MFB: July 1977

Introduction for newcomers

Monthly Film Bulletin

July 1977

Vol. 44 No. 522

Above Us the Earth

UK - 1977 - 85m - col

BFI (A)

D: Karl Francis

Age of Innocence
Ragtime Summer

Canada/UK - 1977 - 101m - col
Rank (AA)
D: Alan Bridges

The Assassin
The Bodyguard
赤膽好漢
(aka: Return of the Assassin)
Hong Kong - 1973 - 77m - col / scope
Mark Associates (X) (cut)
D: Chan Tung-man
Footage from this film - intercut with newly-shot material - was later used as the framework for an entirely new production, Fist of Legend 2: Iron Bodyguard (精武英雄2: 鐵保鏢, 1996).

Bad Company

USA - 1931 - 75m - bw

PDC (A)

D: Tay Garnett

The Best Way to Walk

La meilleure façon de marcher

France - 1976 - 86m - col

Oppidan (X)

D: Claude Miller

Black Sunday

USA - 1976 - 143m - col / scope

CIC (AA)

D: John Frankenheimer

A Bridge Too Far

UK - 1977 - 175m - col / scope

United Artists (A) (cut)

D: Richard Attenborough
35mm and 70mm release prints.
6-channel stereo

The Cassandra Crossing

UK/Italy/W.Germany - 1976 - 129m - col

20th Century Fox (A)

D: George Pan Cosmatos

Crash
Checkered Flag or Crash

USA - 1976 - 78m - col / scope

Columbia-Warner (A)

D: Alan Gibson

Denen ni shisu

[see: Pastoral Hide-and-Seek]

Depraved

Change pas de main

(USA: Don’t Change Hands)

France - 1975 - 90m - col

Oppidan (X) (cut)

D: Paul Vecchiali
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with cuts.

The Divine Obsession

USA - 1975 - 95m - col

Oppidan (X) (cut)

D: Lloyd Kaufman [as: Louis Su]

The Erotic Woman

Fiebre

(USA: Fever)

Argentina - 1971 - 90m - col

Supreme (X) (cut)

D: Armando Bo
Initially rejected by the BBFC when submitted by Columbia-Warner, then passed with cuts.

Film Portrait

USA - 1972 - 81m - bw and col

Cinegate

D: Jerome Hill

Fire

USA (TV) - 1977 - 97m - col

Columbia-Warner (A)

D: Earl Bellamy

Flash and the Firecat

USA - 1975 - 84m - col

New Realm (AA) (cut)

D: Ferd Sebastian, Beverly Sebastian

For Men Only
Bel Ami

Sweden/France - 1975 - 104m - col
Grand National (X) (cut)
D: Mac Ahlberg [as: Bert Torn]

French Mustard
La moutarde me mont au nez

(USA: Lucky Pierre)

France - 1974 - 98m - col / scope

Gala (AA)

D: Claude Zidi

Le gang

(USA: The Gang)

France/Italy - 1976 - 103m - col

Warner (AA)

D: Jacques Deray

Hot Winds
Garm Hava
गर्म हवा
(USA: Scorching Winds)
India - 1973 - 146m - col
Contemporary (A)
D: M.S. Sathyu

King Carnival

UK (TV) - 1973 - 50m - col

Contemporary

D: Horace Ové
Originally broadcast on UK TV as an episode of World About Us (1967).

Kings of the Road

Im Lauf der Zeit

W.Germany - 1976 - 176m - bw

Cinegate (AA)

D: Wim Wenders

Love Match

Une partie de plaisir

(USA: Pleasure Party)

(aka: A Piece of Pleasure)

France/Italy - 1974 - 101m - col

Artificial Eye (X)

D: Claude Chabrol

Master of the House

Du skal ære din hustru

Denmark - 1925 - silent - bw

Cinegate (U)

D: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Morning Glory

USA - 1933 - 74m - bw

RKO Radio (A)

D: Lowell Sherman
Also reviewed: Feb 1934.

Mr. Billion

USA - 1977 - 93m - col

20th Century Fox (A)

D: Jonathan Kaplan
3-channel Dolby Stereo

Okasareta byakui

[see: Violated Angels]

Passionate Desires

Fuego

Argentina - 1969 - 85m - col

Supreme (X)

D: Armando Bo

Pastoral Hide-and-Seek

田園に死す

Japan - 1974 - 102m - col

Essential Cinema

D: Shūji Terayama

Shattered

Les passagers

(USA: The Intruder)

(aka: The Passengers)

France/Italy - 1976 - 103m - col

Columbia-Warner (AA)

D: Serge Leroy

The Story of Joanna

USA - 1975 - 86m - col

Cinecenta (X) (cut)

D: Gerard Damiano

Strip First Then We Talk

Amore mio spogliati... che poi ti spiego!

Italy - 1975 - 95m - col

Grand National (X)

D: Fabio Pittorru, Renzo Ragazzi

Swamp Bait
‘Gator Bait

USA - 1974 - 88m - col
New Realm (AA) (cut)
D: Ferd Sebastian, Beverly Sebastian
Followed by: Gatorbait II: Cajun Justice (1988).

The Uncanny

Canada/UK - 1977 - 85m - col

Rank (X)

D: Denis Héroux

The Ups and Downs of Girls on Holiday

Sonne, Sylt und kesse Krabben

(USA: Ready, Willing and Able)

W.Germany - 1971 - 82m - col

Tigon (X)

D: Jerzy Macc

Violated Angels

犯された白衣

Japan - 1967 - 56m - bw and col / scope

Cinegate (Banned)

D: Kōji Wakamatsu

When Girls Go to Bed...

Jagd auf Jungfrauen

(USA: Overnight Models)

W.Germany - 1975 - 90m - col

Tigon (X)

D: Hans-Joachim Wiedermann [as: John Weeran]

Wrong Movement

Falsche Bewegung

W.Germany - 1975 - 103m - col

Cinegate (AA)

D: Wim Wenders