My Darling Clementine. Director John Ford’s handsome horse opera for the carriage trade, with Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell and Victor Mature (TIME, Nov. 11).
Margie. Jeanne Grain, as a pretty high-school romantic, involved in some pleasant 1928 nostalgia (TIME, Oct. 28).
The Dark Mirror. Suave whodunit with Olivia de Havilland and Lew Ayres (TIME, Oct. 21).
Blue Skies. A silly plot doesn’t matter if it has Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and Irving Berlin songs (TIME, Oct. 14).
The Jolson Story. People who never heard—or never cared for—the Jazz Singer himself love this big, noisy, colorful entertainment (TIME, Oct. 7).
The Killers. “Explaining” Hemingway’s short story with a complex, hard-boiled plot (TIME, Sept. 9).
Brief Encounter. Skillful British-made tearjerker, from a Noel Coward playlet (TIME, Sept. 9).
Caesar and Cleopatra. Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains keep Shaw’s wit from being buried under several million dollars worth of Technicolored Egypt (TIME, Aug. 19).
Notorious. Director Alfred Hitchcock sends Ingrid Bergman and Gary Grant on a nerve-racking chase after postwar Nazis (TIME, Aug. 19).
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