Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 30, 1954

On the Waterfront. Elia Kazan's big-shouldered melodrama of dockside corruption; with Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb (TIME, Aug. 9).

Rear Window. Hot and cold flashes of kissing and killing, as Alfred Hitchcock lets Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly and the customer get the eavesdrop on a murderer (TIME, Aug. 2).

The Earrings of Madame De . . . A bubbling little masterpiece of ormolu romance and French wit; with Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica (TIME, July 26).

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Plutarch's story of The Rape of the Sabine Women, updated to make the best cine-musical since An...

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