The Roof (Italian). The ablest of Italy's neorealists, Director Vittorio De Sica and Scriptwriter Cesare Zavattini, prescribe a bitter pillthe hard facts of life in a housing shortagebut sugar-coat it with a shining story of young love.
Count Your Blessings. A pleasant little comedy about a modern Penelope (Deborah Kerr) and her absentee husband. With Maurice Chevalier.
Room at the Top. An 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...