MFB: December 1972

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

December 1972

Vol. 39 No. 467

Blue Sextet
USA - 1969 - 90m - col
Grand National (X) (cut)
D: David E. Durston

The Breach
La rupture
(aka: The Break Up)
(aka: Hallucination)
France/Italy/Belgium - 1970 - 125m - col
Connoisseur / Contemporary (X)
D: Claude Chabrol

The Children's Theatre of John Donahue
USA - 1971 - 55m - bw
Fair Enterprises
D: D.A. Pennebaker

Compañeras and Compañeros
USA - 1970 - 80m - col
The Other Cinema
D: Adolfas Mekas, Barbara Stone, David C. Stone

The Cross and the Switchblade
USA - 1970 - 105m - col
20th Century Fox (AA)
D: Don Murray

Danish Dentist on the Job
Tandlaege på sengekanten
(USA: Bedside Dentist)
Denmark - 1971 - 102m - col
Gala (X) (cut)
D: John Hilbard
Series: Bedroom Mazurka (1970, Apr/1971).

Dead Men Ride
Il sole sotto terra
(aka: At the End of the Rainbow)
Italy/Spain - 1971 - 101m - col / scope
British Lion (X) (cut)
D: Aldo Florio

Death of a Bureaucrat
La muerte de un burócrata
Cuba - 1966 - 84m - bw
Contemporary
D: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Eldridge Cleaver
(USA: Eldridge Cleaver: Black Panther)
France/Algeria - 1970 - 71m - col
VPS
D: William Klein

etcetcetc...
UK - 1972 - 83m - col
Cobra-1
D: [uncredited]

Fellini's Roma
[see: Roma]

The First Charge of the Machete
La primera carga al machete
Cuba - 1968 - 84m - bw
Contemporary
D: Manuel Octavio Gómez

Five Fingers of Death
[see: King Boxer]

The Flesh and Blood Show
UK - 1972 - 96m - col / 3-D sequence
Tigon (X)
D: Pete Walker

The Glass House
USA (TV) - 1972 - 91m - col
Scotia-Barber (X)
D: Tom Gries

Jeremiah Johnson
USA - 1972 - 108m - col / scope
Columbia-Warner (A)
D: Sydney Pollack
35mm and 70mm release prints.
6-channel stereo

Kansas City Bomber
USA - 1972 - 99m - col
MGM-EMI (AA)
D: Jerrold Freedman

King Boxer
天下第一拳
(USA: 5 Fingers of Death)
(aka: Hand of Death)
(aka: Invincible Boxer)
(aka: An Iron Man)
Hong Kong/S.Korea - 1972 - 105m - col / scope
Lemar (X) (cut)
D: Jeng Cheong-woh [as: Chang Cheng-ho]

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
USA - 1972 - 124m - col
Cinerama (A) (cut)
D: John Huston

Love Under 17
Liebe unter 17
W.Germany - 1970 - 88m - col
Butcher's (X) (cut)
D: Veit Relin [as: R.B. Winston]

Lucia
Cuba - 1969 - 161m - bw
Contemporary
D: Humberto Solas

The Magnificent Seven Ride!
USA - 1972 - 100m - col
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: George McCowan
Series: The Magnificent Seven (1960, Apr/1961).

The Mechanic
(aka: Killer of Killers)
USA - 1972 - 100m - col
United Artists (AA) (cut)
D: Michael Winner

Miss Julie
UK - 1972 - 105m - col
LMG / Tigon (AA) (cut)
D: Robin Phillips, John Glenister

Moral Love
Solo
France/Belgium - 1970 - 89m - col
Antony Balch (X) (cut)
D: Jean-Pierre Mocky

Neither the Sea Nor the Sand
UK - 1972 - 94m - col
Tigon (AA) (cut)
D: Fred Burnley

The Night She Rose From the Tomb
La notte che Evelyn uscì dalla tomba
(USA: The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave)
Italy - 1972 - 103m - col / scope
Miracle (X) (cut)
D: Emilio P. Miraglia

The Other
USA - 1972 - 100m - col
20th Century Fox (X)
D: Robert Mulligan

Pope Joan
USA - 1972 - 132m - col / scope
Columbia-Warner (AA) (cut)
D: Michael Anderson

Precinct 45: Los Angeles Police
The New Centurions
USA - 1972 - 103m - col / scope
Columbia-Warner (AA)
D: Richard Fleischer

The Reincarnate
(aka: The Dark Side)
Canada - 1971 - 122m - col
Hemdale (AA)
D: Don Haldane

Roma
Italy/France - 1972 - 138m - col
United Artists (X)
D: Federico Fellini

To Kill a Clown
UK - 1971 - 104m - col
20th Century Fox (X)
D: George Bloomfield

Tower of Evil
(USA: Horror on Snape Island)
(aka: Beyond the Fog)
UK - 1972 - 90m - col
MGM-EMI (X) (cut)
D: Jim O'Connolly

The Triple Echo
UK - 1972 - 94m - col
Hemdale (X)
D: Michael Apted

Wild in the Sky
USA - 1971 - 88m - col
Rank (AA)
D: William T. Naud

Winged Devils
Forza 'G'
Italy - 1971 - 103m - col
United Artists (A)
D: Duccio Tessari

The World of Hans Christian Andersen
アンデルセン物語
(aka: Fables From Hans Christian Andersen)
Japan - 1968 - 80m - col / scope
Target (U)
D: Kimio Yabuki

Wreck Raisers
UK - 1972 - 56m - col
Children's Film Foundation (U)
D: Harold Orton

Yehudi Menuhin: Way of Light
Yehudi Menuhin: Chemin de lumière
(aka: The Yehudi Menuhin Story)
France - 1971 - 80m - col
MGM-EMI (U)
D: François Reichenbach, Bernard Gavoty