Wednesday, 3 June 2015

MFB: June 1947





Monthly Film Bulletin
June 1947
Vol. 14 No. 162


Alias Mr. Twilight
USA - 1946 - 69m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: John Sturges

Black Memory
UK - 1947 - 73m - bw
Ambassador (A)
D: Oswald Mitchell

Boule de suif
(USA: Angel and Sinner)
France - 1945 - 103m - bw
GCT (A) (cut)
D: Christian-Jaque

Bush Christmas
UK/Australia - 1947 - 80m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Ralph Smart


Bush Christmas



Calendar Girl
(aka: Stardust and Sweet Music)
USA - 1947 - 88m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Allan Dwan

Child of Divorce
USA - 1946 - 62m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Richard Fleischer

Cigarette Girl
USA - 1947 - 67m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Gunther von Fritsch

Dear Murderer
UK - 1947 - 90m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Arthur Crabtree

Death Rides the Range
USA - 1939 - 58m - bw
Associated-British (U)
D: Sam Newfield

Dual Alibi
UK - 1947 - 81m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Alfred Travers




The Fabulous Dorseys
(aka: The Fighting Dorseys)
USA - 1947 - 88m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Alfred E. Green

For the Love of Rusty
USA - 1947 - 68m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: John Sturges
Series: Adventures of Rusty (1945, Dec/1945).

Fun on a Week-End
(aka: The Pretenders)
USA - 1947 - 93m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Andrew L. Stone

Gambling Hell
Macao: "L'enfer du jeu"
(aka: Mask of Korea)
France - 1942 - 90m - bw
Renown (A)
D: Jean Delannoy

The Great Promise
דמעת הנחמה הגדולה
Palestine - 1947 - 50m - bw
Eros (U)
D: Joseph Lejtes

The Hangman Waits
UK - 1947 - 63m - bw
Butcher's (A)
D: A. Barr-Smith

Her Sister's Secret
USA - 1946 - 86m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Edgar G. Ulmer

Home in Oklahoma
USA - 1946 - 72m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: William Witney
Series: Under Western Stars (1938, Oct/1938).

Idea Girl
USA - 1946 - 60m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Will Jason

Jungle Flight
USA - 1947 - 67m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Sam Newfield [as: Peter Stewart]




King of the Wild
[see: King of the Wild Horses]

King of the Wild Horses
USA - 1947 - 79m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: George Archainbaud

La loi du nord
France - 1939 - 110m - bw
Film Traders (A) (cut)
D: Jacques Feyder

The Lone Wolf in Mexico
USA - 1947 - 69m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: D. Ross Lederman
Series: The Lone Wolf Returns (1935, Mar/1936).

The Loves of Joanna Godden
UK - 1947 - 89m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Charles Frend (and Robert Hamer)

The Melting Pot
Betty Co-Ed
USA - 1946 - 68m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Arthur Dreifuss

Millie's Daughter
USA - 1947 - 74m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Sidney Salkow




Mr. Mouse
Monsieur La Souris
(USA: Midnight in Paris)
France - 1942 - 106m - bw
Studio One (A)
D: Georges Lacombe

On Boot Hill
Galloping Thunder
USA - 1946 - 54m - bw
Columbia (U) (cut)
D: Ray Nazarro
Series: The Durango Kid (1940).

The Perils of Pauline
USA - 1947 - 96m - col
Paramount (U)
D: George Marshall

Phantom Rancher
USA - 1940 - 61m - bw
Associated-British (U) (cut)
D: Harry L. Fraser

The Return of Monte Cristo
(UK: Monte Cristo's Revenge)
USA - 1946 - 91m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Henry Levin
Series: The Count of Monte Cristo (1934, Nov/1934).

Riders of the West
USA - 1942 - 58m - bw
New Realm (U)
D: Howard Bretherton
Series: Arizona Bound (1941, Apr/1943).

The Royal Mounted Rides Again
USA - 1945 - 221m -13 chapters - bw
General Film (U)
D: Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor

Sinbad, the Sailor
USA - 1946 - 116m - col
RKO Radio (U)
D: Richard Wallace

Talk about under-selling a picture! This gets my vote as
the least inspiring ad-mat of 1947...


Son of Dracula
USA - 1943 - 80m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Robert Siodmak
Series: Dracula (1931).

Southern Love
(USA: A Woman's Secret)
UK - 1924 - silent - bw
New Realm (A) (cut)
D: Herbert Wilcox
Originally released in 1924 by Graham - Wilcox. The version reviewed by MFB appears to constitute a revised edition of the original film. This included a newly-created soundtrack, with musical accompaniment and a running commentary by Lionel Gamlin.

Tarzan and the Huntress
USA - 1947 - 72m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Kurt Neumann
Series: Tarzan the Ape Man (1932, Dec/1955).

The Thirteenth Hour
USA - 1947 - 65m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: William Clemens
Series: The Whistler (1944, Oct/1944).

Trail Street
USA - 1947 - 84m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Ray Enright

Two-Fisted Stranger
(UK: High Stakes)
USA - 1946 - 53m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Ray Nazarro
Series: The Durango Kid (1940).

Two Men and a Girl
Honeymoon
USA - 1947 - 74m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: William Keighley

The Upturned Glass
UK - 1947 - 90m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Lawrence Huntington

The Yearling
USA - 1946 - 128m - col
MGM (U)
D: Clarence Brown

Young Widow
(aka: The Naughty Widow)
USA - 1946 - 100m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Edwin L. Marin

Tuesday, 2 June 2015

MFB: May 1947





Monthly Film Bulletin
May 1947
Vol. 14 No. 161


Banjo
USA - 1947 - 68m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Richard Fleischer

The Barber of Seville
Il barbiere di Siviglia
It - 1947 - 90m - bw
Film Traders (U)
D: Mario Costa

The Beginning or the End
USA - 1947 - 112m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Norman Taurog

Black Angel
USA - 1946 - 81m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Roy William Neill




Black Narcissus
UK - 1947 - 100m - col
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Also reviewed: Oct 1984.

Born to Speed
USA - 1947 - 61m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Edward L. Cahn

The Brothers
UK - 1947 - 98m - bw
General Film (A)
D: David MacDonald
Also reviewed: Sep 1985.

Carnegie Hall
USA - 1947 - 144m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Edgar G. Ulmer

Carnival in Costa Rica
USA - 1947 - 97m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Gregory Ratoff



The Courtneys of Curzon Street
(USA: Kathy's Love Affair)
(aka: The Courtney Affair)
UK - 1947 - 120m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Herbert Wilcox

Dangerous Money
USA - 1946 - 66m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Terry O. Morse
Series: Charlie Chan Carries On (1931).

Danger Street
USA - 1947 - 68m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Lew Landers

Le déserteur
(USA: Three Hours)
Fr - 1939 - 85m - bw
GCT (A)
D: Léonide Moguy

The Fabulous Suzanne
USA - 1946 - 71m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Steve Sekely

The Falcon's Alibi
USA - 1946 - 61m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Ray McCarey
Series: The Gay Falcon (1941, Nov/1941).

The Farmer's Daughter
USA - 1947 - 97m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: H.C. Potter

Fear in the Night
USA - 1947 - 72m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Maxwell Shane

The Ghost Goes Wild
USA - 1947 - 66m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: George Blair

The Guilt of Janet Ames
USA - 1947 - 83m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Henry Levin




High Barbaree
USA - 1947 - 91m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Jack Conway

High School Hero
USA - 1946 - 69m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Arthur Dreifuss
Series: Junior Prom (1946, Dec/1946).

Hit Parade of 1947
(aka: High and Happy)
USA - 1947 - 90m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Frank McDonald
Series: The Hit Parade (1937, Aug/1937).

Hollywood Cowboy
(aka: Wings Over Wyoming)
USA - 1937 - 64m - bw
Grand National (U)
D: Ewing Scott
Original UK release: 1937 (RKO Radio).

The Homestretch
USA - 1947 - 99m - col
20th Century Fox (A)
D: H. Bruce Humberstone

I'll Be Yours
USA - 1947 - 93m - bw
General Film (U)
D: William A. Seiter

The Inner Circle
USA - 1946 - 57m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Philip Ford

Jewels of Brandenburg
USA - 1947 - 64m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Eugene Forde

The Locket
USA - 1946 - 85m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: John Brahm

Lost Honeymoon
USA - 1947 - 71m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Leigh Jason

The Mummy's Ghost
USA - 1944 - 61m - bw
General Film (H)
D: Reginald Le Borg
Series: The Mummy's Hand (1940, Mar/1941).





Panique
(USA: Panic)
Fr - 1946 - 91m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Julien Duvivier

The Phantom Shot
UK - 1947 - 50m - bw
International (A)
D: Mario Zampi

Plainsman and the Lady
(aka: Drumbeats Over Wyoming)
USA - 1946 - 87m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Joseph Kane

The Red House
USA - 1947 - 100m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Delmer Daves

Roll On Texas Moon
USA - 1946 - 68m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: William Witney
Series: Under Western Stars (1938, Oct/1938).

Rookies Come Home
Buck Privates Come Home
USA - 1947 - 77m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Charles T. Barton
Series: Buck Privates (1941, Apr/1941).

Shadows on the Range
USA - 1946 - 57m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Lambert Hillyer

Song of Scheherazade
USA - 1947 - 105m - col
General Film (A)
D: Walter Reisch

South of Monterey
USA - 1946 - 63m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: William Nigh
Series: Return of the Cisco Kid (1939, Jun/1939).

The Stone Flower
Каменный цветок
USSR - 1946 - 89m - col
Film Traders (U)
D: Aleksandr Ptushko


The Stone Flower



Strange Voyage
USA - 1946 - 80m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Irving Allen

Swell Guy
USA - 1946 - 87m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Frank Tuttle

Take My Life
UK - 1947 - 79m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Ronald Neame

Wild Harvest
USA - 1947 - 92m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Tay Garnett

Monday, 1 June 2015

MFB: April 1947





Monthly Film Bulletin
April 1947
Vol. 14 No. 160


Arizona Stage Coach
USA - 1942 - 58m - bw
Ealing (U) (cut)
D: S. Roy Luby
Series: The Range Busters (1940, Mar/1949).

Avalanche
USA - 1946 - 70m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Irving Allen

Below the Deadline
(aka: Jumping Joe)
USA - 1946 - 65m - bw
Pathé (A) (cut)
D: William Beaudine




The Best Years of Our Lives
USA - 1946 - 172m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: William Wyler

Blaze of Noon
USA - 1947 - 90m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: John Farrow

Blondie's Holiday
USA - 1947 - 67m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Abby Berlin
Series: Blondie (1938, Feb/1939).

Cynthia's Secret
Dark Delusion
USA - 1947 - 90m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Willis Goldbeck
Series: Internes Can't Take Money (1937, May/1937).

Decoy
USA - 1946 - 76m - bw
Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Jack Bernhard

Devil Bat's Daughter
USA - 1946 - 67m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Frank Wisbar
Series: The Devil Bat (1940, Jun/1941).



Frontier Feud
USA - 1945 - 54m - bw
Pathé (U)
D: Lambert Hillyer
Series: The Ghost Rider (1943, May/1944).

Gentleman Joe Palooka
USA - 1946 - 72m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Cy Endield
Series: Joe Palooka, Champ (1946, Oct/1946).

God's Country
USA - 1946 - 64m - col
Exclusive (U)
D: Robert Emmett Tansey

Humoresque
USA - 1946 - 125m - bw
Warner (A)
D: Jean Negulesco

I Cover Big Town
(aka: I Cover the Underworld)
USA - 1947 - 63m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: William C. Thomas

It's a Wonderful Life
USA - 1947 - 130m - bw
RKO Radio (A) (cut)
D: Frank Capra

Grim UK artwork for one of Hollywood's most
life-affirming masterpieces.

The Man Within
(USA: The Smugglers)
UK - 1947 - 109m - col
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Bernard Knowles

Marked Men
(aka: Desert Escape)
USA - 1940 - 66m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Sam Newfield [as: Sherman Scott]

Michigan Kid
USA - 1947 - 69m - col
General Film (U)
D: Ray Taylor

The Missing Lady
USA - 1946 - 60m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Phil Karlson
Series: The Shadow Returns (1946, Oct/1946).

Nora Prentiss
USA - 1947 - 111m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Vincent Sherman




Notorious
USA - 1946 - 101m - bw
RKO Radio (A) (cut)
D: Alfred Hitchcock

Odd Man Out
UK - 1947 - 116m - bw
General Film (A)
D: Carol Reed

The Other Love
(aka: Man Killer)
USA - 1947 - 95m - bw
MGM (A)
D: André De Toth

Pontcarral, colonel d'empire
France - 1942 - 125m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Jean Delannoy

Queen of Burlesque
USA - 1946 - 70m - bw
Pathé (A)
D: Sam Newfield

Riffraff
USA - 1947 - 80m - bw
RKO Radio (A)
D: Ted Tetzlaff

Royal Flush
Two Guys From Milwaukee
USA - 1946 - 90m - bw
Warner (U)
D: David Butler

Seven Were Saved
USA - 1947 - 73m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: William H. Pine

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
USA - 1947 - 85m - col
20th Century Fox (U)
D: George Seaton



Stallion Road
USA - 1947 - 97m - bw
Warner (A) (cut)
D: James V. Kern

Temptation Harbour
UK - 1947 - 91m - bw
Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Lance Comfort

Texas Trouble Shooters
USA - 1942 - 55m - bw
Ealing (U)
D: S. Roy Luby
Series: The Range Busters (1940, Mar/1949).

Undercover Girl
Undercover Maisie
USA - 1947 - 90m - bw
MGM (A)
D: Harry Beaumont
Series: Maisie (1939, Jul/1939).

Vengeance
Carmen
(aka: The Story of Carmen)
France/Italy - 1945 - 124m - bw
Exclusive (A) (cut)
D: Christian-Jaque
Also reviewed: Feb 1949.

Welcome Stranger
USA - 1947 - 107m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: Elliott Nugent

The Well-Digger's Daughter
La fille du puisatier
France - 1940 - 170m - bw
London Film Productions (A) (cut)
D: Marcel Pagnol

When You Come Home
UK - 1947 - 98m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: John Baxter