Man’s Hope. Not “entertainment,” but a fine, grim film about the Spanish Civil War, made in 1938 by Novelist Andre Malraux (TIME, Feb. 3).
The Yearling. Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman in a rather glossy Technicolored version of the Rawlings novel about poor folks in Florida’s scrub country (TIME, Jan. 13).
Stairway to Heaven. British fantasy, imaginative if overblown, with David Niven, Raymond Massey and Roger Livesey (TIME, Dec. 30).
It’s a Wonderful Life. Home from war, Hollywood Veterans James Stewart and Frank Capra bring off a flamboyant, sentimental fable (TIME, Dec. 23).
The Best Years of Our Lives. A postwar concert on the heartstrings, eloquently performed by Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright and Harold Russell, under William Wyler’s direction (TIME, Nov. 25).
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