MFB: December 1966

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

December 1966

Vol. 33 No. 395

Ambush at Devil's Gap
UK - 1966 - 95m - 6 episodes - bw
Children's Film Foundation (U)
D: David Eastman

The Boy Cried Murder
UK/W.Germany/Yugoslavia - 1965 - 86m - col
United Artists (A)
D: George P. Breakston

Chamber of Horrors
USA - 1966 - 100m - col
Warner-Pathé (X)
D: Hy Averback

Crazy Paradise
Det tossede paradis
(USA: Once Upon an Island)
Denmark - 1962 - 104m - col
Sebricon (X) (cut)
D: Gabriel Axel

The Cry
Křik
Czechoslovakia - 1963 - 80m - bw
Contemporary
D: Jaromil Jires

Georgy Girl
UK - 1966 - 99m - bw
Columbia (X)
D: Silvio Narizzano

Guns for the Dictator
L'arme à gauche
(USA: The Dictator's Guns)
France/Spain/Italy - 1964 - 103m - bw
DUK (A)
D: Claude Sautet

I Deal in Danger
USA - 1966 - 89m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Walter Grauman
Three episodes of the TV series Blue Light (1966), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.

The Invincible Gladiator
Il gladiatore invincibile
Italy/Spain - 1961 - 105m - col / scope
Gala (U)
D: Antonio Momplet [as: Anthony Momplet], Alberto De Martino

Lilith
USA - 1964 - 116m - bw
Columbia (X)
D: Robert Rossen
Also reviewed: MFB Jan 1986.

No Tears for a KIller
Tecnica di un omicidio
(USA: Hired Killer)
Italy/France - 1965 - 105m - col / scope
Butcher's (A)
D: Francesco Prosperi [as: Frank Shannon]

Not With My Wife, You Don't!
USA - 1966 - 119m - col
Warner-Pathé (A)
D: Norman Panama

One Million Years B.C,
UK - 1966 - 100m - col
Warner-Pathé (A)
D: Don Chaffey

Onibaba
鬼婆
(aka: The Hole)
Japan - 1964 - 105m - bw / scope
Orb (X) (cut)
D: Kaneto Shindō
Rejected by the BBFC in 1965, then passed with cuts in 1968. The uncut version was finally 'approved' for video in 1994.

The Pawnbroker
USA - 1964 - 115m - bw
Planet (X)
D: Sidney Lumet

Poison
Gift
(USA: Venom)
Denmark - 1966 - 98m - bw
Antony Balch (X) (cut)
D: Knud Leif Thomsen

Rage
USA/Mexico - 1966 - 103m - col
Columbia (X)
D: Gilberto Gazcón

The Round-Up
Szegénylegények
Hungary - 1965 - 94m - bw / scope
Contemporary (X)
D: Miklós Jancso

Seconds
USA - 1966 - 105m - bw
Paramount (X) (cut)
D: John Frankenheimer

Shadow of Evil
Banco à Bangkok pour OSS 117
(USA: Panic in Bangkok)
France/Italy - 1964 - 115m - col / scope
Gala (U)
D: André Hunebelle
Series: O.S.S. is Not Dead (1956, Jan/1960).

Shell Shock
(aka: 82nd Marines Attack)
USA - 1963 - 85m - bw
Grand National (A)
D: John Hayes

Southwest to Sonora
The Appaloosa
USA - 1966 - 98m - col / scope
Rank (A)
D: Sidney J. Furie

A Thousand Clowns
USA - 1965 - 115m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Fred Coe

Three on a Couch
USA - 1966 - 109m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Jerry Lewis

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
USA - 1966 - 115m - col / scope
United Artists (A)
D: Blake Edwards

Where the Bullets Fly
UK - 1966 - 90m - col
Golden Era (A) (cut)
D: John Gilling
Series: Licensed to Kill (1965, Sep/1965).

Who Killed the Cat?
UK - 1966 - 76m - bw
Grand National (U)
D: Montgomery Tully

Winter A-Go-Go
USA - 1965 - 87m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Richard Benedict

The Young Warriors
(aka: Eagle Warriors)
USA - 1966 - 93m - col / scope
Rank (A) (cut)
D: John Peyser