Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 3, 1949

White Heat. James Cagney's spectacular comeback in a hurtling drama about a mother-dependent gangster (TIME, Sept. 19).

Jolson Sings Again. Zestful sequel to the film biography of mammy's favorite son; with Larry Parks and Jolson's voice (TIME, Sept. 5).

Madame Bovary. Jennifer Jones in a faithful portrayal of Flaubert's unfaithful French provincial lady (TIME, Aug. 15).

Lost Boundaries. A true story, movingly enacted, of Negroes who "pass" as whites (TIME, July 4).

Sorrowful Jones. The boozy sentiment of Damon Runyon's Broadway, heavily spiked with Bob Hope gags (TIME, June 27).

The Window. A boy's-eye view of murder in a Manhattan tenement, with Bobby Driscoll (TIME, May...

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