Monday 11 July 2016

MFB: January 1967




Monthly Film Bulletin
January 1967
Vol. 34 No. 396



7 Women
USA - 1966 - 87m - col / scope
MGM (X)
D: John Ford

And Now Miguel
USA - 1966 - 95m - col / scope
Rank (U)
D: James Clark

Au Hasard Balthazar
(aka: Balthazar)
France/Sweden - 1966 - 95m - bw
Gala (A)
D: Robert Bresson

Back Door to Hell
USA/Philippines - 1964 - 75m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Monte Hellman

Ballerina
USA - 1965 - 95m - col
Walt Disney (U)
D: Norman Campbell
Two episodes of the TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1961-69), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.

Batman
USA - 1966 - 105m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Leslie H. Martinson

The Brides of Fu Manchu
UK - 1966 - 91m - col
Warner-Pathé / Anglo-Amalgamated (U) (cut)
D: Don Sharp
Series: The Face of Fu Manchu (1965, Nov/1965).

Catacombs
(USA: The Woman Who Wouldn't Die)
UK - 1964 - 90m - bw
British Lion (X)
D: Gordon Hessler

Danger Grows Wild
Poppies Are Also Flowers
(aka: The Opium Connection)
USA/Austria/France - 1966 - 105m - col
British Lion (A)
D: Terence Young

The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones
USA (TV) - 1966 - 83m - col
MGM (A)
D: Alex March

Death is a Woman
(USA: Love is a Woman)
UK - 1966 - 81m - col
Warner-Pathé (X)
D: Frederic Goode

El Greco
France/Italy - 1964 - 94m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Luciano Salce

Fahrenheit 451
UK - 1966 - 112m - col
Rank (A)
D: François Truffaut

Friend of the Family
Patate
France/Italy - 1964 - 94m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Robert Thomas

Gambit
USA - 1966 - 108m - col / scope
Rank (U)
D: Ronald Neame

God's Thunder
Le tonnerre de Dieu
(aka: The Thunder of God)
France/Italy/W.Germany - 1965 - 91m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (X)
D: Denys de La Patellière

Hawaii
USA - 1966 - 186m - col / scope
United Artists (A)
D: George Roy Hill
35mm and 70mm release prints.
Followed by: The Hawaiians (1970, Nov/1970).

Is Paris Burning?
Paris brûle-t-il?
France/USA - 1965 - 175m - bw and col / scope
Paramount (A)
D: René Clément
35mm and 70mm release prints.
6-channel stereo

The Man Called Flintstone
USA - 1966 - 87m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna

Money or Your Life
La bourse et la vie
(USA: Your Money or Your Life)
France/W.Germany/Italy - 1965 - 91m - col
Gala (U)
D: Jean-Pierre Mocky

Munster, Go Home!
USA - 1966 - 96m - col
Rank (U)
D: Earl Bellamy
Followed by: The Munster's Revenge (1981), Here Come the Munsters (1995), The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas (1996).

Palaces of a Queen
UK - 1966 - 80m - col
Rank (U)
D: Michael Ingrams

The Plainsman
USA - 1966 - 92m - col
Rank (U)
D: David Lowell Rich

The Poppy is Also a Flower
[see: Danger Grows Wild]

Press for Time
UK - 1966 - 102m - col
Rank (U)
D: Robert Asher

Promise Her Anything
UK - 1965 - 97m - col
Paramount (A)
D: Arthur Hiller

The Quiller Memorandum
UK - 1966 - 103m - col / scope
Rank (A)
D: Michael Anderson

Return of the Seven
USA - 1966 - 95m - col / scope
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Burt Kennedy
Series: The Magnificent Seven (1960, Apr/1961).

Ride the High Wind
African Gold
S.Africa - 1965 - 90m - col
Butcher's (A)
D: David Millin

The Saragossa Manuscript
Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie
Poland - 1964 - 182m - bw / scope
Contemporary (X)
D: Wojciech Has

Seven Women
[see: 7 Women]

The Sunday of Life
Le dimanche de la vie
France/W.Germany/Italy - 1965 - 100m - bw
Gala (A)
D: Jean Herman

Tarzan and the Valley of Gold
USA/Switzerland - 1966 - 90m - col / scope
Warner-Pathé / Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Robert Day
Followed by: Tarzan and the Great River (1967, Feb/1968), Tarzan and the Jungle Boy (1968, Aug/1968).

Twenty Hours
Húsz óra
Hungary - 1965 - 112m - bw
Contemporary
D: Zoltán Fábri

The Venetian Affair
USA - 1966 - 92m - col / scope
MGM (A)
D: Jerry Thorpe

Wild Youth
Naked Youth
USA - 1961 - 73m - bw
Eagle (X) (cut)
D: John F. Schreyer

The Witches
(USA: The Devil's Own)
UK - 1966 - 91m - col
Warner-Pathé (X)
D: Cyril Frankel

The Young Sinner
Like Father, Like Son
(aka: Among the Thorns)
USA - 1961 - 81m - bw
Eagle (X) (cut)
D: Tom Laughlin
Rejected by the BBFC in 1962 when submitted by Gala as Among the Thorns, then passed with cuts in 1966 as The Young Sinner.

2 comments:

  1. This is brilliant. Looking forward to seeing full archive when finished. V useful to have an MFB index.

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