CURRENT & CHOICE

Father of the Bride. Spencer Tracy shines in a delightfully funny adaptation of Edward Streeter's bestseller about a fond parent's ordeal (TIME, May 29).

A Ticket to Tomahawk. The first trip of a narrow-gauge ten-wheeler (minus 40 miles of track) in the Colorado Rockies; played for laughs by Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter (TIME, May 15).

The Big Lift. Romance, heavy-handed propaganda and the Berlin airlift, crowded into an overambitious but absorbing film; with Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas (TIME, May 8).

Riding High. Frank Capra's shrewdly effective comedy about horse racing, with Bing Crosby and a full stable of able character actors (TIME, May 1).

Annie Get Your Gun. Betty Hutton at large in a sensibly faithful version of Irving Berlin's musicomedy hit (TIME, April 24).

City Lights. Charlie Chaplin's 19-year-old but ageless "comedy romance in pantomime" (TIME, April 17).

When Willie Comes Marching Home. A sprightly farce that ribs Army brass and a hero-loving public; with Dan Dailey (TIME, March 6).

Cinderella. Walt Disney rounds out the cast of the fairy-tale classic with some beguiling birds and beasts (TIME, Feb. 20).

The Third Man. Melodramatic skulduggery in postwar Vienna, written by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed; with Joseph Gotten, Orson Welles and Valli (TIME, Feb. 6).

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