CURRENT & CHOICE

Pickup. Making his debut as a Hollywood moviemaker, Czech-born Hugo Haas directs and stars in a tense, unpretentious thriller about a middle-aged railroad watchman and the floozy he marries (TIME, Aug. 27).

The Whistle at Eaton Falls. Producer Louis de Rochemont uses true incidents to tell a provocative story of labor-management relations, and takes a sympathetic look at the thorny problems of both sides (TIME, Aug. 13).

Strangers on a Train. Alfred Hitchcock's implausible but dazzlingly tricky melodrama about a psychopath (the late Robert Walker) with a new scheme for foolproof murder (TIME, July 16).

The Frogmen. How the Navy's underwater demolition teams cleared invasion beaches in World War II; with Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill (TIME, July 9).

Four in a Jeep. The timely story of a four-power MP patrol in Vienna, split by the plight of a Viennese girl in trouble with the Soviet command; with Viveca Lindfors, Ralph Meeker (TIME, June 18).

Oliver Twist. Director David (Great Expectations) Lean's brilliant adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel; with Alec Guinness, John Howard Davies, Robert Newton (TIME, May 14).

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