Monday, Jun. 26, 1950
CURRENT & CHOICE
The Asphalt Jungle. Director John Huston explores a band of criminals as human beings while closely documenting a $1,000,000 burglary; with Sterling Hayden and Louis Calhern (TIME, June 19).
Father of the Bride. Spencer Tracy shines in a delightfully funny adaptation of Edward Streeter's bestseller about a 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-ringed 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).
Cinderella. Walt Disney rounds out the cast of the fairy-tale classic with some beguiling birds & 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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