Johnny Belinda. Jane Wyman as a deaf-mute slavey and Lew Ayres as a kindly doctor triumph over some melodramatic buffeting (TIME, Oct. 25).
Red River. Howard Hawks delivers 10,000 cattle to Kansas—and a rattling good movie about the first drive along the Chisholm Trail; with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift (TIME, Oct. 11).
Rachel and the Stranger. Robert Mitchum, Loretta Young and William Holden do some wooing and wrangling on the Ohio frontier of the early 1800s (TIME, Sept. 27).
Sorry, Wrong Number. A thriller about terror on the telephone, with Barbara Stanwyck on the fatal end of the line (TIME, Sept. 20).
Key Largo. A G.I. v. old-style gangsters; Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, et al. in a John Huston adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME, Aug. 2).
Hamlet. Sir Laurence Olivier’s masterful film version of the Shakespeare classic (TIME, June 28).
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