American

CHOICE FOR 1958

The Enemy Below. One of the best movies ever made about naval warfare--the story of a duel between a U.S. destroyer escort (Robert Mitchum) and a German sub (Curt Juergens) in the South Atlantic (TIME, Jan. 13).

The High Cost of Loving. A gentle little satire on the suburban manners and office morals of a company man, recession phase, charmingly played and directed by Jose Ferrer (TIME, March 24).

The Hot Spell. A lower-middle-class family washes its dirty linen in public --a fine piece of domestic realism, knowingly directed by Daniel Mann, feelingly played by Shirley Booth and Anthony Quinn (TIME, June 23).

The Goddess. Paddy Chayefsky's ferocious satirade against the American Way of Life is crude, unfair, sometimes simply dull, but it has the power of righteous anger and the services of a richly gifted actress, Kim Stanley (TIME, July 7).

The Key. The masterly exposition of a heroic myth, extricated by Scriptwriter Carl Foreman from a second-rate sea novel by Jan de Hartog (TIME, July 14).

The Defiant Ones. The chain that links two escaped convicts, a white man (Tony Curtis) and a black (Sidney Poitier), comes to signify, as Stanley Kramer's melodrama rises to its climax and its moral, the tie that binds all men to one another (TIME, Aug. 25).

Me and the Colonel. Danny Kaye, in his first serious role, proves in some ways funnier than ever, and S. N. Behrman's screenplay is a graceful example of gallows humor (TIME, Sept. 1).

The Big Country. The year's best western; directed by William Wyler, starring Gregory Peck (TIME, Sept. 8).

Damn Yankees. The year's best musical--though certainly not a great one; directed by George Abbott and Stanley Donen, starring Gwen Verdon (TIME, Sept. 29).

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