MFB: December 1975

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

December 1975

Vol. 42 No. 503

An American Tragedy

USA - 1931 - 96m - bw

Paramount (Banned)

D: Josef von Sternberg

Arnold

USA - 1973 - 95m - col

Fox-Rank (AA)

D: Georg Fenady

The Bit Player

Salut l’artiste

France/Italy - 1973 - 96m - col

Tigon (A)

D: Yves Robert

The Bruce Lee Story
Bruce Lee: A Dragon Story

一代猛龍

(USA: The Dragon Dies Hard)

(aka: Super Dragon)

Taiwan - 1974 - 90m - col / scope

Tigon (AA) (cut)

D: Shut Dik

Bug

USA - 1975 - 101m - col

CIC (X)

D: Jeannot Szwarc

Caged Heat

USA - 1974 - 83m - col

Target (X)

D: Jonathan Demme

The Cannibals

I cannibali

(USA: The Year of the Cannibals)

Italy - 1969 - 87m - col / scope

Cinegate (AA)

D: Liliana Cavani

A Dragon Story

[see: Bruce Lee Story, The]

Legend of the Werewolf

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle

(aka: Every Man for Himself and God Against All)

W.Germany - 1974 - 110m - col

Contemporary (A)

D: Werner Herzog

Farewell, My Lovely

USA - 1975 - 95m - col

Fox-Rank / Avco Embassy (AA) (cut)

D: Dick Richards

Fighting for Our Lives

USA - 1974 - 58m - col

The Other Cinema / United Farm Workers

D: Glen Pearcy

Five Fingers of Death
Shaolin Martial Arts
洪拳與詠春
(aka: Martial Arts of Shaolin)
Hong Kong - 1974 - 105m - col / scope
Columbia-Warner (X) (cut)
D: Chang Cheh

Framed

USA - 1974 - 106m - col

CIC (X) (cut)

D: Phil Karlson

The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty

Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter

(USA: The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick)

W.Germany/Austria - 1971 - 101m - col

Cinegate (A)

D: Wim Wenders

Great Expectations

UK - 1975 - 124m - col

Scotia-Barber (U)

D: Joseph Hardy

Gunman in Town

Una nuvola di polvere... un grido di morte... arriva Sartana

(USA: Light the Fuse... Sartana is Coming)

(aka: Cloud of Dust... Cry of Death... Sartana is Coming)

(aka: Run, Man, Run... Sartana’s in Town)

Italy/Spain - 1970 - 99m - col / scope

Golden Era (A)

D: Giuliano Carmineo [as: Anthony Ascott]
Series: Sartana: Pray forYour Death (...se incontri Sartana prega per la tua morte, 1968).

Hester Street

USA - 1974 - 89m - bw

Connoisseur (U)

D: Joan Micklin Silver

Hugo the Hippo

USA - 1975 - 78m - col

Hemdale (U)

D: William Feigenbaum

Innocents With Dirty Hands

Les innocents aux mains sales

(USA: Dirty Hands)

France/W.Germany/Italy - 1975 - 125m - col

Fox-Rank (AA)

D: Claude Chabrol

Inserts

UK - 1975 - 117m - col

United Artists (X) (cut)

D: John Byrum

Moana

Island of Crime

Sequestro di persona

(USA: Sardinia Kidnapped)

Italy - 1968 - 95m - col / scope

Golden Era (A) (cut)

D: Gianfranco Mingozzi

Jaws

USA - 1975 - 125m - col / scope

CIC (A)

D: Steven Spielberg
Followed by: Jaws 2 (1978, Dec/1978), Jaws 3-D (1983, Dec/1983), Jaws: The Revenge (1987, Oct/1987).

The Killer is on the Phone

L’assassino... è al telefono

(USA: Scenes From a Murder)

(aka: The Final Curtain)

Italy/Belgium - 1972 - 102m - col / scope

Cathay (AA)

D: Alberto De Martino

Legend of the Werewolf

UK - 1975 - 90m - col

Fox-Rank (X)

D: Freddie Francis

Loves of Liszt

Szerelmi almok: Liszt

Hungary/USSR - 1970 - 185m - col / Superpanorama 70

Gala (U)

D: Márton Keleti
6-channel stereo

Moana

USA - 1925 - silent - bw

BFI (U)

D: Robert J. Flaherty, Frances Hubbard Flaherty

Moonrunners

USA - 1974 - 102m - col

United Artists (A)

D: Gy Waldron

Night Caller

Peur sur la ville

(USA: Fear Over the City)

France/Italy - 1975 - 125m - col

Columbia-Warner (AA) (cut)

D: Henri Verneuil

Permission to Kill

(USA: The Executioner)

UK/USA/Austria - 1975 - 97m - col

Columbia-Warner (AA)

D: Cyril Frankel

The Progress of Peoples

UK - 1975 - 79m - col

Contemporary

D: Kieron Moore

Return of the Big Cat

USA (TV) - 1974 - 70m - col

Walt Disney (U)

D: Tom Leetch

Sharks’ Treasure

USA - 1974 - 95m - col

United Artists (A) (cut)

D: Cornel Wilde

Somebody's Stolen Our Russian Spy
O.K. Yevtushenko

Spain - 1967 - 108m - col
Tigon (U)
D: José Luis Madrid [as: James Ward]
Series: Licensed to Kill (1965, Sep/1965).

The Streetfighter
Hard Times

USA - 1975 - 93m - col / scope
Columbia-Warner (AA)
D: Walter Hill

The Ups and Downs of a Handyman

(aka: Confessions of an Odd Job Man)

UK - 1975 - 90m - col

Target (X) (cut)

D: John Sealey

Les valseuses

(USA: Going Places)

(aka: Making It)

France - 1974 - 118m - col

Cinegate (Banned)

D: Bertrand Blier
Rejected by the BBFC in 1974, then passed uncut with an 18 in 1992 when submitted by Gala.

Venial Sin

Peccato veniale

(USA: Lovers and Other Relatives)

Italy - 1973 - 97m - col

Columbia-Warner (X)

D: Salvatore Samperi

White Line Fever

USA - 1975 - 89m - col

Columbia-Warner (AA)

D: Jonathan Kaplan