The Asphalt Jungle. Director John Huston explores a band of criminals as human beings while documenting a $1,000,000 jewel burglary (TIME, June 19).
Father of the Bride. Spencer Tracy in a delightfully funny adaptation of Edward Streeter’s bestseller (TIME, May 29).
The Big Lift. Romance, heavy-handed propaganda and the Berlin airlift, crowded into an overambitious but absorbing film; with Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas (TIME, May 8).
Annie Get Your Gun. Betty Hutton at large in a sensibly faithful version of Irving Berlin’s musicomedy hit (TIME, April 24).
Cinderella. Walt Disney rounds out the cast of the fairy-tale classic with some beguiling birds & beasts (TIME, Feb. 20).
The Third Man. Melodramatic skulduggery in postwar Vienna, written by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed; with Joseph Gotten, Orson Welles and Valli (TIME, Feb. 6).
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