MFB: October 1964

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

October 1964

Vol. 31 No. 369

Battle of the Spartans
Brenno: Il nemico di Roma
(USA: Brennus: Enemy of Rome)
(aka: Battle of the Valiant)
Italy - 1963 - 93m - col / scope
Regal (U)
D: Giacomo Gentilomo

The Best Man
USA - 1964 - 104m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Franklin J. Schaffner

The Comedy Man
UK - 1963 - 92m - bw
British Lion (X) (cut)
D: Alvin Rakoff

The Crawling Hand
USA - 1963 - 88m - bw
Regal (X) (cut)
D: Herbert L. Strock

The Curse of the Living Corpse
USA - 1963 - 78m - bw
20th Century Fox (X) (cut)
D: Del Tenney
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with cuts.

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
UK - 1964 - 80m - col / scope
Columbia (X)
D: Michael Carreras
Series: The Mummy (1959, Sep/1959).

Five Have a Mystery to Solve
UK - 1964 - 96m - 6 chapters - bw
Children's Film Foundation (U)
D: Ernest Morris

Flipper and the Pirates
Flipper's New Adventure
USA - 1964 - 98m - col
MGM (U)
D: Leon Benson
Series: Flipper (1963, Aug/1963).

The Goddess
Devi
দেবী
India - 1960 - 93m - bw
Contemporary (A)
D: Satyajit Ray

Goliath and the Vampires
Maciste contro il vampiro
Italy - 1961 - 92m - col / scope
Gala / Miracle (X) (cut)
D: Giacomo Gentilomo, Sergio Corbucci

The Gorgon
UK - 1964 - 83m - col
Columbia (X) (cut)
D: Terence Fisher

Guns at Batasi
UK - 1964 - 103m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (A)
D: John Guillermin

The Haunted and the Hunted
Dementia 13
USA - 1963 - 81m - bw
Regal (X) (cut)
D: Francis Ford Coppola

The Horror of Party Beach
USA - 1963 - 72m - bw
20th Century Fox (X) (cut)
D: Del Tenney
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with cuts.

Love at Twenty
L'amour à 20 ans
France/W.Germany/Italy/Japan/Poland - 1962 - 123m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (X)
D: Shintarō Ishihara, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini, François Truffaut, Andrzej Wajda
One of the stories in this anthology feature, Antoine et Colette (1962), was subsequently issued as a separate item in its own right. See also: The 400 Blows (1959, Apr/1960).

Love With the Proper Stranger
USA - 1963 - 102m - bw
Paramount (X)
D: Robert Mulligan

Naked Among Wolves
Nackt unter Wölfen
E.Germany - 1963 - 116m - bw / scope
Contemporary (A)
D: Frank Beyer

The Night of the Iguana
USA - 1964 - 118m - bw
MGM (X)
D: John Huston

Of Human Bondage
UK - 1963 - 99m - bw
MGM (X) (cut)
D: Ken Hughes, Henry Hathaway (and Bryan Forbes)

Phantom Lovers
Fantasmi a Roma
(USA: Ghosts of Rome)
Italy - 1961 - 101m - col
Gala (A)
D: Antonio Pietrangeli

Rattle of a Simple Man
UK - 1964 - 95m - bw
Warner-Pathé (X) (cut)
D: Muriel Box

Too Young for Love
Zu jung für die Liebe?
W.Germany - 1961 - 93m - bw
Gala (X)
D: Erica Balqué, Helmut Käutner

Wheel of Fire
Fuego
(USA: Pyro... The Thing Without a Face)
Spain/USA - 1963 - 99m - col
Paramount (X) (cut)
D: Julio Coll

Wild and Wonderful
USA - 1963 - 87m - col
Rank (U)
D: Michael Anderson

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Ieri oggi domani
Italy/France - 1963 - 119m - col / scope
Paramount (X)
D: Vittorio De Sica