Monday, May. 16, 1949

CURRENT & CHOICE

The Wizard of Oz. A happily inspired reissue of the ten-year-old classic; with Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr (TIME, May 9).

We Were Strangers. Director John Huston's fling at a Cuban revolution; a better-than-average melodrama, but grade B Huston, with John Garfield and Jennifer Jones (TIME, May 2).

Mr. Belvedere Goes to College. Clifton Webb resumes his supercilious career as an all-round genius (TIME, May 2).

The Berkleys of Broadway. Expert hoofing and whirling by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (TIME, April 25).

The Set-Up. Robert Ryan in a hard-slugging account of the fall of an overaged pug (TIME, April 18).

Champion. The life & death story of a prizefighting heel who becomes a public hero; brilliantly played by Kirk Douglas (TIME, April 11).

Devil in the Flesh. A moving, French-made look at the pleasures and perils of adolescent love; with Gerard Philipe and Micheline Presle (TIME, March 21).

Little Women. A colorful remake of Louisa May Alcott's sentimental classic (TIME, March 14).

Down to the Sea in Ships. Richard Widmark and Lionel Barrymore in a reefed-in version of the old whaling yarn (TIME, March 7).

Quartet. Four lively vignettes of Britons at home & abroad; from Somerset Maugham short stories (TIME, Feb. 21).

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