Monthly Film Bulletin
August 1965
Vol. 32 No. 379
Adventures of the Bengal Lancers
I tre sergenti del bengala
(aka: Three Sergeants of Bengal)
Italy/Spain - 1963 - 96m - col / scope
Eagle (U)
D: Umberto Lenzi [as: Humphrey Humbert]
Arm of Fire
Il colosso di Roma
(USA: Hero of Rome)
Italy - 1964 - 89m - col / scope
Eagle (U)
D: Giorgio Ferroni
Bikini Beach
USA - 1964 - 99m - col / scope
Warner-Pathé / Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: William Asher
Series: Beach Party (1963, Sep/1964).
Le bonheur
(aka: Happiness)
France - 1965 - 79m - col
Gala (X)
D: Agnès Varda
The Brigand of Kandahar
UK - 1965 - 81m - col / scope
Warner-Pathé (U) (cut)
D: John Gilling
Catch Us If You Can
(USA: Having a Wild Weekend)
UK - 1965 - 91m - bw
Warner-Pathé / Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: John Boorman
Coast of Skeletons
UK - 1964 - 91m - col / scope
British Lion (U)
D: Robert Lynn
Crooks in Clover
Les tontons flingueurs
(aka: Monsieur Gangster)
France/W.Germany/Italy - 1963 - 110m - bw
Connoisseur (A)
D: Georges Lautner
The Disorderly Orderly
USA - 1964 - 89m - col
Paramount (U)
D: Frank Tashlin
Dr. Who and the Daleks
UK - 1965 - 83m - col / scope
British Lion / Regal (U)
D: Gordon Flemyng
Followed by: Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966, Aug/1966).
Genghis Khan
USA/W.Germany/Yugoslavia - 1964 - 126m - col / scope
Columbia (A) (cut)
D: Henry Levin
35mm and 70mm release prints.
Go! Go! Go! World
Il pelo nel mondo
(USA: Mondo Inferno)
(aka: Weird, Wicked World)
Italy - 1964 - 89m - col
Compton-Cameo (X) (cut)
D: Antonio Margheriti [as: Anthony M. Dawson], Marco Vicario, Renato Marvi
The Golden Arrow
La freccia d'oro
Italy - 1962 - 91m - col / Technirama
MGM (U)
D: Antonio Margheriti
Harlow
USA - 1965 - 126m - col / scope
Paramount (X)
D: Gordon Douglas
How to Murder Your Wife
USA - 1964 - 118m - col
United Artists (A)
D: Richard Quine
Image of Love
USA - 1963 - 95m - col
Contemporary (X)
D: Louis Clyde Stoumen
Jungle Adventurer
La montagna di luce
(USA: Temple of a Thousand Lights)
(aka: Sandok)
(aka: Temple of the White Elephants)
Italy/France - 1964 - 105m - col / scope
Leap (U)
D: Umberto Lenzi
Also reviewed: Jul 1966.
The Monkey's Uncle
USA - 1965 - 91m - col
Walt Disney (U)
D: Robert Stevenson
Series: The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1963, Sep/1964).
Rotten to the Core
UK - 1965 - 88m - bw / scope
British Lion (A)
D: John Boulting
Seduction of Julia
Julia: Du bist zauberhaft
(USA: Adorable Julia)
Austria/France - 1962 - 97m - bw
DUK (A)
D: Alfred Weidenmann
A Shop on the High Street
Obchod na korze
(USA: The Shop on Main Street)
Czechoslovakia - 1964 - 128m - bw
Contemporary (A)
D: Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
Soldier in the Rain
USA - 1963 - 87m - bw
Warner-Pathé (U)
D: Ralph Nelson
Tickle Me
USA - 1965 - 90m - col / scope
Warner-Pathe (U)
D: Norman Taurog
Tiko and the Shark
Ti-Koyo e il suo pescecane
Italy/France - 1962 - 100m - col
MGM (U)
D: Folco Quilici
Traitor's Gate
UK/W.Germany - 1965 - 87m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Freddie Francis
Vendetta
Joaquín Murrieta
(USA: Murieta)
Spain - 1964 - 107m - col
Warner-Pathé (U)
D: George Sherman
Von Ryan's Express
USA - 1965 - 114m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Mark Robson
When Strangers Meet
Einer Frisst den anderen
(USA: Dog Eat Dog!)
W.Germany/Italy/Liechtenstein - 1964 - 78m - bw
E.J. Fancey (X) (cut)
D: Gustav Gavrin, Albert Zugsmith (English version: Richard E. Cunha)
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Agent secret FX 18
[see: Secret Agent F.X. 18]
The Art of Love
USA - 1965 - 99m - col
Rank (A)
D: Norman Jewison
Bay of the Angels
La baie des anges
France - 1962 - 85m - bw / scope
Connoisseur (A)
D: Jacques Demy
The Black Tulip
La tulipe noire
France/Italy/Spain - 1964 - 115m - col / Superpanorama 70
Cinerama (U)
D: Christian-Jaque
Some UK prints screened in 70mm Cinerama.
6-channel stereo
Curse of Simba
(USA: Curse of the Voodoo)
UK - 1964 - 61m - bw
Gala (A) (cut)
D: Lindsay Shonteff
Daylight Robbery
UK - 1964 - 57m - bw
Children's Film Foundation (U)
D: Michael Truman
Decision at Midnight
(aka: Music at Midnight)
USA - 1963 - 93m - bw
MRA (U)
D: Lewis Allen
Devil Doll
UK - 1963 - 80m - bw
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Lindsay Shonteff
FX 18: Agent secret
[see: Secret Agent F.X. 18]
Game for Three Losers
UK - 1965 - 55m - bw
Warner-Pathé / Anglo-Amalgamated (A) (cut)
D: Gerry O'Hara
The Golden Goddess of Rio Beni
Die goldene Göttin vom Rio Beni
W.Germany/France/Spain/Brazil - 1964 - 91m - col / scope
Miracle (A)
D: Franz Eichhorn, Eugenio Martín
Graduation Ball
Baile de graduación
Mexico - 1963 - 80m - col
Rank (U)
D: Carlos Toussaint
The Hand in the Trap
La mano en la trampa
Argentina/Spain - 1961 - 90m - bw
Academy / Connoisseur (A)
D: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
Hercules and the Masked Rider
Golia e il cavaliere mascherato
(aka: Hercules and the Black Knight)
Italy - 1963 - 85m - col / scope
Planet (U)
D: Piero Pierotti
A High Wind in Jamaica
UK - 1965 - 103m - col / scope
20th Century Fox (A)
D: Alexander Mackendrick
The Hill
UK - 1965 - 123m - bw
MGM (X)
D: Sidney Lumet
Hysteria
UK - 1965 - 85m - bw
MGM (X)
D: Freddie Francis
I'll Take Sweden
USA - 1964 - 93m - col
United Artists (X) (cut)
D: Frederick De Cordova
Invitation to a Gunfighter
USA - 1964 - 93m - col
United Artists (U)
D: Richard Wilson
The Luck of Ginger Coffey
Canada/USA - 1964 - 99m - bw
British Lion (A)
D: Irvin Kershner
Major Dundee
USA - 1964 - 134m - col / scope
Columbia (A)
D: Sam Peckinpah
Mata Hari: Agent H21
France/Italy - 1964 - 99m - bw
Gala (A)
D: Jean-Louis Richard
Mister Moses
UK - 1964 - 116m - col / scope
United Artists (U)
D: Ronald Neame
The Night Walker
USA - 1964 - 86m - bw
Rank (X)
D: William Castle
Operation Crossbow
(USA: The Great Spy Mission)
UK - 1965 - 116m - col / scope
MGM (A)
D: Michael Anderson
35mm and 70mm release prints.
6-channel stereo
The Pleasure Girls
UK - 1965 - 88m - bw
Compton-Cameo (X) (cut)
D: Gerry O'Hara
Repulsion
UK - 1965 - 104m - bw
Compton-Cameo (X)
D: Roman Polanski
Runaway Railway
UK - 1965 - 55m - bw
Children's Film Foundation (U)
D: Jan Darnley-Smith
Secret Agent F.X. 18
Coplan: Agent secret FX 18
(USA: FX 18: Secret Agent)
France/Italy/Spain - 1964 - 97m - col / scope
Miracle (A) (cut)
D: Maurice Cloche
Followed by: Coplan: Agent - 005 (1964, Sep/1965), The Exterminators (1965, Jul/1966), Coplan ouvre le feu à Mexico (1967), The Devil's Garden (1967, Nov/1971).
The Secret of Blood Island
(aka: P.O.W.)
UK - 1964 - 84m - col
Rank (X)
D: Quentin Lawrence
Series: The Camp on Blood Island (1958, Jun/1958).
Sexy Party
Delitto allo specchio
(USA: Death on the Fourposter)
Italy/France - 1963 - 90m - bw
Miracle (X) (cut)
D: Ambrogio Molteni, Jean Josipovici
That Funny Feeling
USA - 1965 - 93m - col
Rank (A)
D: Richard Thorpe
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew From London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
UK - 1965 - 132m - col / Todd-AO
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Ken Annakin
6-channel stereo
Voice of the Hurricane
USA/S.Africa - 1963 - 80m - col
MRA (U)
D: George Fraser
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The Americanization of Emily
USA - 1964 - 115m - bw
MGM (X)
D: Arthur Hiller
Apache's Last Stand
Old Shatterhand
(USA: Shatterhand)
W.Germany/Yugoslavia/France/Italy - 1964 - 122m - col / Superpanorama 70
Golden Era (U)
D: Hugo Fregonese
Series: The Treasure of Silver Lake (1962, Apr/1966).
6-channel stereo
Baby the Rain Must Fall
USA - 1964 - 93m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Robert Mulligan
The Carmelites
Le dialogue des Carmélites
(aka: Dialogue With the Carmelites)
France/Italy - 1959 - 113m - bw / scope
Hillcrest (A)
D: Philippe Agostini, Raymond Leopold Bruckberger
The Case of the 44's
UK/Denmark - 1964 - 75m - bw
Compton-Cameo (A)
D: Thomas McGowan
The Evil Force
4D Man
USA - 1959 - 82m - col
Monarch (X) (cut)
D: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
The Golden Head
USA/Hungary - 1964 - 115m - col / Super Technirama 70
Cinerama (U)
D: Richard Thorpe, James Hill
Some European prints screened in 70mm Cinerama.
6-channel stereo
The Hanged Man
USA (TV) - 1964 - 87m - bw
Rank (A)
D: Don Siegel
Hercules Attacks
Ercole contro Molock
(USA: The Conquest of Mycenae [Hercules Against Moloch])
(aka: Hercules Challenge)
Italy/France - 1963 - 102m - col / scope
Compton-Cameo (A) (cut)
D: Giorgio Ferroni
Series: Hercules (1957, Jun/1959).
The Holy Terror
Bébert et l'omnibus
(aka: Bebert and the Train)
France - 1963 - 95m - bw
Connoisseur (U)
D: Yves Robert
In Harm's Way
USA - 1965 - 167m - bw / scope
Paramount (A)
D: Otto Preminger
6-channel stereo
Island of the Blue Dolphins
USA - 1964 - 93m - col
Rank (U)
D: James B. Clark
A King's Story
UK - 1965 - 102m - col
Columbia (U)
D: Harry Booth
The Knack... and How to Get It
UK - 1965 - 84m - bw
United Artists (X)
D: Richard Lester
The Little Ones
UK - 1965 - 66m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Jim O'Connolly
Magnificent Three
Tres hombres buenos
(aka: Implacable Three)
Spain/Italy - 1963 - 69m - col / scope
Compton-Cameo (U)
D: Joaquín Luis Romero Merchant
My Blood Runs Cold
USA - 1965 - 103m - bw / scope
Warner-Pathé (A)
D: William Conrad
No Survivors, Please
Der Chef wünscht keine Zeugen
W.Germany - 1963 - 93m - bw
E.J. Fancey (A) (cut)
D: Hans Albin, Peter Berneis
Nude in Charcoal
(aka: Secrets of Venus)
(aka: Sinners a la Carte)
USA - 1961 - 70m - bw
Compton-Cameo (X) (cut)
D: Philip A. Melillo (and Joseph W. Sarno)
The Party's Over
UK - 1963 - 94m - bw
Monarch (X) (cut)
D: Guy Hamilton
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed with cuts. The uncut version was finally 'approved' for video in 2010.
Ride and Kill
Cavalca e uccidi
Italy/Spain - 1963 - 70m - col / scope
Compton-Cameo (U)
D: José Luis Borau [as: J.L. Boraw]
Runaway Killer
Runaway
New Zealand - 1964 - 102m - bw
Compton-Cameo (X)
D: John O'Shea
Strip-Tease
(USA: Sweet Skin)
France/Italy - 1962 - 95m - bw
Hillcrest (X) (cut)
D: Jacques Poitrenaud
Suno no onna
[see: Woman of the Dunes]
Sylvia
USA - 1964 - 115m - bw
Paramount (X) (cut)
D: Gordon Douglas
That Man From Rio
L'homme de Rio
France/Italy - 1964 - 120m - col
United Artists (U)
D: Philippe de Broca
The Three Avengers
Gli invincibili tre
Italy/Tunisia - 1964 - 97m - col / scope
Golden Era (U)
D: Gianfranco Parolini
Series: Ursus (1961, Oct/1971).
To Trap a Spy
USA (TV) - 1964 - 92m - col
MGM (A)
D: Don Medford
Followed by: The Spy With My Face (1964, Sep/1965), One Spy Too Many (1965, Mar/1966), One of Our Spies is Missing (1966, Aug/1966), The Spy in the Green Hat (1966, Mar/1967), The Karate Killers (1967, Sep/1967), The Helicopter Spies (1967, Mar/1968), How to Steal the World (1968, Aug/1968).
The Truth About Spring
(aka: The Pirates of Spring Cove)
UK - 1964 - 102m - col
Rank (U)
D: Richard Thorpe
Two Left Feet
UK - 1963 - 93m - bw
British Lion (X) (cut)
D: Roy Ward Baker
War of the Zombies
Roma contro Roma
(aka: Night Star: Goddess of Electra)
(aka: Rome Against Rome)
Italy - 1963 - 105m - col / scope
Panton (A)
D: Giuseppe Vari
Wild Living
Les saintes nitouches
(USA: Young Girls of Good Families)
France/Italy - 1963 - 95m - bw / scope
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Pierre Montazel
Woman of the Dunes
砂の女
Japan - 1964 - 127m - bw
Contemporary (X)
D: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Young and Eager
Claudelle Inglish
USA - 1961 - 99m - bw
Warner-Pathé (X)
D: Gordon Douglas
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Always When Night Falls
Immer wenn es Nacht wird
(USA: The Love Feast)
W.Germany - 1961 - 96m - bw
New Realm (X) (cut)
D: Hans D. Bove
Be My Guest
UK - 1965 - 82m - bw
Rank (U) (cut)
D: Lance Comfort
Series: Live It Up! (1963, Jan/1964).
Blood River
Und der Amazonas schweigt
W.Germany/Brazil - 1963 - 86m - col / scope (2.00:1)
Miracle (U)
D: Franz Eichhorn
Cosmonauts on Venus
Планета бурь
(aka: Planet of Storms)
USSR - 1962 - 78m - bw
New Realm (U)
D: Pavel Klushantsev
Later re-edited and combined with newly-shot footage to create two separate US movies: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965) and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968).
Dear Heart
USA - 1964 - 114m - bw
Warner-Pathé (A)
D: Delbert Mann
Fail-Safe
USA - 1963 - 112m - bw
Columbia (A)
D: Sidney Lumet
Fight or Die
I due gladiatori
(USA: Two Gladiators)
Italy - 1964 - 88m - col / scope
Eagle (U)
D: Mario Caiano
The Fledglings
UK - 1964 - 72m - bw
Contemporary (X)
D: Norman Thaddeus Vane
Frustration
Die Lady
(USA: Games of Desire)
W.Germany/France - 1964 - 91m - bw
E.J. Fancey (X)
D: Hans Albin, Peter Berneis
The Greatest Story Ever Told
USA - 1965 - 225m - col / Ultra Panavision 70
United Artists (U)
D: George Stevens
Some prints screened in 70mm Cinerama.
6-channel stereo
Hara-Kiri
切腹
(aka: Seppuku)
Japan - 1962 - 135m - bw / scope
Gala (X)
D: Masaki Kobayashi
Initially rejected by the BBFC, then passed uncut.
Hercules Against the Moon Men
Maciste e la regina di Samar
Italy/France - 1964 - 88m - col / scope
Miracle (U)
D: Giacomo Gentilomo
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
USA - 1964 - 134m - bw
20th Century Fox (X) (cut)
D: Robert Aldrich
The Intelligence Men
(USA: Spylarks)
UK - 1965 - 104m - col
Rank (U)
D: Robert Asher
The Ipcress File
UK - 1965 - 109m - col / scope
Rank (A)
D: Sidney J. Furie
Followed by: Funeral in Berlin (1966, Apr/1967), Billion Dollar Brain (1967, Jan/1968), Bullet to Beijing (1995), Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1995).
I've Gotta Horse
UK - 1965 - 92m - col / scope
Warner-Pathé / Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Kenneth Hume
Ta kokkina fanaria
[see: Red Lanterns]
The Legend of Young Dick Turpin
USA - 1965 - 83m - col
Walt Disney (U)
D: James Neilson
Two episodes of the TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1961-69), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.
The Love Goddesses
USA - 1965 - 87m - bw and col
Paramount (X)
D: Saul J. Turell
The Lovemakers
La viaccia
Italy/France - 1961 - 106m - bw
20th Century Fox (X) (cut)
D: Mauro Bolognini
Maciste contro gli uomini della luna
[see: Hercules Against the Moon Men]
The Main Chance
UK - 1964 - 61m - bw
Warner-Pathé / Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: John Knight
A Married Woman
Une femme mariée: Suite de fragments d'un film tourné en 1964
France - 1964 - 98m - bw
Gala (X)
D: Jean-Luc Godard
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Masquerade
UK - 1964 - 102m - col
United Artists (U)
D: Basil Dearden
Now About These Women
För att inte tale om alla dessa kvinnor
(USA: All These Women)
Sweden - 1964 - 80m - col
Gala (X)
D: Ingmar Bergman
Planeta burg
[see: Cosmonauts on Venus]
Primitive London
UK - 1965 - 76m - col
Compton-Cameo (X) (cut)
D: Arnold Louis Miller
Red Desert
Il deserto rosso
Italy/France - 1964 - 116m - col
Academy / Connoisseur (X)
D: Michelangelo Antonioni
The Red Lanterns
Τα κόκκινα φανάρια
Greece - 1963 - 119m - bw
Gala (X) (cut)
D: Vassili Georgiades
Sandokan the Great
Sandokan: Le tigre de Mompracem
Italy/France/Spain - 1963 - 114m - col / scope
MGM (U)
D: Umberto Lenzi
Followed by: I pirati della malesia (1964).
The Satan Bug
USA - 1965 - 113m - col / scope
United Artists (U)
D: John Sturges
She
UK - 1965 - 105m - col / scope
Warner-Pathé (U)
D: Robert Day
Followed by: The Vengeance of She (1967, May/1968).
The Sound of Music
USA - 1965 - 172m - col / Todd-AO
20th Century Fox (U)
D: Robert Wise
6-channel stereo
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| Tokyo Story |
Strange Bedfellows
USA - 1965 - 99m - col
Rank (A)
D: Melvin Frank
Taggart
USA - 1965 - 85m - col
Rank (A)
D: R.G. Springsteen
Teenage Command Performance
The T.A.M.I. Show
(aka: Gather No Moss)
USA - 1964 - 110m - bw
Rank (U)
D: Steve Binder
Three Hats for Lisa
UK - 1965 - 99m - col
Warner-Pathé / Anglo-Amalgamated (U)
D: Sidney Hayers
Tiger of Terror
Sandokan alla riscossa
(aka: The Conqueror and the Empress)
(aka: Sandokan Fights Back)
Italy - 1963 - 89m - col / scope
Compton-Cameo (U) (cut)
D: Luigi Capuano
Followed by: The Return of Sandokan (1964, Apr/1966).
Tokyo Story
東京物語
(aka: Tōkyō Monogatari)
Japan - 1953 - 135m - bw
Contemporary (U)
D: Yasujirō Ozu
Also reviewed: Feb 1994.
