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Money from Home (Hal Wallis; Paramount), in which Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis try to fix a horse race, is pretty funny for a minute or so. The horse they are betting on gets drunk and cannot make the post until the boys rush forward with the black coffee and bromo. Otherwise, it is the usual ill-swizzled Dean & Jerry cocktail, with most of the jokes settling quickly to the bottom. Dean: "Ain't he quaint?'' Jerry (haughtily): "You mean, isn't he quisn't."

Riders to the Stars (Ivan Tors; United Artists) is an oater of the ionosphere. The hero (William Lundigan) is a rocket jockey, the first man ever to ride a guided missile through the wide open spaces beyond the earth's atmosphere. The heroine (Martha Hyer) is a "space-medicine girl" who "dreams of flying almost every night." The rocket man is told by his double-dome dad (Herbert Marshall), a rocket scientist, to go and catch a meteorite. He does this, 80 miles above the earth, with the help of the most startling invention since the Sky Hook--the "Meteor Scoop." Details are not disclosed (presumably they are not yet known to the Russians), but the principle is evident: the rocket has a lower lip that drops down at the strategic moment, and the meteorite just pops in like an interstellar sourball.

Personal Affair (Rank; United Artists) is a British attempt to say "Boo!" without losing dignity. A student (Glynis Johns) at an English school for young ladies has a crush on one of her teachers (Leo Genn). The teacher's wife (Gene Tierney) senses the truth, imagines a lot more, and warns the girl off. That night the girl disappears without a trace. Is she dead? If so, by her own hand or another's? Suspicion falls on the teacher, who admits that he was the last to see her. His marriage begins to come apart, the girl's parents are torn by anxiety and self-accusation, her aunt rocks clean off her rocker, the whole town is talking malicious gossip. All at once the girl reappears, unharmed. Q.E.D.: small towns will be small towns.

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