Wednesday, November 30, 2022

October 1957 (The Bridge on the River Kwai)

The 27th Day (USA - 1957 - bw)

Above All Things (Flood Tide) (USA - 1957 - bw) (scope)

Back From the Dead (USA - 1957 - bw) (scope)
Betrayed Women (USA - 1955 - bw)
The Big Show (USA - 1957)
The Birthday Present (UK - 1957 - bw)
Black Market Rustlers (see: Land and the Law)
Blessed Events (Lorsque l’enfant paraît) (Fr - 1956)
The Body Beautiful (see: Miss Body Beautiful)
The Bolshoi Ballet (UK - 1957)
Bop Girl Goes Calypso (USA - 1957 - bw)
Both Ends of the Candle (The Helen Morgan Story) (USA - 1957 - bw) (scope)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (UK - 1957) (scope) [2.55:1] ¹

Calle Mayor /USA: The Lovemaker (Sp/Fr - 1956 - bw)

Dames Don't Care (Les femmes s’en balancent) (Fr - 1954 - bw)
The Deadly Mantis (USA - 1957 - bw)
The Devil’s Hairpin (USA - 1957) (VistaVision)

Explosion (TVM) (USA - 1956 - bw) ²

A Face in the Crowd (USA - 1957 - bw)
Flood Tide (see: Above All Things)
Forty Guns (USA - 1957 - bw) (scope) (4-channel)

The Girl in the Kremlin (USA - 1957 - bw)
Grand’ Rue [see: Calle Mayor]
Gun Glory (USA - 1957) (scope) (4-channel)
 (Perspecta Sound)

The Helen Morgan Story (see: Both Ends of the Candle)
He Who Must Die (Celui qui doit mourir) (Fr/It - 1957 - bw) (scope)
The Heroic Monsieur Boniface (L'héroïque Mr Boniface) (Fr - 1949 - bw)

Jet Pilot (USA - 1957) ³
Johnny Bravo (TVM) (USA - 1956 - bw)
The Joker is Wild (USA - 1957 - bw) (VistaVision)

Land and the Law (Black Market Rustlers) (USA - 1943 - bw)
Last Stagecoach West (USA - 1957 - bw) (scope)
The Last Train West (TVM) (USA - 1956 - bw)
The Lovemaker (see: Calle Mayor)

Men in War (USA - 1957 - bw)
The Miller's Beautiful Wife (see: Miller's Wife, The)
The Miller's Wife (La bella mugnaia) /USA: The Miller’s Beautiful Wife (It - 1955) (scope)
Miss Body Beautiful (The Body Beautiful) (USA - 1953 - bw)
Mister Rock and Roll (USA - 1957 - bw)
Mitsou ou Comment l’esprit vient aux filles... (Fr - 1956)
My Man Godfrey (USA - 1957) (scope)

The One That Got Away (UK - 1957 - bw)

The Pride and the Passion (USA - 1957) (VistaVision)
Professor Tim (Ire - 1957 - bw)

Robbery Under Arms (UK - 1957)
Run of the Arrow (USA - 1956)

The Scamp /USA: Strange Affection (UK - 1957 - bw)
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (USA - 1957 - bw)
Slim Carter (USA - 1957)
Small Hotel (UK - 1957 - bw)
Son of the Hunchback (Il figlio di Lagardère) (It - 1952 - bw)
Spanish Affair (USA/Sp - 1957) (VistaVision)
Strange Affection (see: Scamp, The)
Strangers’ Meeting (UK - 1957 - bw)
The Sun Also Rises (USA - 1957) (scope) (4-channel)
The Surgeon’s Knife (UK - 1957 - bw)

That Night (USA - 1957 - bw)
The Three Faces of Eve (USA - 1957 - bw) (scope) (4-channel)
Three Sundays to Live (UK - 1957 - bw)
Time for Action (Tip on a Dead Jockey) (USA - 1957 - bw) (scope) (Perspecta Sound)
The Tin Star (USA - 1957 - bw) (VistaVision)
Tip on a Dead Jockey (see: Time for Action)
Trooper Hook (USA - 1957 - bw)

West of the River (TVM) (USA - 1956 - bw) ⁷
Woman in a Dressing Gown (UK - 1957 - bw)

The Young Guns (USA - 1956 - bw)

Zorro’s Fighting Legion (serial) (USA - 1939 - 12 chapters - bw)

¹ Reframed at 2.35:1 for 35mm theatrical release; subsequently restored to its correct dimensions on home video. Converted to 70mm for a 1973 UK re-release.

² Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of Warner Brothers Presents (1955-56).

³ Badly cropped from 1.66:1 to scope dimensions for UK release, promoted as ‘RKO-Scope’.

Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of Cheyenne (1955-63).

Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of Cheyenne (1955-63).

Badly cropped from 1.85:1 to scope dimensions for UK release, promoted as ‘RKO-Scope’.

Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of Cheyenne (1955-63).

Primary sources:
Unless otherwise indicated, titles listed in this entry were first registered with the UK Board of Trade in Oct 1957. Theatrical release dates may differ.

Updated 6 Dec 2022.


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