MFB: February 1976

Introduction for newcomers

Little Caesar

Monthly Film Bulletin

February 1976

Vol. 43 No. 505

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother

USA - 1975 - 91m - col

Fox-Rank (A) (cut)

D: Gene Wilder

And Then There Were None

(USA: Ten Little Indians)

UK/Spain/France/W.Germany/Italy - 1975 - 98m - col

EMI (U)

D: Peter Collinson

Avec quoi soulèves-tu l’edredon?

[see: Erotic Dreams]

Bootleggers

(aka: Bootleggers’ Angel)

USA - 1974 - 115m - col / scope

EMI (A)

D: Charles B. Pierce

Breakheart Pass

USA - 1975 - 94m - col

United Artists (A) (cut)

D: Tom Gries

Butley

USA/UK/Canada - 1973 - 130m - col

Seven Keys (AA)

D: Harold Pinter

The Champ

USA - 1931 - 87m - bw

MGM (A) (cut)

D: King Vidor

Conversation Piece

Gruppo di famiglia in un interno

Italy - 1974 - 121m - col

Fox-Rank (X) (cut)

D: Luchino Visconti

The Counsellor

Il consigliori

(USA: Counselor at Crime)

Italy/Spain - 1973 - 102m - col / scope

Columbia-Warner (X) (cut)

D: Alberto De Martino

Death Blow

賊王

(USA: Thunderfist)

Hong Kong - 1973 - 85m - col / scope

Golden Era (X) (cut)

D: Teddy Yip Wing-cho

Death Race 2000

USA - 1975 - 79m - col

Focus (X) (cut)

D: Paul Bartel

Dikie lebedi

[see: Wild Swans]

Erotic Dreams

Serre-moi contre toi, j'ai besoin de caresses

France - 1974 - 85m - col

Cinecenta (X) (cut)

D: Raoul André [as: Jean Levitte]

Fraud!

S.Africa - 1974 - 88m - col

Fox-Rank (A)

D: Donald Monat

The Golden Saloon of Sex

Les filles du Golden Saloon

France/Belgium - 1974 - 81m - col

Cinecenta (X) (cut)

D: Gilbert Roussel

Guns Across the Veldt

De Wet’s Spoor

S.Africa - 1975 - 81m - col

EMI (A) (cut)

D: Howard Rennie

Conversation Piece

Hearts of the World

USA - 1918 - silent - bw

BFI

D: D.W. Griffith

The Homecoming

USA/UK - 1973 - 114m - col

Seven Keys (AA)

D: Peter Hall

I’m Not Feeling Myself Tonight

UK - 1975 - 84m - col

New Realm (X) (cut)

D: Joseph McGrath

Island in the Snow

Земля Санникова

(aka: Sannikov's Land)

USSR - 1973 - 92m - col / scope

Brian Jackson (U)

D: Albert S. Mkrtchyan, Leonid Popov

The Late Mathias Pascal

Feu Mathias Pascal

(USA: The Living Dead Man)

France - 1925 - silent - bw

New London Film Society (A)

D: Marcel L’Herbier

Legacy

USA - 1975 - 79m - col

Connoisseur (X)

D: Karen Arthur

Little Caesar

USA - 1930 - 78m - col

First National (A)

D: Mervyn LeRoy

Lucky Lady

USA - 1975 - 118m - col

Fox-Rank (AA) (cut)

D: Stanley Donen
35mm and 70mm release prints.
6-channel stereo

The Magic Flute

Trollflöjten

Sweden (TV) - 1974 - 135m - col

Gala (U)

D: Ingmar Bergman

The Man Who Would Be King

USA - 1975 - 129m - col / scope

Columbia-Warner (A) (cut)

D: John Huston
4-channel stereo

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

USA - 1975 - 134m - col

United Artists (X)

D: Milos Forman

Housewives on the Job: Apr 1976

The Public Enemy

(aka: Enemies of the Public)

USA - 1931 - 83m - bw

Warner (A)

D: William A. Wellman
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed uncut.

Rancho Deluxe

USA - 1974 - 94m - col

United Artists (X)

D: Frank Perry

The Scoundrel

Docteur Popaul

(USA: High Heels)

(aka: Play Now, Pay Later)

France/Italy - 1972 - 101m - col

Fox-Rank (AA)

D: Claude Chabrol

Spanish Fly

UK - 1975 - 86m - col

EMI (AA) (cut)

D: Bob Kellett

Spoor

[see: Guns Across the Veldt]

The Sunshine Boys

USA - 1975 - 111m - col

CIC (A)

D: Herbert Ross

Sweet Sugar

USA - 1972 - 86m - col

Target (X) (cut)

D: Michel Levesque

Viva Portugal

W.Germany/France - 1975 - 99m - col

Cinema Action

D: Christiane Gerhards, Malte Rauch, Samuel Schirmbeck, Serge July, Peer Oliphant

Wild Swans

Дикие лебеди

USSR - 1962 - 57m - col / scope

Brian Jackson (U)

D: Mikhail Tsekhanovskaya, Vera Tsekhanovsky

Zemlya Sannikova

[see: Island in the Snow]