MFB: December 1962

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

December 1962

Vol. 29 No. 347

The 300 Spartans
USA - 1962 - 112m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U) (cut)
D: Rudolph Maté

The Amorous Prawn
UK - 1962 - 89m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Anthony Kimmins

Billy Budd
UK - 1962 - 125m - col / scope
Rank (U)
D: Peter Ustinov

Blood of the Warriors
La schiava di Roma
(USA: Slave of Rome)
(aka: Slave Warrior)
Italy - 1960 - 100m - col / scope
Compton-Cameo (A) (cut)
D: Sergio Grieco, Franco Prosperi

The Chapman Report
USA - 1961 - 125m - col
Warner-Pathé (X) (cut)
D: George Cukor

Cleo From 5 to 7
Cléo de 5 a 7
France/Italy - 1961 - 90m - bw and col
Sebricon (A)
D: Agnès Varda

Death Trap
UK - 1962 - 56m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: John Llewellyn Moxey
Series: Urge to Kill (1960, May/1960).

Eruption
Congo vivo
Italy/France - 1961 - 107m - bw
Gala (X)
D: Giuseppe Bennati

Girl on Approval
UK - 1961 - 75m - bw
British Lion / Bryanston (A) (cut)
D: Charles Frend

Hadaka no shima
[see: Island, The]

Hitler
USA - 1961 - 107m - bw
Golden Era (X) (cut)
D: Stuart Heisler

How the West Was Won
USA - 1962 - 155m - col / Cinerama
MGM / Cinerama (U) (cut)
D: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall
7-channel stereo

The Humpbacked Horse
Сказка о Коньке-Горбунке
(USA: The Little Humpbacked Horse)
USSR - 1961 - 90m - col
Curzon (U)
D: Aleksandr Radunsky

L'imprévu
[see: Unexpected]

In Search of the Castaways
UK - 1961 - 100m - col
Walt Disney (U)
D: Robert Stevenson

The Island
裸の島
(USA: The Naked Island)
Japan - 1960 - 92m - bw / scope
Curzon (U)
D: Kaneto Shindō

Island Escape
No Man is an Island
USA - 1962 - 114m - col
Rank / Universal-International (A) (cut)
D: John Monks Jr.

It Started in Tokyo
Twenty Plus Two
USA - 1961 - 102m - bw
Warner-Pathé (U) (cut)
D: Joseph M. Newman

Killing in Monte Carlo
Crimen
(USA: ...And Suddenly It's Murder!)
Italy/France - 1960 - 110m - col / scope
Gala (A)
D: Mario Camerini

Koniok gorbunok
[see: Humpbacked Horse, The]

The Letter That Was Not Sent
Неотправленное письмо
(aka: Letter Never Sent)
(aka: The Unmailed Letter)
USSR - 1959 - 88m - bw
Saxon (A)
D: Mikhail Kalatozov

Live Now Pay Later
(USA: Flight From Treason)
UK - 1962 - 104m - bw
Regal (X) (cut)
D: Jay Lewis

Love for Sale
La tricheuse
(aka: The Cheat)
Belgium - 1960 - 90m - bw
SF (X) (cut)
D: E.G. de Meyst

The Main Attraction
UK - 1962 - 90m - col
MGM (A)
D: Daniel Petrie

The Manchurian Candidate
USA - 1962 - 126m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: John Frankenheimer
Also reviewed: Sep 1988.

Marco Polo
Italy/France - 1961 - 104m - col / scope
Anglo-Amalgamated (U) (cut)
D: Hugo Fregonese

Neotpravlennoe pismo
[see: Letter Never Sent]

The Password is Courage
UK - 1962 - 116m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Andrew L. Stone

The Primitives
UK - 1962 - 70m - bw
Rank (U)
D: Alfred Travers

A Prize of Arms
UK - 1961 - 105m - bw
British Lion / Bryanston (A)
D: Cliff Owen

Reach for Glory
UK - 1961 - 86m - bw
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Philip Leacock

The Savage Guns
USA/Spain - 1961 - 83m - col / scope
MGM (U)
D: Michael Carreras

Sodom and Gomorrah
Sodoma e Gomorra
Italy/France - 1962 - 153m - col
Rank (X) (cut)
D: Robert Aldrich, Sergio Leone

Suicide Pilots
Kamikaze
France/USA - 1960 - 89m - bw
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: Perry Wolff

The Thief of Baghdad
Il ladro di Bagdad
Italy/France/USA - 1960 - 100m - col / scope
MGM (U) (cut)
D: Arthur Lubin, Bruno Vailati

Unexpected
L'imprevisto
France/Italy - 1961 - 105m - bw
Gala (X)
D: Alberto Lattuada

The Vanishing Corporal
Le caporal épinglé
(USA: The Elusive Corporal)
France - 1961 - 106m - bw
Contemporary (A)
D: Jean Renoir

The White Bear
Bialy niedzwiedz
Poland - 1959 - 94m - bw
Contemporary (A)
D: Jerzy Zarzycki

The Wonders of Aladdin
Le meraviglie di Aladino
Italy/France - 1961 - 92m - col / scope
MGM (U)
D: Henry Levin, Mario Bava

The Young and the Cool
The Continental Twist
(aka: Twist All Night)
USA - 1961 - 85m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: William J. Hole Jr., Allan David