Monday, May. 30, 1955

CURRENT & CHOICE

Hiroshima. A propaganda-heavy but harrowing Japanese-made film about the death of a living city (TiME, May 23).

Violent Saturday. Three thugs rob a bank in a picture as simple and as nerve-racking as a bomb. With Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Ernest Borgnine (TIME, May 16).

Heartbreak Ridge. The infantryman's ordeal in Korea, as experienced by a green French lieutenant and sharply recorded by Director Jacques Dupont (TIME, May 9).

Marty. The love story of "a very good butcher": home truth and homely humor in the life of an ordinary man--well perceived by Playwright Paddy Chayefsky, well expressed by Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair (TIME, April 18).

East of Eden. Director Elia Kazan does his best with one of John Steinbeck's worst novels, and a new star, James Dean, is born of his pains; with Julie Harris (TiME, March 21).

The Wages of Fear. Fear, oil, greed, Central America and nitroglycerin, stirred together in an angry philosophical shocker by French Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (TIME, Feb. 21).

Romeo and Juliet. Never has Shakespeare's love poem been so splendidly set--among the Renaissance remains of Venice, Verona, Siena (TIME, Dec. 20).

The Country Girl. A slickly made story about a Broadway has-been (Bing Crosby), his bitter wife (Oscarwinning Actress Grace Kelly), and a cynical director (William Holden) (TIME, Dec. 13).

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