Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, may 30, 1955

Hiroshima. A propaganda-heavy but harrowing Japanese-made film about the death of a living city (TiME, May 23).

Violent Saturday. Three thugs rob a bank in a picture as simple and as nerve-racking as a bomb. With Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Ernest Borgnine (TIME, May 16).

Heartbreak Ridge. The infantryman's ordeal in Korea, as experienced by a green French lieutenant and sharply recorded by Director Jacques Dupont (TIME, May 9).

Marty. The love story of "a very good butcher": home truth and homely humor in the life of an ordinary man—well perceived by Playwright Paddy...

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