Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 30, 1950

All About Eve. An expert, high-comedy examination of Anne Baxter's climb, over the bodies of Bette Davis, George Sanders and others, from obscurity to Broadway stardom (TIME, Oct. 16).

State Secret. A British-made thriller about an American (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) running for his life in a convincingly pictured police state (TIME, Oct. 9).

The Happiest Days of Your Life. Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford in a farcical spoof of English public schools (TIME, Oct. 9).

Mister 880. Edmund Gwenn as a lovable old counterfeiter who baffles the Secret Service for ten years; with Burt Lancaster...

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