MFB: February 1968

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

February 1968

Vol. 35 No. 409

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[see: Seventeen]

40 Guns to Apache Pass
USA - 1966 - 95m - col
Columbia (A)
D: William Witney

The Ambushers
USA - 1967 - 102m - col
Columbia (A)
D: Henry Levin
Series: The Silencers (1966, May/1966).

The Anniversary
UK - 1967 - 95m - col
Warner-Pathé (X)
D: Roy Ward Baker

The Champagne Murders
Le scandale
France - 1967 - 107m - col / scope
Rank (X)
D: Claude Chabrol

Custer of the West
USA/Spain - 1966 - 146m - col / Super Technirama 70
Cinerama (U)
D: Robert Siodmak
Some prints screened in 70mm Cinerama.
6-channel stereo

Doctor Dolittle
USA - 1967 - 152m - col / Todd-AO
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Richard Fleischer
6-channel stereo

El
Mexico - 1952 - 91m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Luis Buñuel

Far From Vietnam
Loin du Vietnam
France - 1967 - 115m - bw and col
Contemporary (A) (cut)
D: Alain Resnais, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnès Varda, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard

Five Golden Dragons
UK/W.Germany/Liechtenstein - 1965 - 70m - col / scope
Warner-Pathé / Anglo-Amalgamated (A)
D: Jeremy Summers

Half a Sixpence
UK - 1967 - 146m - col / scope
Paramount (U)
D: George Sidney
35mm and 70mm release prints.
6-channel stereo

Her Private Hell
UK - 1967 - 84m - bw
Richard Schulman (X) (cut)
D: Norman J. Warren

Jeu de massacre
(USA: The Killing Game)
(aka: Comic Strip Hero)
France - 1967 - 95m - col
Antony Balch (X)
D: Alain Jessua

The Man With the Golden Mask
L'uomo che ride
Italy/France - 1965 - 94m - col
MGM (X)
D: Sergio Corbucci

La Marseillaise: Chroniques de quelques faits ayant contribué à la chute de la Monarchie
France - 1937 - 145m - bw
Unity (A) (cut)
D: Jean Renoir
Also reviewed: Apr 1940.

Il mio nome è Pecos
[see: My Name is Pecos]

My Name is Pecos
Due once di piombo
Italy - 1966 - 83m - col / scope
Golden Era (X) (cut)
D: Maurizio Lucidi [as: Maurice A. Bright]

Naked Hearts
Les coeurs verts
France - 1966 - 105m - bw
Contemporary (X)
D: Édouard Luntz

Point Blank
USA - 1967 - 92m - col / scope
MGM (X)
D: John Boorman

Poor Cow
UK - 1967 - 101m - col
Warner-Pathé / Anglo-Amalgamated (X) (cut)
D: Ken Loach

The Second Sin
S.Africa - 1966 - 85m - bw / scope
United Artists (U)
D: David Millin

Seventeen
Sytten
Denmark - 1965 - 88m - col
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Annelise Meineche
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with cuts.

Sex Quartet
Le fate
(USA: The Queens)
Italy/France - 1966 - 110m - col
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Luciano Salce, Mario Monicelli, Mauro Bolognini, Antonio Pietrnageli

Tarzan and the Great River
USA/Switzerland - 1967 - 88m - col / scope
Paramount (U)
D: Robert Day
Series: Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966, Jan/1967).

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
UK - 1967 - 72m - col
Lorimer Films (A)
D: Peter Whitehead

Tony Rome
USA - 1967 - 110m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (X)
D: Gordon Douglas
Followed by: Lady in Cement (1968, Feb/1969).

Valley of the Dolls
USA - 1967 - 123m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (X)
D: Mark Robson
35mm and 70mm release prints.

The Wild, Wild Planet
I criminali della galassia
Italy - 1965 - 93m - col
MGM (X)
D: Antonio Margheriti [as: Anthony M. Dawson]
Followed by: I diafanoidi vengono da Marte (1966), War Between the Planets (1966, Sep/1974), La morte viene dal pianeta Aytin (1967).

Young Dillinger
USA - 1964 - 99m - bw
Warner-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Terry O'Morse