Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 5, 1949

Madame Bovary. Jennifer Jones travels the path from boredom to eroticism to ruin, in a performance that Flaubert could admire (TIME, Aug. 15).

Lost Boundaries. An earnest view of a painful Negro dilemma seen from the inside out (TIME, July 4).

Sorrowful Jones. Bob Hope in a fast-paced spoof of a Damon Runyon yarn (TIME, June 27).

The Window. Razor-edged suspense and terror as felt through the pulse of a tenement kid, with Bobby Driscoll (TIME, May 23).

Home of the Brave. A gripping account of anti-Negro prejudice in the wartime Pacific (TIME, May 9).

The Berkleys of Broadway. A whirling, tuneful revival of cinema's...

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