The River. Director Jean Renoir’s sensitive version of Rumer Godden’s autobiographical novel about an English girl growing into adolescence beside a holy river in India (TIME, Sept. 24).
A Streetcar Named Desire. An unvarnished adaptation of the prizewinning Broadway hit; with Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter (TIME, Sept. 17).
People Will Talk. Scripter-Director Joseph L. (All About Eve) Mankiewicz needles the medical profession in his latest comedy of U.S. manners & morals; with Gary Grant and Jeanne Grain (TIME, Sept. 17).
A Place in the Sun. Producer-Director George Stevens’ masterly version of Dreiser’s An American Tragedy; with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters (TIME, Sept. 10).
Pickup. In his debut as a Hollywood moviemaker, Czech-born Hugo Haas directs and stars in a tense, unpretentious drama about a middle-aged railroad watchman and the floozy he marries (TIME, Aug. 27).
The Whistle at Eaton Falls. Producer Louis de Rochemont uses true incidents to tell a provocative story of labor-management relations, and takes a sympathetic look at the thorny problems of both sides (TIME, Aug. 13).
Oliver Twist. Director David (Great Expectations) Lean’s brilliant adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel; with Alec Guinness, John Howard Davies, Robert Newton (TIME, May 15).
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