Cinema: Current & Choice, Jun. 26, 1950

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,...

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