Monthly Film Bulletin
March 1955
Vol. 22 No. 254
The Adventures of Hajji Baba
USA - 1954 - 86m - col / scope (2.55:1)
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Don Weis
4-channel stereo
Aleko
Алеко
(aka: Gypsies)
USSR - 1953 - 61m - col / 3-D
Gala (U)
D: Grigori Roshal, Sergei Sidelyov
The UK version distributed by Gala was 2-D only.
The Americano
USA - 1954 - 84m - col
RKO Radio (U) (cut)
D: William Castle
The Baker of Valorgue
Le boulanger de Valorgue
(USA: The Wild Oat)
France/Italy - 1952 - 104m - bw
Curzon (A)
D: Henri Verneuil
The Bamboo Prison
USA - 1954 - 79m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Lewis Seiler
The Black Forest
USA/W.Germany - 1954 - 76m - bw
Exclusive (A) (cut)
D: Gene Martel
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with cuts.
Black Widow
USA - 1954 - 95m - col / scope (2.55:1)
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Nunnally Johnson
4-channel stereo
Blazing Frontier
USA - 1943 - 58m - bw
Eros (U)
D: Sam Newfield
Series: Billy the Kid Outlawed (1940).
The Challenge
Across the Badlands
USA - 1950 - 54m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Fred F. Sears
Series: The Durango Kid (1940).
Chekhov
Чехов
USSR - 1954 - 60m - bw
Gala (U)
D: A. Leoniv
Cinderella
Золушка
USSR - 1947 - 85m - col
Gala (U)
D: Nadezhda Kosheverova, Mikhail Shapiro
The Colditz Story
UK - 1954 - 97m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Guy Hamilton
The Country Girl
USA - 1954 - 105m - bw
Paramount (A)
D: George Seaton
The Death of Michael Turbin
UK - 1954 - 52m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Bernard Knowles
Two episodes of the TV series Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Presents (1953-57), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
Series: The Triangle (1953, Jun/1953).
Désirée
USA - 1954 - 110m - col / scope (2.55:1)
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Henry Koster
4-channel stereo
Forever My Heart
UK - 1954 - 51m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Leslie Arliss, Bernard Knowles
Two episodes of the TV series Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Presents (1953-57), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
Series: The Triangle (1953, Jun/1953).
The Gilded Cage
UK - 1954 - 77m - bw
Eros (A) (cut)
D: John Gilling
Handcuffs, London
UK - 1955 - 76m - bw
Eros (U)
D: Bernard Knowles
Three episodes of the TV series Fabian of the Yard (1954-55), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
Film series: Fabian of the Yard (1954, Nov/1954).
The Human Jungle
USA - 1954 - 81m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Joseph M. Newman
Impulse
UK - 1954 - 80m - bw
Eros (A) (cut)
D: Charles de Lautour
Jungle Moon Men
USA - 1955 - 69m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Charles S. Gould
Series: Jungle Jim (1948, Jun/1949).
The Law vs. Billy the Kid
USA - 1954 - 71m - col
Columbia (U)
D: William Castle
Little Fugitive
USA - 1953 - 80m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Morris Engel, Ray Ashley, Ruth Orkin
Little Red Monkey
(USA: The Case of the Red Monkey)
UK - 1954 - 74m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (A) (cut)
D: Ken Hughes
Love, Soldiers and Women
Destinées
(USA: Daughters of Destiny)
France/Italy - 1953 - 114m - bw
Miracle (X) (cut)
D: Jean Delannoy, Marcel Pagliero, Christian-Jaque
The Man Who Loved Redheads
UK - 1954 - 90m - col
British Lion (A)
D: Harold French
Masterson of Kansas
USA - 1954 - 73m - col
Columbia (U)
D: William Castle
Monsieur Murderer
Identité judiciaire
(USA: Paris Vice Squad)
France - 1951 - 95m - bw
Films de France (X) (cut)
D: Hervé Bromberger
Nobody's Child
I figli di nessuno
(USA: Nobody's Children)
Italy/France - 1951 - 105m - bw
Gala-Cameo-Poly (A)
D: Raffaello Matarazzo
The Outlaw Stallion
USA - 1954 - 61m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Fred F. Sears
Out of the Clouds
UK - 1954 - 88m - col
General Film (U)
D: Michael Relph, Basil Dearden
Pattern for Murder
USA - 1955 - 54m - bw
Butcher's (A)
D: Paul Garrison
Two episodes of the TV series The Cases of Eddie Drake (1952), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
Series: The Brass Key (1953).
Perils of the Jungle
USA - 1953 - 63m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: George Blair
Phantom Caravan
USA - 1954 - 60m - bw
Exclusive (A)
D: Roy Rich
The Queen of Sheba
La regina di Saba
Italy - 1952 - 110m - bw
Eros (U)
D: Pietro Francisci
Rough Company
The Violent Men
USA - 1954 - 95m - col / scope (2.55:1)
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Rudolph Maté
4-channel stereo
Secret Venture
UK - 1954 - 68m - bw
Republic (U)
D: R.G. Springsteen
Shadow of a Man
UK - 1954 - 69m - bw
E.J. Fancey (A) (cut)
D: Michael McCarthy
Shield for Murder
USA - 1954 - 80m - bw
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Edmond O'Brien, Howard W. Koch
Simba
UK - 1955 - 99m - col
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Brian Desmond Hurst
Sitting Bull
USA - 1954 - 106m - col / scope (2.55:1)
United Artists (U)
D: Sidney Salkow
4-channel stereo
Six Bridges to Cross
USA - 1954 - 95m - bw
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Joseph Pevney
Teodora: Imperatrice di Bisanzio
[see: Theodora: Slave Empress]
Theodora: Slave Empress
Teodora
Italy/France - 1954 - 124m - col
Archway (A) (cut)
D: Riccardo Freda
This is My Love
USA - 1954 - 91m - col
RKO Radio (A) (cut)
D: Stuart Heisler
Three Women
Trois femmes
France - 1952 - 104m - bw
Films de France (A - London)
D: André Michel
Rejected by the BBFC in 1953, though a shortened version was passed by the London council.
Timberjack
USA - 1954 - 92m - col
Republic (U)
D: Joseph Kane
Tim Driscoll's Donkey
UK - 1954 - 59m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Terry Bishop
Track the Man Down
UK - 1954 - 75m - bw
Republic (A)
D: R.G. Springsteen
Unmarried Mothers
Ogift fader sökes
Sweden - 1953 - 107m - bw
Adelphi (X) (cut)
D: Bengt Logardt, Hans Dahlin
Welcome, Mr. Marshall!
Bienvenido Mister Marshall
Spain - 1952 - 95m - bw
Curzon (U)
D: Luis García Berlanga
The Winning Way
The All American
USA - 1953 - 83m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Jesse Hibbs
Women's Prison
USA - 1955 - 74m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Lewis Seiler
Young at Heart
USA - 1954 - 117m - col
Warner (U)
D: Gordon Douglas
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February 1955
Vol. 22 No. 253
African Manhunt
USA - 1954 - 59m - bw
Republic (U)
D: Seymour Friedman
Animal Farm
UK - 1954 - 73m - col
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: John Halas, Joy Batchelor
Armand and Michaela Denis Under the Southern Cross
UK - 1954 - 67m - col
General Film (U)
D: Armand Denis, Michaela Denis
Series: Below the Sahara (1953, Jul/1954).
The Black Rider
UK - 1954 - 65m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: Wolf Rilla
The Brain Machine
UK - 1954 - 83m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (A) (cut)
D: Ken Hughes
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
USA - 1954 - 104m - col
Paramount (A)
D: Mark Robson
Carmen Jones
USA - 1954 - 103m - col / scope (2.55:1)
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Otto Preminger
4-channel stereo
Children Galore
UK - 1954 - 60m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Terence Fisher
The Delavine Affair
(USA: Murder is News)
UK - 1954 - 64m - bw
Monarch (U)
D: Douglas Pierce
Destry
USA - 1954 - 95m - col
General Film (A) (cut)
D: George Marshall
Drum Beat
USA - 1954 - 106m - col / scope (2.55:1)
Warner (U)
D: Delmer Daves
4-channel stereo
Enticement
Sensualità
(aka: Barefoot Savage)
Italy - 1952 - 73m - bw
Archway (X) (cut)
D: Clemente Fracassi
The Fast and the Furious
USA - 1954 - 65m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Roger Corman
Fireman, Save My Child
USA - 1954 - 80m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Leslie Goodwins
The Golden Mistress
USA - 1954 - 80m - col
United Artists (U)
D: Abner Biberman [as: Joel Judge]
Green Fire
USA - 1954 - 100m - col / scope (2.55:1)
MGM (U)
D: Andrew Marton
4-channel stereo
Hell's Outpost
USA - 1954 - 88m - bw
Republic (U)
D: Joseph Kane
Khyber Patrol
USA - 1954 - 71m - col
United Artists (U)
D: Seymour Friedman
The Kid Colossus
Roogie's Bump
USA - 1954 - 71m - bw
Republic (U)
D: Harold Young
The Last Moment
UK - 1954 - 51m - bw
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: Lance Comfort
Two episodes of the TV series Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Presents (1953-57), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
Series: The Triangle (1953, Jun/1953).
The Last Time I Saw Paris
USA - 1954 - 116m - col
MGM (A)
D: Richard Brooks
Long John Silver
(aka: Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island)
Australia - 1954 - 106m - col / scope (2.55:1)
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Byron Haskin
Series: Treasure Island (1949, Jul/50).
4-channel stereo
The Lyons in Paris
(USA: The Lyons Abroad)
UK - 1954 - 81m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Val Guest
Series: Life With the Lyons (1953, Mar/1954).
Mystery on Bird Island
UK - 1954 - 57m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: John Haggerty
One Good Turn
UK - 1954 - 90m - bw
General Film (U)
D: John Paddy Carstairs
The Slave
L'esclave
France/Italy - 1953 - 106m - bw
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Yves Ciampi
So This is Paris
USA - 1954 - 96m - col
General Film (U)
D: Richard Quine
Svengali
UK - 1954 - 82m - col
Renown (A)
D: Noel Langley
There's No Business Like Show Business
USA - 1954 - 117m - col / scope (2.55:1)
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Walter Lang
4-channel stereo
To Paris With Love
UK - 1954 - 78m - col
General Film (A) (cut)
D: Robert Hamer
The Ungrateful Heart
Cuore 'ngrato
(aka: The Naked and the Wicked)
Italy - 1951 - 110m - bw
Regent (A) (cut)
D: Guido Brignone
The White Devil
Il diavolo bianco
Italy - 1947 - 100m - bw
Regent (U)
D: Nunzio Malasomma
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January 1955
Vol. 22 No. 252
3 Ring Circus
USA - 1954 - 108m - col / VistaVision
Paramount (U)
D: Joseph Pevney
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
USA - 1954 - 79m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Charles Lamont
Africa Adventure
USA - 1954 - 64m - col
RKO Radio (U)
D: Robert C. Ruark
Athena
USA - 1954 - 96m - col
MGM (U)
D: Richard Thorpe
The Bandit Trail
USA - 1941 - 60m - bw
RKO Radio (U)
D: Edward Killy
Beau Brummell
UK - 1954 - 111m - col
MGM (U)
D: Curtis Bernhardt
Carrington V.C.
(USA: Court Martial)
UK - 1954 - 106m - bw
Independent / British Lion (A)
D: Anthony Asquith
The Charge is Murder
Atto di accusa
(aka: The Accusation)
Italy - 1950 - 99m - bw
Regent (A)
D: Giacomo Gentilomo
Creature From the Black Lagoon
USA - 1954 - 79m - bw / 3-D
General Film (X)
D: Jack Arnold
The UK version distributed by General Film was 2-D only.
Followed by: Revenge of the Creature (1955, Feb/1956), The Creature Walks Among Us (1956, Apr/1957).
Dangerous Woman
Bufere
Italy/France - 1953 - 92m - bw
Gala-Cameo-Poly (X)
D: Guido Brignone
Destination Milan
UK - 1954 - 78m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Lawrence Huntington, Leslie Arliss, John Gilling
Three episodes of the TV series Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Presents (1953-57), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
Series: The Triangle (1953, Jun/1953).
Double Profile
Second Face
W.Germany/USA (TV) - 1954 - 80m - bw
Exclusive (U) (cut)
D: Roy Rich
Une fille dangereuse
[see: Dangerous Woman]
Four Guns to the Border
USA - 1954 - 81m - col
General Film (U) (cut)
D: Richard Carlson
Fury at Red Gulch
USA - 1953 - 52m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Lew Landers
Three episodes of the TV series The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951-52), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
Series: Prince of Padua Hills (1953).
The Golden Idol
USA - 1954 - 68m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Ford Beebe
Series: Bomba the Jungle Boy (1949, Nov/1949).
The Great Adventure
Det stora äventyret
Sweden - 1953 - 94m - bw
Films de France (U)
D: Arne Sucksdorff
Hansel and Gretel
USA - 1954 - 73m - col
RKO Radio (U)
D: John Paul
Human Desire
USA - 1954 - 91m - bw
Columbia (X)
D: Fritz Lang
Land of Hunted Men
USA - 1943 - 59m - bw
Monarch (U)
D: S. Roy Luby
Series: The Range Busters (1940, Mar/1949).
Lilacs in the Spring
(USA: Let's Make Up)
UK - 1954 - 94m - col
Republic (U)
D: Herbert Wilcox
Make Me an Offer
UK - 1954 - 88m - col
British Lion (U)
D: Cyril Frankel
Mask of Dust
(USA: Race for Life)
UK - 1954 - 79m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Terence Fisher
Mixed Justice
Two Fisted Justice
USA - 1943 - 54m - bw
Monarch (U)
D: Robert Emmett Tansey
Series: The Range Busters (1940, Mar/1949).
Northern Patrol
USA - 1953 - 63m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Rex Bailey
Series: The Wolf Hunters (1949, Jun/1950).
Oilmen of the Caspian Sea
Повесть о нефтяниках Каспия
(USA: The Caspian Story)
USSR - 1953 - 52m - col
Gala (U)
D: Roman Karmen
Passing Stranger
UK - 1954 - 67m - bw
Independent / British Lion (A) (cut)
D: John Arnold
Phffft
USA - 1954 - 88m - bw
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Mark Robson
Rebel City
USA - 1953 - 62m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (U)
D: Thomas Carr
Ridin' the Outlaw Trail
USA - 1951 - 56m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Fred F. Sears
Series: The Durango Kid (1940).
The Sheep Has Five Legs
Le mouton a cinq pattes
France - 1954 - 104m - bw
Miracle (A) (cut)
D: Henri Verneuil
Sicilian Story
Gli inesorabili
(USA: The Fighting Men)
Italy - 1950 - 97m - bw
Regent (U)
D: Camillo Mastrocinque, Roberto Savarese
Sign of the Pagan
USA - 1954 - 92m - col / scope (2.55:1)
General Film (U) (cut)
D: Douglas Sirk
4-channel stereo
Souls in Conflict
UK - 1954 - 75m - col
Billy Graham Evangelistic Films (U)
D: Leonard Reeve, Dick Ross
A Star is Born
USA - 1954 - 182m - col / scope (2.55:1)
Warner (A)
D: George Cukor
4-channel stereo
Three Hours to Kill
USA - 1954 - 76m - col
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Alfred L. Werker
Three Ring Circus
[see: 3 Ring Circus]
Thrill of the Ring
USA - 1953 - 50m - bw
Anglo-Amalgamated (A) (cut)
D: Frank Wisbar
Two episodes of the TV series Fireside Theatre (1949-58), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
Thunder Over Inyo
USA - 1954 - 52m - bw
Exclusive (U)
D: Lew Landers
Two episodes of the TV series The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951-52), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
Series: Prince of Padua Hills (1953).
To Dorothy a Son
(USA: Cash on Delivery)
UK - 1954 - 84m - bw
Independent / British Lion (U)
D: Muriel Box
Umberto D.
Italy - 1952 - 89m - bw
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: Vittorio De Sica
Under the Caribbean
Unternehmen Xarifa
Switzerland - 1954 - 81m - col
British Lion (U)
D: Hugo Hass
Vengeance in the Saddle
Bullets and Saddles
USA - 1943 - 56m - bw
Monarch (U)
D: Anthony Marshall
Series: The Range Busters (1940, Mar/1949).
Woman's World
USA - 1954 - 94m - col / scope (2.55:1)
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Jean Negulesco
4-channel stereo
Women Without Hope
Marchandes d'illusions
(aka: Nights of Shame)
France - 1954 - 88m - bw
Gala-Cameo-Poly (X) (cut)
D: Raoul André
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December 1954
Vol. 21 No. 251
The Anna Cross
Анна на шее
USSR - 1954 - 86m - col
Gala (U)
D: Isidor Annensky
Aunt Clara
UK - 1954 - 84m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Anthony Kimmins
The Barefoot Contessa
UK/Italy - 1954 - 128m - col
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The Bounty Hunter
USA - 1954 - 78m - col / 3-D
Warner (A)
D: André De Toth
The UK version distributed by Warner was 2-D only.
Bread, Love and Dreams
Pane amore e fantasia
Italy - 1953 - 93m - bw
Curzon (A)
D: Luigi Comencini
Followed by: Bread, Love and Jealousy (1954, Jan/1956), Scandal in Sorrento (1955, Apr/1957), Vive Amore (1958, Apr/1961).
A Bullet is Waiting
USA - 1954 - 81m - col
Columbia (U)
D: John Farrow
Cat-Women of the Moon
USA - 1953 - 64m - bw / 3-D
Exclusive (U)
D: Arthur Hilton
The UK version distributed by Exclusive was 2-D only.
Child's Play
UK - 1954 - 68m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Margaret Thomson
Destination Danger
Eyes of the Jungle
USA - 1953 - 80m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Paul Landres
Three episodes of the TV series Ramar of the Jungle (1952-54), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
Series: White Goddess (1953, Jun/53).
The Divided Heart
UK - 1954 - 89m - bw
General Film (U)
D: Charles Crichton
Down Three Dark Streets
USA - 1954 - 85m - bw
United Artists (U)
D: Arnold Laven
Dragnet
USA - 1954 - 88m - col
Warner (A) (cut)
D: Jack Webb
The Egyptian
USA - 1954 - 139m - col / scope (2.55:1)
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Michael Curtiz
4-channel stereo
Fatal Affaire
Les amours finissent à l'aube
France - 1953 - 102m - bw
Astarte (A) (cut)
D: Henri Calef
The Green Buddha
UK - 1954 - 62m - bw
Republic (U)
D: John Lemont
The Happiness of Three Women
(USA: Wishing Well)
UK - 1954 - 78m - bw
Adelphi (U)
D: Maurice Elvey
Kyriakatiko Xypnima
[see: Windfall in Athens]
Mad About Men
UK - 1954 - 90m - col
General Film (U)
D: Ralph Thomas
Series: Miranda (1948, Apr/1948).
Magnificent Obsession
USA - 1954 - 108m - col
General Film (U)
D: Douglas Sirk
Martin Luther
USA/W.Germany - 1953 - 106m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Irving Pichel
The Men of Sherwood Forest
UK - 1954 - 77m - col
Exclusive (U)
D: Val Guest
My Apprenticeship
В людях
(USA: On His Own)
USSR - 1939 - 100m - bw
Gala (U)
D: Mark Donskoy
Series: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938, Dec/1943).
Neapolitan Fantasy
Carosello napoletano
(USA: Neapolitan Carousel)
Italy - 1954 - 124m - col
Archway (U)
D: Ettore Giannini
New Faces
USA - 1954 - 99m - col / scope (2.55:1)
British Lion (U)
D: Harry Horner
4-channel stereo
Passion
USA - 1954 - 82m - col
RKO Radio (U) (cut)
D: Allan Dwan
Pirate Submarine
Casabianca
France - 1951 - 84m - col
New Realm (U)
D: Georges Péclet
Private Hell 36
USA - 1954 - 80m - bw
Exclusive (A) (cut)
D: Don Siegel
Return to Treasure Island
USA - 1954 - 75m - col
United Artists (U) (cut)
D: Ewald André Dupont
Ring of Fear
USA - 1954 - 88m - col / scope (2.55:1)
Warner (A) (cut)
D: James Edward Grant
4-channel stereo
Riot in Cell Block 11
USA - 1954 - 80m - bw
Associated British-Pathé (X) (cut)
D: Don Siegel
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with cuts. The uncut version was 'approved' for video in 1985.
Robot Monster
(aka: Monsters From the Moon)
USA - 1953 - 63m - bw / 3-D
Exclusive (U)
D: Phil Tucker
The UK version distributed by Exclusive was 2-D only.
Rogue Cop
USA - 1954 - 88m - bw
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Roy Rowland
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
UK - 1954 - 93m - bw
Eros (U)
D: Lewis Gilbert
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
USA - 1954 - 102m - col / scope (2.55:1)
MGM (U)
D: Stanley Donen
Converted to 70mm for 1968 re-release.
4-channel stereo
Silver Lode
USA - 1954 - 81m - col
RKO Radio (A)
D: Allan Dwan
The Student Prince
USA - 1954 - 107m - col / scope (2.55:1)
MGM (U)
D: Richard Thorpe
4-channel stereo
The Teckman Mystery
UK - 1954 - 90m - bw
British Lion (U)
D: Wendy Toye
Tennessee Champ
USA - 1953 - 70m - col
MGM (U)
D: Fred M. Wilcox
That Man From Tangier
USA/Spain - 1953 - 82m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Robert Elwyn, Luis María Delgado
We, the Women
Siamo donne
(USA: Of Life and Love)
Italy - 1953 - 102m - bw
Gala-Cameo-Poly (U)
D: Gianni Franciolini, Alfredo Guarini, Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Luigi Zampa
Windfall in Athens
Κυριακάτικο Ξύπνημα
Greece - 1953 - 94m - bw
Gala-Cameo-Poly (U)
D: Mihalis Kakogiannis [as: Michael Cacoyannis]
The Yellow Mountain
USA - 1954 - 76m - col
General Film (U)
D: Jesse Hibbs
The Yellow Tomahawk
USA - 1954 - 80m - col
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Lesley Selander
