Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Nov. 5, 1956

Wee Geordie. The stiffest comic punch the British have delivered since High and Dry—an intoxicating mixture of Scotch and wry; with Bill Travers, Alastair Sim (TIME, Oct. 29).

Giant. In a big (3 hr. 18 min.), tough picture based on Edna Ferber's bestseller about Texas, Director George Stevens digs the rowels of social satire into the soft underbelly of U.S. materialism; with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean (TIME, Oct. 22).

The Grand Maneuver. René Clair, vintage 1956, brut—a bubbling tale of love and languishment; with Michele Morgan, Gérard Philipe (TIME, Oct. 15).

Yang Kwei Fei. A Japanese interpretation of an old Chinese legend,...

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