CURRENT & CHOICE

Blue Skies. A foolish plot, but also Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Technicolor and 28 Irving Berlin songs (TIME, Oct. 14).

The Jolson Story. A big, noisy, colorful entertainment, with sound track by the Jazz Singer himself (TIME, Oct. 7).

Sister Kenny. Well-made pro-Kenny biography that blends fact, fiction and propaganda (TIME, Sept. 30).

The Killers. Hemingway's short story, hopped up with a complex plot of thievery, violence and doublecross (TIME, Sept. 9).

Brief Encounter. Excellent British-made tearjerker, expanded with realism and skill from a Noel Coward playlet (TIME, Sept. 9).

The Big Sleep. Humphrey Bogart & wife (Lauren Bacall), amusingly tough in Raymond Chandler's kick-in-the-teeth thriller (TIME, Aug. 26).

Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's wit, elegantly tossed around by Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains, amid several million dollars' worth of Technicolored Egypt (TIME, Aug. 19).

Notorious. Ingrid Bergman and Gary Grant, nerves on edge, stalk dangerous Nazis with Director Alfred Hitchcock (TIME, Aug. 19).

Canyon Passage. Ripsnorting Technicolor escape into the Old West, with Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward and Hoagy Carmichael ballads (TIME, Aug. 5).

Anna and the King of Siam. Entertaining period piece with Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison (TIME, June 24).

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