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MFB: May 1963




Monthly Film Bulletin
May 1963
Vol. 30 No. 352



Antigone: A Tragedy by Sophocles
Αντιγόνη
Greece - 1961 - 93m - bw
Gala (U)
D: Yorgos Javellas [as: George Tzavellas]

Arturo's Island
L'isola d'Arturo
Italy - 1962 - 102m - bw
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Damiano Damiani

Behind Closed Doors
A porte chiuse
Italy - 1960 - 103m - bw
Gala (A)
D: Dino Risi

Boccaccio 70
Italy/France - 1962 - 210m - col
20th Century Fox (X)
D: Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, Mario Monicelli

The Brazen Bell
USA - 1962 - 74m - col
Rank (U)
D: James Sheldon
Two episodes of the TV series The Virginian (1962-71), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
Followed by: The Devil's Children (1962, Jun/1963), The Final Hour (1962, Sep/1963), Backtrack! (1969), The Bull of the West (1972), The Meanest Men in the West (1978).

Call Me Bwana
UK - 1962 - 93m - col
Rank (U)
D: Gordon Douglas

Cleopatra's Daughter
Il sepolcro dei re
Italy/France - 1960 - 102m - col / scope
Mondial (A) (cut)
D: Fernando Cerchio





The Cool Mikado
UK - 1962 - 81m - col
United Artists (U)
D: Michael Winner

Courage of Black Beauty
USA - 1957 - 80m - col
E.J. Fancey (U)
D: Harold D. Schuster

The Damned
(USA: These Are the Damned)
UK - 1961 - 87m - bw / scope
Columbia (X)
D: Joseph Losey

The Day of the Triffids
UK - 1962 - 94m - col / scope
Rank (X)
D: Steve Sekely (and Freddie Francis)

Elena
Ηλέκτρα
(USA: Electra)
Greece - 1961 - 113m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Mihalis Kakogiannis [as: Michael Cacoyannis]

Escapade in Florence
USA - 1962 - 80m - col
Walt Disney (U)
D: Steve Previn
Two episodes of the TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1961-69), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.

La espada del Zorro
[see: Zorro]


 



Five Miles to Midnight
Le couteau dans la plaie
France/Italy - 1962 - 110m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Anatole Litvak

The Flight That Disappeared
USA - 1961 - 73m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Reginald Le Borg

The Flying Clipper
Flying Clipper: Traumreise unter weißen Segeln
(USA: Mediterranean Holiday)
W.Germany - 1962 - 165m - col / Superpanorama 70
Rank (U)
D: Hermann Leitner, Rudolf Nussgruber
Some prints screened in 70mm Cinerama.
6-channel stereo

Follow the Boys
USA - 1963 - 95m - col / scope
MGM (U)
D: Richard Thorpe

Fury of the Wastelands
Cimborák: Nádi szélben
Hungary - 1957 - 79m - col
Compton-Cameo (U) (cut)
D: István Homoki Nagy
Followed by: Cimborák: Hegyen-völgyön (1960).

Goliath Against the Giants
Goliath contro i giganti
Italy/France - 1961 - 95m - col / scope
Compton-Cameo (U) (cut)
D: Guido Malatesta




Just for Fun
UK - 1963 - 85m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Gordon Flemyng

Maciste the Mighty
Maciste nella valle dei Re
(USA: Son of Samson)
(aka: Maciste in the Valley of the Kings)
Italy/France/Yugoslavia - 1960 - 95m - col / scope
Panton (A) (cut)
D: Carlo Campogalliani

Madame
Madame Sans-Gêne
France/Italy/Spain - 1962 - 100m - col / Super Technirama 70
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Christian-Jaque
6-channel stereo



 


Maniac
UK - 1962 - 86m - bw / scope
Columbia (X) (cut)
D: Michael Carreras

Masters of Venus
UK - 1962 - 128m - 8 chapters - bw
Children's Film Foundation (U)
D: Ernest Morris

The Mazur File
La peau et les os
(aka: Skin and Bones)
France - 1960 - 92m - bw
Connoisseur (A)
D: Jean-Paul Sassy, Jacques Panijel

The Mighty Warrior
La vendetta di Ursus
(USA: Revenge of Ursus)
Italy - 1961 - 89m - col / scope
Eagle (U)
D: Luigi Capuano
Series: Ursus (1961, Oct/1971).

Nasilje na trgu
[see: Square of Violence]

On the Run
UK - 1962 - 59m - bw
Warner-Pathé / Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Robert Tronson
Series: Urge to Kill (1960, May/1960).

The President
Le président
France/Italy - 1961 - 110m - bw
Gala (U)
D: Henri Verneuil




The Punch and Judy Man
UK - 1962 - 96m - bw
Warner-Pathé (U)
D: Jeremy Summers

Sammy Going South
(USA: A Boy Ten Feet Tall)
UK - 1962 - 128m - col / scope
British Lion / Bryanston / Seven Arts (U)
D: Alexander Mackendrick

Samson
Sansone
Italy - 1961 - 100m - col / scope
Compton-Cameo (U) (cut)
D: Gianfranco Parolini

The Secret Mark of D'Artagnan
Il colpo segreto di d'Artagnan
Italy/France - 1962 - 91m - col / scope
Columbia (U)
D: Siro Marcellino

Seven Seas to Calais
Il dominatore dei sette mari
Italy - 1961 - 101m - col / scope
MGM (U)
D: Rudolph Maté, Primo Zeglio

Son of Spartacus
Il figlio di Spartacus
(USA: The Slave)
Italy - 1962 - 102m - col / scope
MGM (A)
D: Sergio Corbucci

Square of Violence
USA/Yugoslavia - 1961 - 120m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Leonardo Bercovici

Stampede at Bitter Creek
USA - 1959 - 81m - col
Walt Disney (U)
D: Harry Keller
Two episodes of the TV series Walt Disney Presents (1958-61), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
Series: Texas John Slaughter (1958, May/1960).



Flipper: MFB Aug 1963


Take Off Your Clothes and Live
UK - 1962 - 64m - col / scope
Miracle (A)
D: Arnold Louis Miller

Taras Bulba
USA - 1962 - 124m - col / scope
United Artists (U)
D: J. Lee Thompson
35mm and 70mm release prints.

That Kind of Girl
(aka: Teenage Tramp)
UK - 1963 - 77m - bw
Compton-Cameo (X) (cut)
D: Gerry O'Hara

This Crazy Urge
La voglia matta
(USA: Crazy Desire)
Italy - 1962 - 105m - bw / scope
Miracle (A)
D: Luciano Salce

To Kill a Mockingbird
USA - 1962 - 129m - bw
Rank (A)
D: Robert Mulligan

Two for the Seesaw
USA - 1962 - 119m - bw / scope
United Artists (X)
D: Robert Wise

Ursus in the Valley of the Lions
Ursus nella valle dei leoni
Italy - 1961 - 93m - col / scope
Golden Era (U) (cut)
D: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
Series: Ursus (1961, Oct/1971).

The Wrong Arm of the Law
UK - 1962 - 94m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Cliff Owen

Zorro
La venganza del Zorro
(USA: Zorro the Avenger)
Spain/France - 1961 - 90m - col / scope
Sebricon (U)
D: Joaquím Luis Romero Marchent

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