CURRENT & CHOICE

The Big Sleep. Humphrey Bogart & wife (Lauren Bacall) play hide-&-seek with sudden death in Raymond Chandler's hardbitten thriller (TIME, Aug. 26).

Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's wit, elegantly tossed around by Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains, amid several million dollars' worth of Egypt (TIME, Aug. 19).

Notorious. Ingrid Bergman and Gary Grant, constantly menaced by Director Alfred Hitchcock, stalk dangerous Nazis in Rio (TIME, Aug. 19).

Canyon Passage. Ripsnorting Technicolor escape into the Old West (TIME Aug. 5).

Easy to Wed. Van Johnson, egged on by Lucille Ball, Esther Williams and Keenan Wynn, sings, dances and takes pratfalls (TIME, July 15).

Smoky. Expert Technicolor treatment of the Will James story, starring Fred MacMurray and a piece of beautiful black horseflesh (TIME, July 8).

The Searching Wind. Robert Young and Sylvia Sidney in Lillian Hellman's angry film sermon against umbrella-carrying diplomats (TIME, July 1).

Anna and the King of Siam. Lively period piece in which Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison prove that boy-gets-girl is not the only kind of movie fun (TIME, June 24).

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