Cinema: Choice for 1957

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Full of Life. A sort of delivery-room comedy, maybe a little too sentimental, but Judy Holliday gives vigorous mirth to the maybe (TIME, Feb. 18).

Twelve Angry Men. The necessary right and the possible wrong of trial by jury, skillfully argued by Scriptwriter Reginald Rose and Actor Henry Fonda (TIME. April 29).

Sweet Smell of Success. Scriptwriters Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman go fishing with a fine line of gab in the moral sewer—the pipeline of a well-known gossip columnist—that runs under Broadway (TIME, June 24).

Love in the Afternoon. An especially tasty...

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