MFB: July 1961

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

July 1961

Vol. 28 No. 330

A bout de souffle
(aka: Breathless)
France - 1959 - 90m - bw
British Lion (X)
D: Jean-Luc Godard
Also reviewed:  Aug 1988.

The AbsentMinded Professor
USA - 1960 - 97m - col
Walt Disney (U)
D: Robert Stevenson
Followed by: Son of Flubber (1962, Apr/1963).

Assassinos
[see: Assassins in the Sun]

Assassins in the Sun
Mãos Sangrentas
(USA: The Violent and the Damned)
Brazil/Argentina - 1955 - 92m - bw
Compton (X)
D: Carlos Hugo Christensen

Boulevard
France - 1960 - 95m - bw
Gala (A) (cut)
D: Julien Duvivier

The Crossing of the Rhine
Le passage du Rhin
(USA: Tomorrow is My Turn)
France/Italy/W.Germany - 1960 - 125m - bw
Mondial (A)
D: André Cayatte

Don't Bother to Knock
(USA: Why Bother to Knock)
UK - 1961 - 89m - col / scope
Warner-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Cyril Frankel
4-channel stereo

A Fever in the Blood
USA - 1960 - 117m - bw
Warner-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Vincent Sherman

Flame in the Streets
UK - 1961 - 93m - col / scope
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Roy Ward Baker

The Gold of the Seven Saints
USA - 1961 - 89m - bw / scope
Warner-Pathé (U) (cut)
D: Gordon Douglas

Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog
UK - 1960 - 91m - col
Walt Disney (U)
D: Don Chaffey

Heym hayu Assara
[see: They Were Ten]

L'île aux femmes nues
(USA: Naked in the Wind)
France - 1952 - 95m - bw
Mondial (A) (cut)
D: Henri Lepage

Look in Any Window
USA - 1960 - 87m - bw
Warner-Pathé (X) (cut)
D: William Alland

The Misfits

USA - 1960 - 125m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: John Huston

One-Eyed Jacks
USA - 1960 - 141m - col / VistaVision
Paramount (A)
D: Marlon Brando

Oriental Nights
Orientalische Nächte
W.Germany - 1960 - 86m - bw
Gala (A) (cut)
D: Heinz Paul

Look in Any Window

Out of the Shadow

Out of the Shadow
(USA: Murder on the Campus)
UK - 1961 - 61m - bw
New Realm (U)
D: Michael Winner

Parrish
USA - 1960 - 140m - col
Warner-Pathé (A)
D: Delmer Daves

Plein soleil
(USA: Purple Noon)
(aka: Blazing Sun)
(aka: Lust for Evil)
France/Italy - 1959 - 118m - col
Hillcrest (A)
D: René Clément
Also reviewed: Sep 1997.

Portrait of a Mobster
USA - 1961 - 108m - bw
Warner-Pathé (X) (cut)
D: Joseph Pevney

Some Like It Cool

A Raisin in the Sun
USA - 1961 - 128m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Daniel Petrie

Romanoff and Juliet
USA - 1961 - 103m - col
Rank (U)
D: Peter Ustinov

The Secret Partner
UK - 1961 - 91m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Basil Dearden

The Silent Call
USA - 1961 - 63m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: John A. Bushelman

So Evil, So Young
UK - 1961 - 77m - col
United Artists (A)
D: Godfrey Grayson

Some Like It Cool
UK - 1960 - 61m - col
SF (A) (cut)
D: Michael Winner

The Virgin Spring

Soroko-vorovka
[see: Thieving Magpie, The]

Spare the Rod
UK - 1961 - 93m - bw
British Lion / Bryanston (A) (cut)
D: Leslie Norman

Sunrise at Campobello
USA - 1960 - 144m - col
Warner-Pathé (U)
D: Vincent J. Donehue

Tarnished Heroes
UK - 1961 - 75m - bw
Warner-Pathé (U)
D: Ernest Morris

They Were Ten
הם היו עשרה
Israel - 1960 - 105m - bw
Contemporary (A)
D: Baruch Dienar

The Thieving Magpie
Сорока-воровка
(aka: The Magpie)
USSR - 1958 - 85m - bw
Cross-Channel / Plato (A)
D: Naum Trakhtenberg

The Virgin Spring
Jungfrukällan
Sweden - 1959 - 87m - bw
Curzon (X) (cut)
D: Ingmar Bergman

V tvoikh rukah zhizn
[see: Your Life is In Their Hands]

The White Warrior
Agi Murad: Il diavolo bianco
Italy/Yugoslavia - 1958 - 91m - col / scope
Warner-Pathé (U) (cut)
D: Riccardo Freda [as: Robert Hampton]

The Wizard of Baghdad
USA - 1960 - 92m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: George Sherman

Your Life is In Their Hands
В твоих руках жизнь
(USA: Life in Your Hands)
USSR - 1959 - 91m - bw
Cross-Channel / Plato (A)
D: Nikolai Rosantsev