Friday 21 October 2016

MFB: August 1975




Monthly Film Bulletin
August 1975
Vol. 42 No. 499




Abby
USA - 1974 - 89m - col
Focus (X)
D: William Girdler

Appassionata
Italy - 1974 - 100m - col
Eagle (X) (cut)
D: Gianluigi Calderone

The Apple Dumpling Gang
USA - 1974 - 100m - col
Walt Disney (U)
D: Norman Tokar
Followed by: The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979).

Confessions of a Sex Maniac
(aka: The Man Who Couldn't Get Enough)
UK - 1974 - 80m - col
Oppidan (X)
D: Alan Birkinshaw

Diagnosis: Murder
UK - 1974 - 90m - col
CIC (A)
D: Sidney Hayers

The Eiger Sanction
USA - 1975 - 125m - col / scope
CIC (AA)
D: Clint Eastwood

Enter the Seven Virgins
Virgins of the 7 Seas
洋妓
(USA: The Bod Squad)
(aka: Shogun Warlord)
Hong Kong/W.Germany - 1974 - 92m - col / scope
SF (X) (cut)
D: Kuei Chi-hung, Ernst Hofbauer

Es war nicht die Nachtigall
[see: Julia]

Girls Come First
UK - 1975 - 45m - col
New Realm (X) (cut)
D: Joseph McGrath [as: Croisette Meubles]
Non-UK prints are feature length, with the addition of hardcore footage.
Series: The Over-Amorous Artist (1974, Jul/1974).



Is There Sex After Death?
(aka: Is There Love After Death?)
USA - 1971 - 102m - col
Oppidan (X - London)
D: Jeanne Abel, Alan Abel
Rejected by the BBFC in 1972, then released on video by Intervision (pre-VRA) in 1983.

Jacqueline Susann’s Once is Not Enough
[see: Once is Not Enough]

Jane
USA - 1963 - 51m - bw
Fair Enterprises (U)
D: D.A. Pennebaker, Richard Leacock, Hope Ryden, Gregory Shuker, Abbott Mills

Julia
Der Liebesschüler
W.Germany - 1974 - 88m - col
Focus (X) (cut)
D: Sigi Rothemund

The Little Prince
USA - 1974 - 89m - col
CIC (U)
D: Stanley Donen
3-channel Dolby Stereo

Mandingo
USA - 1975 - 126m - col
CIC (X) (cut)
D: Richard Fleischer
Followed by: Drum (1976, Oct/1976).

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
USA - 1973 - 114m - col / scope
CIC (X) (cut)
D: Richard C. Sarafian

The Merchant of Four Seasons
Händler der vier Jahreszeiten
W.Germany - 1971 - 89m - col
Cinegate (X)
D: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Mixed Company
USA - 1974 - 109m - col
CIC (AA) (cut)
D: Melville Shavelson

Mr. Ricco
USA - 1975 - 98m - col / scope
CIC (AA)
D: Paul Bogart

Number Seventeen
UK - 1932 - 64m - bw
Wardour (U) (cut)
D: Alfred Hitchcock

Once is Not Enough
USA - 1974 - 122m - col / scope
CIC (AA)
D: Guy Green




Out of Season
UK - 1975 - 90m - col
EMI (X)
D: Alan Bridges

The Panic in Needle Park
USA - 1971 - 110m - col
Fox-Rank (X) (cut)
D: Jerry Schatzberg
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed uncut. The film was cut for video in 1987, but the censored material was subsequently restored in 2002.

The Rebel Nun
Flavia: La monaca musulmana
(USA: Flavia: Priestess of Violence)
(aka: Flavia the Heretic)
Italy/France - 1974 - 99m - col
Eagle (X) (cut)
D: Gianfranco Mingozzi

The Return of the Pink Panther
UK - 1975 - 113m - col / scope
United Artists (U)
D: Blake Edwards
Series: The Pink Panther (1963, Feb/1964).

Rich and Strange
(USA: East of Shanghai)
UK - 1931 - 83m - bw
Wardour (A) (cut)
D: Alfred Hitchcock

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
UK - 1974 - 101m - col
Fox-Rank (AA)
D: Jim Sharman
Followed by: Shock Treatment (1981, Dec/1981).
4-channel stereo

Royal Flash
UK - 1975 - 118m - col
Fox-Rank (A) (cut)
D: Richard Lester




Some Call It Loving
(aka: Sideshow)
(aka: Sleeping Beauty)
USA - 1973 - 103m - col
Pleasant Pastures (X)
D: James B. Harris

Stick 'Em Up, Darlings!
Colpo in canna
(aka: Loaded Guns)
Italy - 1974 - 96m - col
K-Tel (X) (cut)
D: Fernando Di Leo

Submission
Pets
(aka: One-Night Stand)
USA - 1973 - 102m - col
Oppidan (X) (cut)
D: Raphael Nussbaum

The Tempter
Il sorriso del grande tentatore
(USA: The Devil is a Woman)
Italy/UK - 1974 - 120m - col
EMI (AA)
D: Damiano Damiani

The Violator
Act of Vengeance
(aka: Rape Squad)
USA - 1974 - 90m - col
Focus (X) (cut)
D: Bob Kelljan [as: Robert Kelljchian]

Vladimir and Rosa
Vladimir et Rosa
France/W.Germany/USA - 1970 - 103m - col
The Other Cinema
D: Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin [as: Groupe Dziga-Vertov]

The Wind and the Lion
USA - 1975 - 119m - col / scope
Columbia-Warner (A) (cut)
D: John Milius
35mm and 70mm release prints.
6-channel stereo

A Window to the Sky
The Other Side of the Mountain
USA - 1975 - 102m - col
CIC (A)
D: Larry Peerce
Followed by: The Other Side of the Mountain Part II (1978).

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