MFB: March 1976

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

March 1976

Vol. 43 No. 506

The 8-Wheel Beast

Il bestione

(aka: The Beast)

Italy/France - 1974 - 102m - col

Columbia-Warner (X)

D: Sergio Corbucci

Aloha Bobby and Rose

USA - 1975 - 89m - col

Columbia-Warner (AA)

D: Floyd Mutrux

Ankur: The Seedling
Ankur

अंकुर

India - 1974 - 131m - col

Contemporary (AA)

D: Shyam Benegal

The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones

UK - 1975 - 93m - col

CIC (X)

D: Cliff Owen

The Best of Walt Disney’s True Life Adventures

USA - 1975 - 89m - col

Walt Disney (U)

D: James Algar

A Bill of Divorcement

USA - 1932 - 75m - col

Radio (A)

D: George Cukor

The Copter Kids

UK - 1976 - 57m - col

Children's Film Foundation (U)

D: Ronald Spencer

Daitozoku

[see: Lost World of Sinbad, The]

Death Dive
Fer-de-Lance

USA (TV) - 1974 - 97m - col
GTO (A)
D: Russ Mayberry

A Delicate Balance

USA/UK - 1974 - 134m - col

Seven Keys (AA)

D: Tony Richardson

Deranged

USA - 1974 - 82m - col

DUK (X) (cut)

D: Alan Ormsby

Diamonds

USA - 1975 - 108m - col

Fox-Rank (A) (cut)

D: Menahem Golan

Face to the Wind

[see: Cry for Me, Billy]

Galileo

UK/Canada - 1974 - 145m - col

Seven Keys (A)

D: Joseph Losey

Hangup

USA - 1973 - 93m - col

Hemdale (X)

D: Henry Hathaway

History Lessons

Geschichtsunterricht

W.Germany - 1972 - 85m - col

The Other Cinema

D: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet

House of Mortal Sin

(USA: The Confessional)

(aka: The Confessional Murders)

UK - 1975 - 104m - col

Columbia-Warner (X) (cut)

D: Pete Walker

Hustle

USA - 1975 - 118m - col

CIC (X)

D: Robert Aldrich

In Celebration

UK/Canada - 1974 - 131m - col

Seven Keys (A)

D: Lindsay Anderson

The Killer Elite

USA - 1975 - 120m - col / scope

United Artists (X)

D: Sam Peckinpah

The Lost World of Sinbad

大盗賊

(aka: The Adventures of Sinbad)

(aka: The Great Thief)

(aka: The Samurai Pirate)

Japan - 1963 - 97m - col / scope

Focus (A) (cut)

D: Senkichi Taniguchi

The Lumiere Years

Les années Lumière: 1895-1900

France - 1972 - 87m - bw

Ron Harris

D: Jean Chapot

Luther

USA/UK/Can - 1973 - 112m - col

Seven Keys (A)

D: Guy Green

The Mack

USA - 1973 - 109m - col

Scotia-Barber (X)

D: Michael Campus

The Maids

UK/Canada - 1974 - 95m - col

Seven Keys (AA)

D: Christopher Miles

The Man From Nowhere

UK - 1976 - 59m - col

Children's Film Foundation (U)

D: James Hill

The Master Gunfighter

USA - 1975 - 121m - col / scope

Columbia-Warner (AA)

D: Frank Laughlin

Miracles Still Happen

I miracoli accadono ancora

(aka: Amazon Death Trap)

(aka: The Story of Juliane Koepcke)

Italy/USA - 1974 - 97m - col

Hemdale (A) (cut)

D: Giuseppe Scotese

Moses the Lawgiver

(aka: Moses)

UK/Italy (TV) - 1975 - 360m - 6 episodes - col

Scotia-Barber (A) (cut)

D: Gianfranco de Bosio
The UK theatrical version distributed by Scotia-Barber was a condensed feature-length edition, running 141 minutes.

My Sweet Lady

USA (TV) - 1975 - 94m - col

CIC (A) (cut)

D: Daniel Haller, John Badham, Leon Benson, Robert Day, Joseph Sargent
Comprised of footage edited from the TV series Sunshine (1975).

Naked Revenge
Cry for Me, Billy
(aka: Apache Massacre)
USA - 1972 - 92m - col
Hemdale (X)
D: William A. Graham

Not Reconciled, or Only Violence Helps Where Violence Rules

Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt wo Gewalt herrscht

W.Germany - 1965 - 55m - bw

The Other Cinema

D: Jean-Marie Straub

Operation Daybreak

USA/UK/Czechoslovakia - 1975 - 119m - col

Columbia-Warner (AA) (cut)

D: Lewis Gilbert

Penelope "Pulls It Off"

(aka: Sexy Penelope)

UK - 1975 - 84m - col

Target (X) (cut)

D: Peter Curran

Rachel’s Man

Israel - 1975 - 111m - col

Hemdale (A)

D: Moshé Mizrahi

Sansho dayu

[see: Sansho the Bailiff]

Sansho the Bailiff

山椒大夫

Japan - 1954 - 123m - bw

Cinegate (A)

D: Kenji Mizoguchi

Shivers

(USA: They Came From Within)

Canada - 1975 - 87m - col

Target (X)

D: David Cronenberg

Side by Side

UK - 1975 - 84m - col

GTO (A)

D: Bruce Beresford

The Sparrow of Pigalle
Piaf

(USA: Piaf: The Early Years)
France - 1974 - 105m - col
Gala (AA)
D: Guy Casaril

Steppenwolf

USA - 1974 - 106m - col

Contemporary (X)

D: Fred Haines
4-channel stereo

A Story of Tutankhamun

UK - 1975 - 52m - col

Brian Jackson (U) (cut)

D: Kevin Scott

Sunshine Part II

[see: My Sweet Lady]

Sweet Kill

(aka: The Arousers)

(aka: A Kiss From Eddie)

USA - 1971 - 87m - col

Focus (X) (cut)

D: Curtis Hanson
Initially rejected by the BBFC when submitted by Anglo-EMI, then passed with cuts.

To the Devil a Daughter

UK/W.Germany - 1976 - 93m - col

EMI (X)

D: Peter Sykes

Welcome to Arrow Beach

(aka: And No-One Would Believe Her)

(aka: Tender Flesh)

USA - 1973 - 99m - col

Hemdale (X)

D: Laurence Harvey

Welfare

USA - 1975 - 167m - bw

The Other Cinema

D: Frederick Wiseman

What’s Up, Tiger Lily?

USA - 1966 - 79m - col / scope

Focus (A) (cut)

D: Woody Allen (and Senkichi Taniguchi)
Re-dubbed and re-scored version of Japanese film Key of Keys (国際秘密警察　鍵の鍵, 1965).

Winterhawk

USA - 1975 - 98m - col / scope

Focus (A) (cut)

D: Charles B. Pierce