Choice for 1950

Tight Little Island. A British comedy, almost perfect of its kind, which applies character insight and cinematic ingenuity to the story of a whisky famine on a rugged Hebridean island (TIME, Jan. 23).

The Titan. A Swiss documentary, reworked by U.S. film craftsmen into a brilliant tour de force which uses art treasures, Italian backgrounds, sound effects and narration to recreate the work, life and times of Michelangelo (TIME, Jan. 30).

The Third Man. Director Carol Reed's mood-saturated Graham Greene melodrama of black-market intrigue in a forlorn postwar Vienna (TIME, Feb. 6).

The Hasty Heart. The year's best adaptation from the stage; a moving, tender story, edged with humor, about a dying, misanthropic young Scot (Richard Todd) who finds friendship in a Burma army hospital (TIME, Feb. 13).

Cinderella. The old fairy tale retold by Walt Disney with freshness, fun and a beguiling menagerie of birds & beasts (TIME, Feb. 20).

Kind Hearts and Coronets. Britain's Alec Guinness playing eight roles in a comedy of Edwardian manners and murders that takes the year's honors for irony, urbanity and impudent wit (TIME, July 3).

The Men. A forbidding subject--the mental and physical salvage of war-wounded veterans who are paralyzed below the waist--treated by Producer Stanley Kramer with frankness, good taste and dramatic power; with a compelling, unconventional performance by Marlon Brando (TIME, July 24).

Sunset Boulevard. Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder take a clever, sardonic look at Hollywood, and Gloria Swanson makes her comeback, in the year's most consistently brilliant display of movie craftsmanship (TIME, Aug. 14).

The Breaking Point. Hemingway's To Have and Have Not expertly adapted to bring humanity, conviction and pictorial style to a much-abused genre: the hard-boiled melodrama (TIME, Sept. 25).

All About Eve. Writer-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's overlong but bitingly witty study of a Broadway actress' success sets a new standard for U.S. film comedy aimed at grownups (TIME, Oct. 16).

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