MFB: May 1971

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

May 1971

Vol. 38 No. 448

Arthur Penn, 1922 -: Themes and Variants
USA (TV) - 1970 - 86m - col
BFI
D: Robert Hughes

Ballad
Sweden - 1968 - 82m - bw
Cinecenta
D: Cösta Ågren

The Barefoot Executive
USA - 1970 - 96m - col
Walt Disney (U)
D: Robert Butler

Black Beauty
UK - 1971 - 106m - col
Tigon (U)
D: James Hill

Bloody Mama
USA - 1969 - 90m - col
MGM-EMI (X) (cut)
D: Roger Corman
Initially rejected by the BBFC when submitted by Anglo-Amalgamated, then passed with cuts.

Blushing Charlie
Lyckliga skitar
Sweden - 1970 - 119m - col
Miracle (X) (cut)
D: Vilgot Sjöman

Bongo Wolf's Revenge
USA - 1970 - 72m - bw
Fair Enterprises
D: Tom Baker

The Brno Trail
Táňa a dva pistolníci
(USA: Lost in Pajamas)
Czechoslovakia - 1967 - 63m - bw
Children's Film Foundation (U)
D: Radim Cvrcek

Creatures the World Forgot
UK - 1970 - 95m - col
Columbia (X)
D: Don Chaffey

Deadwood '76
USA - 1965 - 97m - col / scope
Ember (A)
D: James Landis

Egghead's Robot
UK - 1970 - 56m - col
Children's Film Foundation (U)
D: Milo Lewis
Series: The Troublesome Double (1967, Sep/1972).

For Singles Only
USA - 1967 - 90m - col
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Arthur Dreifuss

Frankenstein on Campus
Flick
(USA: Dr. Frankenstein on Campus)
Canada - 1970 - 81m - col
Target (X)
D: Gilbert W. Taylor

From Nashville With Music
(aka: City Slickers at the Opry)
USA - 1969 - 110m/87m - col
Ember (U)
D: Eddie Crandall, Robert Patrick

Hands off Gretel!
Hänsel und Gretel verliefen sich im Wald
(USA: The Naked Wytche)
(aka: The Erotic Adventures of Hansel and Gretel)
W.Germany - 1970 - 82m - col
New Realm (X) (cut)
D: Franz Josef Gottlieb
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with cuts.

His Wife's Lover
USA - 1931 - 82m - bw
Orb (A)
D: Sidney M. Goldin

Husbands
USA - 1970 - 154m - col
Columbia (X)
D: John Cassavetes

I Had My Brother's Wife
Susuz yaz
(USA: Reflections)
(aka: Dry Summer)
(aka: Waterless Summer)
Turkey - 1964 - 84m - bw
SF (X) (cut)
D: Ismail Metin, David E. Durston

I'm an Elephant, Madam
Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame
W.Germany - 1970 - 100m - col
Academy / Connoisseur (X)
D: Peter Zadek

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogno sospetto
Italy - 1970 - 115m - col
Columbia (X) (cut)
D: Elio Petri

The Invincible Six
(aka: The Heroes)
USA/Iran - 1968 - 103m - col / scope
Paramount (AA) (cut)
D: Jean Negulesco

Junket 89
UK - 1970 - 56m - col
Children's Film Foundation (U)
D: Peter Plummer

Kona Coast
USA - 1967 - 80m - col
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Lamont Johnson

Love and Anger
Amore e rabbia
(aka: Vangelo 70)
Italy/France - 1969 - 102m - col / scope
Miracle (X)
D: Marco Bellocchio, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Luc Godard, Carlo Lizzani, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Elda Tattoli

Love in a 4 Letter World
(aka: Sex Isn't Sin)
Canada - 1970 - 93m - col
Richard Schulman (X) (cut)
D: John Sole

Love Me, Baby, Love Me
Una storia d'amore
(aka: Erotic Story)
Italy - 1969 - 102m - col / scope
E.J. Fancey (X)
D: Michele Lupo

The McKenzie Break
UK - 1970 - 106m - col
United Artists (AA)
D: Lamont Johnson

The McMasters
USA - 1970 - 90m - col
London Screen (X)
D: Alf Kjellin

Melody
(aka: S.W.A.L.K.)
UK - 1971 - 107m - col
British Lion (A)
D: Waris Hussein

My Swedish Meatball
Spielst Du mit schrägen Vögeln
(aka: If You Play With Crazy Birds)
W.Germany - 1968 - 93m - col
E.J. Fancey (X)
D: Gustav Ehmck

Portraits of Women
Naisenkuvia
Finland - 1969 - 90m - col
Target (X)
D: Jörn Donner

Sabata
Ehi, amico... c'è Sabata, hai chiuso!
Italy - 1969 - 106m - col / scope
United Artists (AA)
D: Gianfranco Parolini [as: Frank Kramer]
Followed by: The Bounty Hunters (1970, Mar/1973), Return of Sabata (1971, Dec/1973).

Scramble
UK - 1970 - 61m - col
Children's Film Foundation (U)
D: David Eady

The Sextrovert
Désirella
France - 1970 - 90m - col
SF (X) (cut)
D: Jean-Claude Dague

Soldier Blue
USA - 1970 - 114m - col / scope
Avco Embassy (X) (cut)
D: Ralph Nelson

Take Me, Love Me
Nana
Sweden/France - 1970 - 110m - col
Miracle (X) (cut)
D: Mac Ahlberg

A Touch of the Other
(USA: The Happy Hookers)
(aka: House of Hookers)
UK - 1970 - 92m - col
Queensway (X) (cut)
D: Arnold Louis Miller

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Valerie a týden divů
Czechoslovakia - 1969 - 77m - col
Contemporary (X)
D: Jaromil Jires

White Comanche
Comanche blanco
(aka: Rio Hondo)
Spain - 1968 - 92m - col
Rank (A) (cut)
D: José Briz Méndez

The Wild Country
USA - 1970 - 100m - col
Walt Disney (U)
D: Robert Totten

Zachariah
USA - 1970 - 93m - col
Cinerama (AA)
D: George Englund

Zen Weib's Liebenik
[see: His Wife's Lover]

Zeppelin
UK - 1971 - 97m - col / scope
Warner (U)
D: Etienne Périer

MFB: April 1971

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

April 1971

Vol. 38 No. 447

A.K.A. Cassius Clay
USA - 1970 - 80m - col
United Artists (U)
D: Jim Jacobs

Bartleby
UK - 1970 - 79m - col
British Lion (A)
D: Anthony Friedmann

The Battle of Algiers
La bataille d'Alger
France/Italy - 1965 - 135m - bw
Rank (X)
D: Gillo Pontecorvo

Bedroom Mazurka
Mazurka på sengekanten
Denmark - 1970 - 92m - col
Gala (X) (cut)
D: John Hilbard
Followed by: Danish Dentist on the Job (1971, Dec/1972), Danish Bed and Board (1972, Jul/1973), Highway Through the Bedroom (1972, Jun/1976), Danish Pillow Talk (1973, Apr/1975), Der ma være en sengekant (1975), Danish Escort Girls (1976, Apr/1977), Sømænd på sengekanten (1976).

A Boy Called Charlie Brown
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
USA - 1969 - 86m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Bill Melendez
Followed by: Snoopy, Come Home (1972, Aug/1972), Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977, Dec/1977), Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) (1980).

Cauldron of Blood
El coleccionista de cadáveres
(USA: Blind Man's Bluff)
Spain/USA - 1967 - 97m - col
Tigon (X)
D: Santos Alcocer

Country Dance
(USA: Brotherly Love)
UK - 1969 - 112m - col
MGM-EMI (X)
D: J. Lee Thompson

Dad's Army
UK - 1971 - 95m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Norman Cohen

Death by Hanging
絞死刑
Japan - 1968 - 117m - bw
Academy / Connoisseur (X)
D: Nagisa Ōshima

Death in Venice
Morte a Venezia
Italy/UK - 1971 - 128m - col / scope
Warner (AA)
D: Luchino Visconti

Deep End
UK/W.Germany - 1970 - 88m - col
Connoisseur (X)
D: Jerzy Skolimowski

The Erotic Three
Scratch Harry
USA - 1969 - 94m - col
Grand National (X)
D: Alex Matter

Five Easy Pieces
USA - 1970 - 98m - col
Columbia (AA)
D: Bob Rafelson

Get Carter
UK - 1971 - 112m - col
MGM-EMI (X) (cut)
D: Mike Hodges

The Great White Hope
USA - 1970 - 103m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (AA)
D: Martin Ritt

Highway Pickup
Chair de poule
France/Italy - 1963 - 110m - col
Gala (AA)
D: Julien Duvivier

Hotel Paradiso
UK - 1966 - 99m - col / scope
MGM-EMI (A)
D: Peter Glenville

House of Pleasure
Frau Wirtin hat auch eine Nichte
W.Germany/Austria/Italy/Hungary - 1968 - 98m - col
Miracle (X) (cut)
D: Franz Antel [as: François Legrand]
Series: The Sweet Sins of Sexy Susan (1967, Oct/1968).

Jane Eyre
UK - 1970 - 110m - col
British Lion (A)
D: Delbert Mann

Joe
USA - 1970 - 107m - col
British Lion (X) (cut)
D: John G. Avildsen

Koshikei
[see: Death by Hanging]

The Last Escape
USA - 1969 - 90m - col
United Artists (U)
D: Walter Grauman

The Last Valley
USA - 1970 - 129m - col / Todd-AO
Cinerama (AA) (cut)
D: James Clavell
6-channel stereo

Lawman
USA - 1970 - 99m - col
United Artists (AA) (cut)
D: Michael Winner

Little Big Man
USA - 1970 - 147m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (AA)
D: Arthur Penn

Love Story
USA - 1970 - 100m - col
Paramount (AA)
D: Arthur Hiller
Followed by: Oliver's Story (1978, Jul/1979).

The Nympho
Andrea - Wie ein Blatt auf nackter Haut
(USA: Andrea)
(aka: Andrea the Nympho)
W.Germany - 1968 - 90m - col
Grand National (X) (cut)
D: Hans Schott-Schöbinger
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with cuts.

One Brief Summer
UK - 1969 - 86m - col
20th Century Fox (AA)
D: John Mackenzie

La oromesse de l'aube
[see: Promise at Dawn]

The Owl and the Pussycat
USA - 1970 - 96m - col / scope
Columbia (X)
D: Herbert Ross

The Priest's Wife
La moglie del prete
Italy/France - 1970 - 106m - col
Warner (A)
D: Dino Risi

Promise at Dawn
USA/France - 1970 - 102m - col
Avco Embassy (A)
D: Juiles Dassin

Reggae
UK - 1970 - 60m - col
Contemporary (U)
D: Horace Ove

La révélateur
France - 1968 - 68m - bw
Polit Kino
D: Philippe Garrel

Simon the Swiss
Le voyou
(USA: The Crook)
France/Italy - 1970 - 120m - col
United Artists (A)
D: Claude Lelouch

Snow White
Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge
(aka: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
W.Germany - 1955 - 76m - col
London Screen (U)
D: Erich Kobler

Subterfuge
UK - 1968 - 86m - col
Rank (AA)
D: Peter Graham Scott

Sympathy for the Devil
(aka: One Plus One)
UK - 1968 - 111m - col
Connoisseur (X) (cut)
D: Jean-Luc Godard

Tales of Beatrix Potter
UK - 1971 - 90m - col
MGM-EMI (U)
D: Reginald Mills

Tell Me That You Love Me, Julie Moon
USA - 1969 - 113m - col
Paramount (X) (cut)
D: Otto Preminger

They Call Us Misfits
Dom kallar oss mods
Sweden - 1967 - 101m - bw
Polit Kino
D: Jan Lindqvist, Stefan Jarl

Up Pompeii
UK - 1971 - 90m - col
MGM-EMI (AA)
D: Bob Kellett
Followed by: Up the Chastity Belt (1971, Jan/1972), Up the Front (1972, Oct/1972).

The Wanderer
Le grand meaulnes
France - 1967 - 115m - col / scope
Fair Enterprises (A)
D: Jean-Gabriel Albicocco

When Eight Bells Toll
UK - 1971 - 94m - col / scope
Rank (A)
D: Etienne Périer

Wild, Willing and Sexy
Liebe durch die Hintertür
(USA: Naughty Roommates)
W.Germany/Austria - 1969 - 88m - col / scope
SF (X) (cut)
D: Franz Antel

MFB: March 1971

Introduction for newcomers

The Beast in the Cellar: Jul 1971

Monthly Film Bulletin

March 1971

Vol. 38 No. 446

5 for Hell
5 per l'inferno
Italy - 1968 - 90m - col / scope
E.J. Fancey (A)
D: Gianfranco Parolini [as: Frank Kramer]

Again
Las trompetas del apocalipsis
(USA: Murder by Music)
(aka: Perversion Story)
(aka: Trumpet of the Apocalypse)
Spain/Italy - 1969 - 93m - col / scope
E.J. Fancey (X)
D: Julio Buchs

All About Women
À propos de la femme
France/Canada - 1969 - 83m - col
Richard Schulman (X)
D: Claude Pierson

Alyse and Chloe
Alyse et Chloé
France - 1970 - 95m - col
SF (X) (cut)
D: René Gainville

Arthur Rubinstein: L'amour de la vie
[see: Love of Life]

Assault
(USA: In the Devil's Garden)
(aka: The Creepers)
(aka: Molested)
(aka: Satan's Playthings)
(aka: Tower of Terror)
UK - 1970 - 91m - col
Rank (X)
D: Sidney Hayers

The Awful Story of the Nun of Monza
La monaca di Monza
(USA: The Lady of Monza)
Italy - 1969 - 105m - col
Miracle (X) (cut)
D: Eriprando Visconti

The Ballad of Cable Hogue
USA - 1970 - 121m - col
Warner (AA)
D: Sam Peckinpah

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
USA - 1970 - 109m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (X) (cut)
D: Russ Meyer

Blood on Satan's Claw
(aka: Satan's Skin)
UK - 1970 - 93m - col
Tigon (X) (cut)
D: Piers Haggard
Previewed as Satan's Skin before going wide as Blood on Satan's Claw. In recent years, all TV and video prints have featured the on-screen title The Blood on Satan's Claw.

I caldi amori di una minorenne
[see: Again]

Cherry, Harry & Raquel!
USA - 1969 - 71m - col
Cinecenta (X) (cut)
D: Russ Meyer

Cinque per l'inferno
[see: 5 for Hell]

Come Back Peter
(aka: Afternoon Delight)
(aka: Model Girl)
(aka: Peter's Pets)
(aka: Seducer)
(aka: Some Like It Sexy)
(aka: Twins)
UK - 1969 - 74m - col
Richard Schulman (X) (cut)
D: Donovan Winter

Countess Dracula
UK - 1970 - 93m - col
Rank (X) (cut)
D: Peter Sasdy

Darker Than Amber
USA - 1970 - 96m - col
20th Century Fox (AA) (cut)
D: Robert Clouse

End of the Dialogue
Phela-ndaba
S.Africa - 1970 - 50m - bw and col
Contemporary (U)
D: [uncredited]

Erotissimo
France/Italy - 1968 - 100m - col
Contemporary (X)
D: Gérard Pirès

Five for Hell
[see: 5 for Hell]

Games That Lovers Play
(USA: Lady Chatterly vs. Fanny Hill)
UK - 1970 - 91m - col
Border (X) (cut)
D: Malcolm Leigh

The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
Tenderly
Italy - 1968 - 104m - col / scope
London Screen (AA)
D: Franco Brusati

Hell's Belles
(aka: Boston Warriors)
USA - 1969 - 95m - col
MGM-EMI (X) (cut)
D: Maury Dexter

Hornets' Nest
(aka: The Valour of War)
USA - 1970 - 109m - col
United Artists (AA)
D: Phil Karlson

The House That Dripped Blood
UK - 1970 - 102m - col
Cinerama (X)
D: Peter Duffell

Jenny
USA - 1969 - 89m - col
Cinerama (AA)
D: George Bloomfield

Joan
Carry It On
USA - 1970 - 84m - bw
Fair Enterprises (U)
D: James Coyne, Robert Jones, Christopher Knight

The Landlord
USA - 1970 - 110m - col
United Artists (X)
D: Hal Ashby

Language of Love
Ur kärlekens språk
Sweden - 1969 - 107m - col
Darville (banned)
D: Torgny Wickman
Followed by: More About the Language of Love (1970, Aug/1974 + Apr/1983), Kärlekens XYZ (1971), Love Play: That's How We Do It (Kär-lek, så gör vi: Brev till Inge och Sten, 1972).

Love of Life
L'amour de la vie: Artur Rubinstein
France - 1968 - 93m - col
Rank (U)
D: François Reichenbach, Gérard Patris

Love 65
Kärlek 65
Sweden - 1965 - 95m - bw
Anthony Morris (X)
D: Bo Widerberg

Loving Feeling
UK - 1968 - 82m - col / scope
Richard Schulman (X)
D: Norman J. Warren

Mrs. Pollifax: Spy
USA - 1970 - 110m - col
United Artists (U)
D: Leslie H. Martinson

The Music Lovers
UK - 1970 - 123m - col / scope
United Artists (X)
D: Ken Russell
35mm and 70mm release prints.
6-channel stereo

Myra Breckenridge
USA - 1970 - 94m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (X) (cut)
D: Michael Sarne

Necropolis
Italy - 1970 - 120m - col
The Other Cinema
D: Franco Brocani

One Fine Day
Un certo giorno
Italy - 1969 - 102m - col
Academy (A)
D: Ermanno Olmi

One on Top of the Other
L'una sull'altra
(USA: Perversion Story)
(aka: Hot to Trot)
Italy/France/Spain - 1969 - 107m - col
Border (X) (cut)
D: Lucio Fulci
35mm and 70mm release prints.

Percy
UK - 1971 - 103m - col
MGM-EMI (X)
D: Ralph Thomas
Followed by: Percy's Progress (1974, Sep/1974).

Port of Desire
Le quai du désir
France - 1969 - 91m - col
Golden Era (X)
D: Jean Maley

The Revolutionary
USA - 1970 - 101m - col
United Artists (AA) (cut)
D: Paul Williams

Rider on the Rain
La passager de la pluie
France/Italy - 1969 - 119m - col
Avco Embassy (AA) (cut)
D: René Clément

A Severed Head
UK - 1970 - 98m - col
Columbia (X)
D: Dick Clement

The Statue
USA - 1970 - 89m - col
Cinerama (X)
D: Rod Amateau

Sunday in the Park
UK - 1970 - 52m - col
British Lion (U)
D: Donovan Winter

Tar Babies
Fando y Lis
(USA: Fando and Lis)
Mexico - 1968 - 98m - bw
New Cinema Presentations (X)
D: Alejandro Jodorowsky

They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
USA - 1970 - 108m - col
United Artists (AA)
D: Gordon Douglas
Series: In the Heat of the Night (1967, Oct/1967).

To Commit a Murder
Peau d'espion
France/W.Germany/Italy - 1967 - 93m - col
Cinerama (AA) (cut)
D: Edouard Molinaro

The Tragic Diary of Zero the Fool
Canada - 1969 - 75m - bw
New Cinema Presentations
D: Morley Markson

Wanda
USA - 1970 - 100m - col
Academy / Connoisseur (AA)
D: Barbara Loden

Without a Stitch
Uden in trævl
(aka: Without a Stitch of Clothing)
Denmark - 1968 - 89m - col
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Annelise Meineche
Rejected by the BBFC in 1969, then passed with cuts in 1975.

You Can't Have Everything
Cactus in the Snow
USA - 1970 - 90m - col
London Screen (X) (cut)
D: A. Martin Zweiback

Zeta One
(USA: The Love Factor)
UK - 1969 - 82m - col
Tigon (X) (cut)
D: Michael Cort