Count Your Blessings. A pleasant little comedy about a modern Penelope (Deborah Kerr) and her absentee husband, including some lectures about Gallic marriage delivered by the indestructible Maurice Chevalier.
Room at the Top. A curiously old-fashioned plot about social climbing, recalling Stendhal's The Red and the Black, in a modern welfare-state setting. Based on a book by John Braine, one of Britain's angry young novelists, the picture sometimes verges on caricature and cliche, but it remains one of the best British movies in years.
Alias Jesse James. Bob Hope as the world's worst insurance agent...
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