CURRENT & CHOICE

Boomerang! Dana Andrews and a good cast act out a real-life murder story against the real background of a real town (TIME, March 10).

Smash-Up. Susan Hayward, as a neglected wife, drinks and acts the picture under the table (TIME, March 10).

Odd Man Out. James Mason and the city of Belfast co-star in Carol Reed's brilliant, uneven allegorical melodrama (TIME; March 3).

The Yearling. Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman in a rich version of the Rawlings novel about poor folks (TIME, Jan. 13).

It's a Wonderful Life. James Stewart and Frank Capra bring off a flamboyant, sentimental fable (TIME, Dec. 23).

Open City. This violent, beautiful movie about Rome's anti-Nazi underground has now run a solid year in Manhattan, is still going strong. On a mere 70 prints, it has grossed over $3 million in the U.S.--a colossal take for a foreign-language film. Soon its distributors hope to double the number of prints in circulation (TIME, March 4, 1946).

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