East of Eden. Director Elia Kazan does his best with one of John Steinbeck’s worst novels, and a new star, James Dean, is born of his pains; with Julie Harris (TiME, March 21).
The Wages of Fear. Fear, oil, greed, Central America and nitroglycerin, stirred together in an angry philosophical shocker by French Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (TIME, Feb. 21).
Hunters of the Deep. The camera grazes on beauty in the ocean pastures (TIME, Feb. 14).
Game of Love. First oats, as two French adolescents sow them; based on Colette’s novel, Le Ble en Herbe (TIME, Jan. 23).
Romeo and Juliet. Never has Shakespeare’s love poem been so splendidly set —among the Renaissance remains of Venice, Verona, Siena (TIME, Dec. 20).
The Country Girl. A slickly made story (by Clifford Odets) about a Broadway has-been (Bing Crosby), his bitter wife (Grace Keliy), and a cynical director (William Holden) who tries to pull them apart (TiME, Dec. 13).
The Heart of the Matter. Graham Greene’s novel, a passionate chorale on the themes of sin and salvation, is rearranged into something more like Mad Dogs and Eng.ishmen; Trevor Howard and Maria Schell are superb as the lovers (TIME, Dec. 13).
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