Cinema: Current & Choice, Jun. 5, 1950

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...

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