CURRENT & CHOICE

The Tawny Pipit. Very English but very agreeable fun about a pair of rare birds that set an ornithophilous English village on its ear (TIME, Oct. 6).

The Dark Passage. Humphrey Bogart, a fugitive from injustice, escapes everything but Lauren Bacall (TIME, Sept. 22).

Kiss of Death. A hard, cold yarn about a burglar who turns stool pigeon, with Victor Mature, Richard Widmark and vivid real-life settings (TIME, Sept. 15).

Shoeshine. A beautiful and tragic film about two Roman street boys (TIME, Sept. 8).

Life with Father. The stage hit sumptuously done up into solid, rather stoutish Technicolor entertainment with William Powell as Father and Irene Dunne as Mother (TIME, Aug. 25).

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Variations on a theme by James Thurber, featuring Danny Kaye and some elegantly kidded daydreams (TIME, Aug. 18).

Monsieur Verdoux. Charles Chaplin's sardonic comedy about a man who murders for profit (TIME, May 5).

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