Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 29, 1957

The Strange One. Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man) about a Southern military academy makes a slick, sadistic thriller— a slashing good cinema debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April 22).

Men in War. Director Anthony Mann nd his camera tell a modest story of the Korean war with an intimate intensity .hat makes every theater seat feel like a oxhole; with Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray (TIME. April 8).

Fear Strikes Out. Psychiatry has a red-hot inning in this film biography of Red Sox Outfielder Jim Piersall, and 25-year-old Actor Anthony Perkins scores in the title role (TIME, March 18).

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