CURRENT & CHOICE

Gigi. Colette's slender novelette, larded up with production values and brought forth as a big fat musical; but the show is saved by Cecil Beaton's fruitily fin de siecle sets and costumes--a cinemuseum of exquisite eyesores (TIME, May 19).

Rouge et Noir. The edge of Stendhal's satire dulled by sentiment, but all the same a good movie from a great novel; with Gerard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi (TIME, May 5).

The Young Lions. Irwin Shaw's bestseller about World War II, clarified by an intelligent script and two gifted actors, Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift (TIME, April 14).

Stage Struck. Local girl making good on Broadway--the hard way; with Susan Strasberg, Henry Fonda (TIME, April 7).

The High Cost of Loving. The hilarious private life of a rising young white-collar couple, described by Scriptwriter Rip Van Ronkel and Actor-Director Jose Ferrer (TIME, March 24).

The Enemy Below. A DE (Robert Mitchum) and a U-boat (Curt Juergens) tangling in a running fracas that is sharply directed by Dick Powell (TIME, Jan. 13).

The Bridge on the River Kwai. Winner of seven Academy Awards as 1957's best picture by the year's best director (David Lean) with the year's best actor (Alec Guinness)--a magnificent war story (TIME, Dec. 23).

Ordet. A luminously beautiful religious allegory (TIME, Dec. 16).

Paths of Glory. A passionate polemic against war and the vested disinterest of those who monger it; with Kirk Douglas (TIME, Dec. 9).

Pal Joey. The Broadway musical had a faster book than the film version but then it didn't have Frank Sinatra (TIME, Oct. 28).

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