MFB: December 1974

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

December 1974

Vol. 41 No. 491

The 21 Carat Snatch
Popsy Pop

France/Italy - 1970 - 100m - col
SF (AA) (cut)
D: Jean Herman

The Amazons

Le guerriere dal seno nudo

Italy/France - 1973 - 105m - col

EMI (X) (cut)

D: Terence Young

Antonio

Chile - 1973 - 82m - col

Saga (U)

D: Claudio Guzmán

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Canada - 1974 - 121m - col / scope

Fox-Rank (X)

D: Ted Kotcheff

Baba Yaga: Devil Witch
Baba Yaga

(aka: Kiss Me Kill Me)

Italy/France - 1973 - 81m - col

Border (X) (cut)

D: Corrado Farina

Bawdy Tales

Storie scellerate

(aka: Roguish Stories)

Italy/France - 1973 - 97m - col

United Artists (X) (cut)

D: Sergio Citti

Bunny O’Hare

USA - 1971 - 92m - col

Eton (A)

D: Gerd Oswald

California Split

USA - 1974 - 109m - col / scope

Columbia-Warner (X)

D: Robert Altman
8-channel stereo

Can You Keep It Up for a Week?

UK - 1974 - 94m - col

Target (X) (cut)

D: Jim Atkinson

Chosen Survivors

USA - 1974 - 98m - col

Columbia-Warner (X)

D: Sutton Roley

Cinderella Liberty

USA - 1973 - 117m - col / scope

Fox-Rank (X)

D: Mark Rydell

Confessions of a Bigamist

Warum hab’ ich bloß 2 x ja gesagt

(USA: The Viking Who Became a Bigamist)

W.Germany/Italy - 1969 - 99m - col / scope

Border (AA)

D: Franz Antel [as: François Legrand]

Crystal Voyager

Australia/USA - 1974 - 78m - col

Hemdale (U)

D: David Elfick

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry

USA - 1974 - 92m - col

Fox-Rank (X)

D: John Hough

Dyadya Vanya

[see: Uncle Vanya]

L’erotisme à l’etude

[see: My Body Burns]

Eskimo Nell

UK - 1974 - 85m - col

Eagle (X) (cut)

D: Martin Campbell

Fantastic Planet

La planète sauvage

France/Czechoslovakia - 1973 - 71m - col

Hemdale (A)

D: René Laloux

First Time With Feeling

Vous intéressez-vous à la chose?

France/W.Germany - 1973 - 82m - col

New Realm (X) (cut)

D: Jacques Baratier

Five Star Final

USA - 1931 - 88m - bw

First National (A)

D: Mervyn LeRoy

The Gravy Train

USA - 1974 - 96m - col

Columbia-Warner (X)

D: Jack Starrett

The Greek Connection

Όργια σε τιμή ευκαιρίας

Greece - 1973 - 88m - col

Focus (X) (cut)

D: Kostas Karagiannis [as: Dacosta Carayan]

The Hell Below

Les caïds

(aka: The Big Shots)

France - 1972 - 91m - col / scope

Saga (A) (cut)

D: Robert Enrico

Is There Sex After Marriage

USA - 1973 - 87m - col

New Realm (X) (cut)

D: Richard Robinson

Kung Fu Girl

None But the Brave
鐵娃
(USA: Attack of the Kung Fu Girls)
(aka: The Heroine)
Hong Kong - 1973 - 89m - col / scope
Cathay (X) (cut)
D: Lo Wei

The Last Flight

USA - 1931 - 80m - bw

Film Distributors Association (A)

D: William Dieterle

Lightning Swords of Death

子連れ狼　死に風に向う乳母車
(aka: Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades)

Japan - 1972 - 92m - col / scope
Columbia-Warner (X) (cut)

D: Kenji Misumi
Series: Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (子連れ狼　子を貸し腕貸しつかまつる, 1972).

Madhouse

UK - 1974 - 92m - col

EMI (X)

D: Jim Clark

The Mean Machine

The Longest Yard

USA - 1974 - 122m - col
CIC (X)
D: Robert Aldrich

The Mother and the Whore

La maman et la putain

France - 1973 - 219m - bw

Gala (X)

D: Jean Eustache

Murder on the Orient Express

UK - 1974 - 131m - col

EMI (A)

D: Sidney Lumet
Followed by: Death on the Nile (1978, Oct/1978), Evil Under the Sun (1981, May/1982), Thirteen at Dinner (1985), Dead Man's Folly (1986), Murder in Three Acts (1986), Appointment With Death (1988, May/88).

My Ain Folk

UK - 1973 - 55m - bw

Connoisseur (AA)

D: Bill Douglas
Series: My Childhood (1972, short).

My Body Burns

Dossier érotique d’un notaire

France - 1973 - 78m - col

Cinecenta (X)

D: Jean-Marie Pallardy

Night of Bloody Horror

USA - 1969 - 89m - col

Grand National (X) (cut)

D: Joy N. Houck Jr.

Night of the Bloody Apes

La horripilante bestia humana

Mexico - 1969 - 83m - col

Grand National (X) (cut)

D: René Cardona Jr.

The Odessa File

UK/W.Germany - 1974 - 129m - col / scope

Columbia-Warner (A)

D: Ronald Neame

Otello

W.Germany - 1974 - 148m - col

EMI (U)

D: Roger Benamou

A Pain in the A**

L’emmerdeur

France/Italy - 1973 - 84m - col

Miracle (A)

D: Edouard Molinaro

Penthesilea

UK - 1974 - 99m - col

The Other Cinema

D: Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen

Sally of the Sawdust

USA - 1925 - silent - bw

BFI (U)

D: D.W. Griffith

Sex Without Love

Les charnelles

France - 1974 - 90m - col

Target (X) (cut)

D: Claude Mulot [as: Frédéric Lansac]

Sixteen

Sedici anni

Italy - 1973 - 94m - col

Gemini (X)

D: Tiziano Longo

Six Women

(aka: The Last Sundown)

USA - 1971 - 64m - col

Cinecenta (X) (cut)

D: Michael Bennett

The Skyhawk

黃飛鴻少林拳

Hong Kong - 1973 - 88m - col / scope

Cathay (X) (cut)

D: Jeng Cheong-woh [as: Chang Cheng-ho]

The Slightly Pregnant Man

L’événement le plus important depuis qui l’homme a marché sur la lune

France/Italy - 1973 - 95m - col

Border (AA)

D: Jacques Demy

Take This My Body

Il corpo

(USA: The Body)

Italy - 1974 - 93m - col

Gemini (X) (cut)

D: Luigi Scattini

Tango of Perversion

Ταγκό 2001

(aka: Tango 2001)

Greece - 1973 - 93m - col

Focus (X) (cut)

D: Kostas Karagiannis [as: Dacosta Carayan]

The Thing With Two Heads

USA - 1972 - 86m - col

Eton (A) (cut)

D: Lee Frost

Uncle Vanya

Дядя Ваня

USSR - 1971 - 102m - col and bw

Contemporary (A)

D: Andrei Konchalovsky

Verdict

(aka: Jury of One)
France/Italy - 1974 - 97m - col

Columbia-Warner (X)

D: André Cayatte

What’s Next?

UK - 1974 - 56m - col

Children's Film Foundation (U)

D: Peter K. Smith

When Tae Kwon Do Strikes

跆拳震九州

(USA: Sting of the Dragon Masters)

(aka: Kickmaster)

Hong Kong/S.Korea - 1973 - 95m - col / scope

Cathay (X) (cut)

D: Wong Fung