Monthly Film Bulletin
January 1964
Vol. 31 No. 360
Bad Girl
Louisiana Hussy
USA - 1959 - 80m - bw
Regal (A) (cut)
D: Lee Sholem
Between Love and Duty
Le bois des amants
(USA: Lovers Woods)
France/Italy - 1960 - 96m - bw
E.J. Fancey (U)
D: Claude Autant-Lara
Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler
USA - 1962 - 89m - bw
Contemporary (X) (cut)
D: Louis Clyde Stoumen
Charge of the Black Lancers
I lancieri neri
Italy/France - 1961 - 97m - col / scope
E.J. Fancey (U)
D: Giacomo Gentilomo
The Counterfeiters
Le cave se rebiffe
(USA: The Counterfeiters of Paris)
France/Italy - 1961 - 98m - bw
Gala (X)
D: Gilles Grangier
Diary of a Madman
USA - 1962 - 96m - col
United Artists (X)
D: Reginald Le Borg
The Eyes of Annie Jones
UK/USA - 1963 - 71m - bw
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Reginald Le Borg
Family Diary
Cronaca familiare
(aka: Family Portrait)
Italy - 1962 - 122m - col
Gala (A)
D: Valerio Zurlini
The Haunting
USA - 1963 - 112m - bw / scope
MGM (X)
D: Robert Wise
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
USA - 1963 - 192m - col / Ultra Panavision 70
United Artists (U)
D: Stanley Kramer
Some prints screened in 70mm Cinerama.
6-channel stereo
Knights of the Teutonic Order
Krzyżacy
(USA: Black Cross)
(aka: Black Order)
Poland - 1960 - 180m - col / scope
Contemporary (A) (cut)
D: Aleksandr Ford
The Leopard
Il gattopardo
Italy/France - 1962 - 205m - col / Super Technirama 70
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Luchino Visconti
Also reviewed: Dec 1983.
Live It Up!
(USA: Sing and Swing)
UK - 1963 - 74m - bw
Rank (U)
D: Lance Comfort
Followed by: Be My Guest (1965, May/1965).
The Shame of Patty Smith
Patty
(aka: Case of Patty Smith)
(aka: Doctor Please Help Me)
(aka: Gang Rape)
USA - 1961 - 93m - bw
Grand National (X) (cut)
D: Leo A. Handel
A Stitch in Time
UK - 1963 - 94m - bw
Rank (U) (cut)
D: Robert Asher
The Stranger
The Intruder
(aka: I Hate Your Guts!)
(aka: Shame)
USA - 1961 - 84m - bw
Grand National (X) (cut)
D: Roger Corman
Also reviewed: Jul 1990.
Sword of the Conqueror
Rosmunda e Alboino
Italy - 1961 - 105m - col / scope
United Artists (A) (cut)
D: Carlo Campogalliano
Take Her, She's Mine
USA - 1963 - 98m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Nunnally Johnson
Toys in the Attic
USA - 1963 - 90m - bw / scope
United Artists (X) (cut)
D: George Roy Hill
The Trial
Le procès
France/W.Germany/Italy - 1962 - 120m - bw
British Lion (X)
D: Orson Welles
The Victors
USA - 1963 - 175m - bw / scope
Columbia (X)
D: Carl Foreman
4-channel stereo
Wives and Lovers
USA - 1963 - 103m - bw
Paramount (X)
D: John Rich
Monthly Film Bulletin
December 1963
Vol. 30 No. 359
Les abysses
France - 1962 - 96m - bw
Gala (X)
D: Nico Papatakis
The Balcony
USA - 1963 - 86m - bw
British Lion (X)
D: Joseph Strick
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed uncut.
Black Zoo
USA - 1963 - 88m - col / scope
Warner-Pathé (X) (cut)
D: Robert Gordon
Blaze of Glory
UK - 1963 - 57m - bw
Golden Era (U)
D: Robert Lynn
Bye Bye Birdie
USA - 1963 - 111m - col / scope
Columbia (U)
D: George Sidney
4-channel stereo
Cash on Demand
UK - 1961 - 66m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Quentin Lawrence
Echo of Diana
UK - 1963 - 61m - bw
Butcher's (U)
D: Ernest Morris
Face in the Rain
USA - 1962 - 81m - bw
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Irvin Kershner
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Cash on Demand
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Fun in Acapulco
USA - 1963 - 97m - col
Paramount (U)
D: Richard Thorpe
Gidget Goes to Rome
USA - 1962 - 104m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Paul Wendkos
Series: Gidget (1959, Jun/1959).
Girl in the Headlines
(USA: The Model Murder Case)
UK - 1963 - 93m - bw
British Lion / Bryanston (A) (cut)
D: Michael Truman
Invasion of the Normans
I normanni
(USA: Attack of the Normans)
(aka: Conquest of the Normans)
Italy/W.Germany/France - 1962 - 86m - col / scope
Compton-Cameo (U)
D: Giuseppe Vari
Island of Love
USA - 1963 - 101m - col / scope
Warner-Pathé (U)
D: Morton DaCosta
Love and Larceny
Il mattatore
Italy - 1959 - 105m - bw / scope
Regal (A)
D: Dino Risi
The Man From the Diners' Club
USA - 1963 - 95m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Frank Tashlin
The Man Who Finally Died
UK - 1962 - 100m - bw / scope
British Lion / Magna (A) (cut)
D: Quentin Lawrence
The Russian Miracle Part I: Out of the Past
Das russische Wunder I
E.Germany - 1963 - 115m - bw
Plato (A)
D: Anneliese Thorndike, Andrew Thorndike
Followed by: The Russian Miracle Part 2: Into the Future (1963, May/1964).
The Servant
UK - 1963 - 115m - bw
Warner-Pathé (X)
D: Joseph Losey
The Shadow of Zorro
L'ombra di Zorro
Italy/Spain/France - 1962 - 87m - col / scope
Compton-Cameo (U)
D: Joaquín Romero Marchent
The Silent Raid
De overval
Netherlands - 1962 - 97m - bw
Rank (U)
D: Paul Rotha
A Sordid Affair
Un maledetto imbroglio
(USA: The Facts of Murder)
Italy - 1959 - 114m - bw
Gala (A)
D: Pietro Germi
Strip Tease Murder
UK - 1961 - 66m - bw
Paramount (X) (cut)
D: Ernest Morris
Thunder Island
USA - 1963 - 65m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Jack Leewood
Vengeance
(USA: The Brain)
UK/W.Germany - 1962 - 83m - bw
British Lion / Garrick (A) (cut)
D: Freddie Francis
Weekend
Denmark - 1962 - 84m - bw
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt
What a Crazy World
UK - 1963 - 88m - bw / scope
Warner-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Michael Carreras
Women of the World
La donna nel mondo
Italy - 1962 - 110m - col
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Gaultiero Jacopetti
World by Night No. 2
Il mondo di notte numero 2
Italy - 1961 - 118m - col / Super Technirama 70
Warner-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Gianni Proia
Series: World by Night (1960, Jun/1961).
The Young and the Brave
USA - 1963 - 84m - bw
MGM (U)
D: Francis D. Lyon
Zorro and the Three Musketeers
Zorro e i tre moschettieri
(USA: Mask of the Musketeers)
Italy - 1962 - 99m - col / scope
Golden Era (U)
D: Luigi Capuano
Monthly Film Bulletin
November 1963
Vol. 30 No. 358
L'assassino
(USA: The Assassin)
(aka: The Ladykiller of Rome)
Italy/France - 1961 - 105m - bw
Connoisseur (X)
D: Elio Petri
Bitter Harvest
UK - 1963 - 96m - col
Rank (X)
D: Peter Graham Scott
A Bomb Was Stolen
S-a furat o bomba
Romania - 1962 - 65m - bw
Connoisseur (A)
D: Ion Popescu-Gopo
Breath of Life
UK - 1962 - 67m - bw
British Lion (A) (cut)
D: J. Henry Paperno
The Castilian
El valle de las espadas
Spain/USA - 1962 - 128m - col
British Lion (U)
D: Javier Setó
Conscience Bay
UK - 1960 - 60m - bw
Cross-Channel (A)
D: Norman Thaddeus Vane
From Russia With Love
UK - 1963 - 116m - col
United Artists (A)
D: Terence Young
Series: Dr. No (1962, Oct/1962).
House of the Damned
USA - 1963 - 63m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (X)
D: Maury Dexter
The Informers
(USA: Underworld Informers)
UK - 1963 - 105m - bw
Rank (X) (cut)
D: Ken Annakin
In the Cool of the Day
USA - 1962 - 91m - col / scope
MGM (A) (cut)
D: Robert Stevens
In the French Style
USA/France - 1962 - 105m - bw
Columbia (X) (cut)
D: Robert Parrish
Journey Into Nowhere
UK - 1962 - 67m - bw
Planet (A) (cut)
D: Denis Scully
King Kong tai Godzilla
[see: King Kong vs. Godzilla]
King Kong vs. Godzilla
キングコング対ゴジラ
Japan - 1962 - 99m - col / scope
Rank / Universal-International (X)
D: Ishirō Honda (US version: Thomas Montgomery)
Series: Godzilla (1954, Feb/1957).
A New Kind of Love
USA - 1963 - 109m - col
Paramount (A) (cut)
D: Melville Shavelson
Operation Camel
Soldaterkammerater på vagt
Sweden - 1960 - 100m - col
Compton-Cameo (U)
D: Sven Methling
Series: Soldaterkammerater (1958).
Ophélia
France - 1962 - 105m - bw
Sebricon (A)
D: Claude Chabrol
The Partner
UK - 1963 - 58m - bw
Warner-Pathé / Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Gerald Glaister
Series: Urge to Kill (1960, May/1960).
Police Nurse
UK - 1963 - 63m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (X) (cut)
D: Maury Dexter
Queen of the Pirates
La Venere dei pirati
Italy/W.Germany - 1960 - 85m - col / scope
Columbia (U)
D: Mario Costa
She Got What She Asked For
La bellezza d'Ippolita
(USA: Curves in the Road)
Italy/France - 1962 - 96m - bw
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Giancarlo Zagni
The Sky Above - The Mud Below
Le ciel et la boue
France/Liechtenstein - 1960 - 92m - col
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau
The Terror of Dr. Hichcock
L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock
(USA: The Horrible Dr. Hichcock)
Italy - 1962 - 88m - col
Compton-Cameo (X) (cut)
D: Riccardo Freda [as: Robert Hampton]
The Three Stooges in Orbit
USA - 1962 - 87m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Edward L. Bernds
The Thrill of It All
USA - 1963 - 108m - col
Rank / Universal-International (A)
D: Norman Jewison
The Train Robbers
O Assalto ao Trem Pagador
(USA: Assault on the Pay Train)
(aka: Train Robbery Confidential)
Brazil - 1962 - 102m - bw
Miracle (A)
D: Roberto Farias
Two Tickets to Paris
USA - 1962 - 90m - bw
Columbia (U)
D: Greg Garrison
Unearthly Stranger
UK - 1963 - 75m - bw
Warner-Pathé / Anglo-Amalgamated (A) (cut)
D: John Krish
Until Hell is Frozen
Der Teufel spielte Balalaika
W.Germany/France - 1960 - 122m - bw / scope
DUK (A)
D: Leopold Lahola
West 11
UK - 1963 - 93m - bw
Warner-Pathé (X) (cut)
D: Michael Winner
The World Ten Times Over
(aka: Pussycat Alley)
UK - 1963 - 93m - bw
Warner-Pathé (X) (cut)
D: Wolf Rilla
Monthly Film Bulletin
October 1963
Vol. 30 No. 357
8½
Italy - 1963 - 138m - bw
Gala (A)
D: Federico Fellini
Also reviewed: Jan 1990.
Achilles
L'ira di Achille
(USA: Fury of Achilles)
Italy - 1962 - 114m - col / scope
Golden Era (U)
D: Marino Girolami
Angel Baby
USA - 1960 - 97m - bw
Crusader (X)
D: Paul Wendkos
The Atomic Submarine
USA - 1959 - 72m - bw
Crusader (A) (cut)
D: Spencer Gordon Bennet
Carry On Cabby
UK - 1963 - 91m - bw
Warner-Pathé / Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Gerald Thomas
Series: Carry On Sergeant (1958, Sep/1958).
The Condemned of Altona
I sequestrati di Altona
Italy/France - 1962 - 113m - bw
20th Century Fox (A) (cut)
D: Vittorio De Sica
The Cosmic Man
USA - 1958 - 72m - bw
Crusader (U)
D: Herbert Greene
Dr. Crippen
UK - 1962 - 98m - bw
Warner-Pathé (X)
D: Robert Lynn
Evils of Chinatown
Confessions of an Opium Eater
USA - 1962 - 85m - bw
Crusader (X) (cut)
D: Albert Zugsmith
For Love or Money
USA - 1963 - 108m - col
Rank (A)
D: Michael Gordon
Freud
USA - 1962 - 140m - bw
Rank (X)
D: John Huston
Freud: The Secret Passion
[see: Freud]
Jail Break
A cavallo della tigre
(aka: On the Tiger's Back)
Italy - 1961 - 120m - bw
Miracle (A)
D: Luigi Comencini
Jason and the Golden Fleece
I giganti di Tessaglia (Gli Argonauti)
(USA: The Giants of Thessaly [The Argonauts])
Italy/France - 1960 - 97m - col / scope
Compton-Cameo (U)
D: Riccardo Freda
Nazarín
Mexico - 1958 - 94m - bw
Contemporary (A)
D: Luis Buñuel
Paranoiac
UK - 1963 - 80m - bw / scope
Rank (X) (cut)
D: Freddie Francis
Please, Not Now!
La bride sur la cou
(aka: Only for Love)
France/Italy - 1961 - 85m - bw / scope
20th Century Fox (X) (cut)
D: Roger Vadim, Jean Aurel, J.D. Trop
Pressure Point
USA - 1962 - 88m - bw
United Artists (X) (cut)
D: Hubert Cornfield
Rampage
USA - 1962 - 99m - col
Warner-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Phil Karlson
The Raven
USA - 1963 - 86m - col / scope
Warner-Pathé / Anglo-Amalgamated (X)
D: Roger Corman
Recoil
USA (TV) - 1963 - 88m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Paul Wendkos
Two episodes of the TV series The Detectives (1959-62), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
The Seventh Sword
Le sette spade del vendicatore
Italy/France - 1962 - 84m - col / scope
New Realm (A) (cut)
D: Riccardo Freda
Station Six-Sahara
UK/W.Germany - 1962 - 101m - bw
British Lion (X) (cut)
D: Seth Holt
Studs Lonigan
USA - 1960 - 103m - bw
United Artists (X)
D: Irving Lerner
Suleiman the Conqueror
Solimano il conquistatore
Italy/Yugoslavia - 1961 - 91m - col / scope
Compton-Cameo (A) (cut)
D: Mario Tota, Vatroslav Mimica
The Sword of El Cid
La spada del Cid
Italy/Spain - 1962 - 85m - col / scope
Compton-Cameo (U)
D: Miguel Iglesias
The V.I.P.s
UK - 1963 - 119m - col / scope
MGM (A)
D: Anthony Asquith
Wall of Noise
USA - 1963 - 112m - bw
Warner-Pathé (A)
D: Richard Wilson
War Hunt
USA - 1961 - 83m - bw
United Artists (A)
D: Denis Sanders
Monthly Film Bulletin
September 1963
Vol. 30 No. 356
80,000 Suspects
UK - 1963 - 113m - bw / scope
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Val Guest
The Bay of St. Michael
(USA: Operation Mermaid)
UK - 1963 - 73m - bw
Rank (U)
D: John Ainsworth
Billy Liar
UK - 1963 - 98m - bw / scope
Warner-Pathé / Anglo-Amalgamated (A) (cut)
D: John Schlesinger
The Birds
USA - 1963 - 119m - col
Rank / Universal-International (X)
D: Alfred Hitchcock
Followed by: The Birds II: Land's End (1993).
Bomb in the High Street
UK - 1963 - 60m - bw
Rank (U)
D: Terry Bishop, Peter Bezencenet
California
USA - 1962 - 75m - bw
Warner-Pathé / Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Hamil Petroff
Career Girl
USA - 1959 - 61m - col
Compton Cameo (Banned)
D: Harold David
Rejected twice by the BBFC under two different titles, Hot Car Girl (submitted by Associated British-Pathé) and Hide Out in the Sun (Air Express), but screened in London in 1963 with a certificate from the local council.
Cleopatra
USA - 1963 - 243m - col / Todd-AO
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
6-channel stereo
Doctor in Distress
UK - 1963 - 102m - col
Rank (A) (cut)
D: Ralph Thomas
Series: Doctor in the House (1954, May/1954).
Eve
Eva
France/Italy - 1962 - 135m - bw
Gala (X)
D: Joseph Losey
Farewell Performance
UK - 1963 - 73m - bw
Rank (A)
D: Robert Tronson
Fidelio
Austria - 1956 - 88m - bw
Contemporary (U)
D: Walter Felsenstein
The Final Hour
USA (TV) - 1962 - 74m - col
Rank (U)
D: Robert Douglas
Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of The Virginian (1962-71).
Series: The Brazen Bell (1962, May/63).
It's Hot in Hell
Un singe en hiver
(USA: A Monkey in Winter)
France - 1962 - 102m - bw / scope
Gala (A)
D: Henri Verneuil
Jason and the Argonauts
UK - 1963 - 103m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Don Chaffey
The Mistress
Älskarinnan
Sweden - 1962 - 77m - bw / scope
Gala (X)
D: Vilgot Sjöman
Operation Bikini
USA - 1963 - 84m - bw
Warner-Pathé / Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Anthony Carras
Papa's Delicate Condition
USA - 1962 - 98m - col
Paramount (U)
D: George Marshall
The Passionate Thief
Risate di gioia
Italy - 1960 - 105m - bw
Gala (A)
D: Mario Monicelli
PT 109
USA - 1962 - 139m - col / scope
Warner-Pathé (U)
D: Leslie H. Martinson
Savage Sam
USA - 1962 - 104m - col
Walt Disney (U)
D: Norman Tokar
Series: Old Yeller (1957, May/1958).
Siege of the Saxons
UK - 1963 - 85m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Nathan Juran
Tamahine
UK - 1962 - 95m - col / scope
Warner-Pathé (A) (cut)
D: Philip Leacock
Vice and Virtue
Le vice et la virtu
France/Italy - 1962 - 105m - bw / scope
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Roger Vadim
Young Guns of Texas
USA - 1962 - 76m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Maury Dexter
