Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 24, 1951

A Streetcar Named Desire. A faithful adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ Broadway hit; with Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter (TIME, Sept. 17).

People Will Talk. Scripter-Director Joseph L. (All About Eve) Mankiewicz needles the medical profession and breaks some Hollywood rules in his latest comedy; with Cary Grant and Jeanne Grain (TIME, Sept. 17).

A Place in the Sun. Producer-Director George Stevens’ masterly version of Dreiser’s An American Tragedy; with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters (TIME, Sept. 10).

Captain Horatio Hornblower.Gregory Peck and Virginia Mayo in a rousing swashbuckler based on the C. S. Forester novel (TIME, Sept. 10).

Pickup. Making his debut as a Hollywood moviemaker, Czech-born Hugo Haas directs and stars in a tense, unpretentious drama about a middle-aged railroad watchman and the floozy he marries (TIME, Aug. 27).

The Whistle at Eaton Falls. Producer Louis de Rochemont uses true incidents to tell a provocative story of labor-management relations, and takes a sympathetic look at the thorny problems of both sides (TIME, Aug. 13).

Strangers on a Train. Alfred Hitchcock’s implausible but dazzlingly tricky thriller about a psychopath (Robert Walker) with a new scheme for foolproof murder (TIME, July 16).

Oliver Twist. Director David (Great Expectations) Lean’s brilliant adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel; with Alec Guinness, John Howard Davies, Robert Newton (TIME, May 15).