CURRENT & CHOICE

From Here to Eternity. James Jones' wild (and sometimes woolly) novel about life in the peacetime Army, compressed into a hard, tensely acted movie (TIME, Aug. 10).

The Master of Ballantrae. Wielding his claymore, Errol Flynn hacks his way from Scotland to the New World in a rousing version of Robert Louis Stevenson's 18th century thriller (TIME, Aug. 3).

Return to Paradise. A totalitarian South Sea island gets an imaginative helping of love and democracy from Gary Cooper (TIME, July 20).

The Sea Around Us. The Technicolor camera prowls the ocean floor: some beautiful scenes, but lacking the majestic sweep of Rachel Carson's 1951 bestseller (TIME, July 20).

The Moon Is Blue. Recently banned in Maryland, but a nice little comedy all the same (TIME, July 6).

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. Why a small boy hates piano teachers, inventively told in Technicolor (TIME, June 22).

Julius Caesar. Hollywood comes to grips with Shakespeare and, for once, very nearly holds its own (TIME, June 1).

Strange Deception. An often moving story of an Italian postwar vendetta, written and filmed by Novelist Curzio (The Skin) Malaparte (TIME, June 1).

Fanfan the Tulip. A farcical take-off on costume dramas, with Gerard Philipe as the swashbuckling hero ; Gina Lollobrigida is the eye-filling heroine (TIME, May 11).

Shane. A horse opera brought to Technicolor perfection; with Alan Ladd, Van Heflin, Jean Arthur (TIME, April 13).

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