CURRENT & CHOICE

High Treason. Spies v. Scotland Yard in a bang-up British melodrama (TIME, May 19).

The Atomic City. Neat B-budget thriller of grade-A caliber about G-men hunting down H-bomb spies (TIME, May 12).

The Narrow Margin. Cops & robbers on a train that rattles along at an exciting express clip (TIME, May 5).

Outcast of the Islands. Joseph Conrad's hothouse drama of a white man's disintegration in the tropics, strikingly directed by Carol (The Third Man) Reed; with Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson, Robert Morley (TIME, April 28).

The Man in the White Suit. Top-grade British movie yarn spun out of whole cloth, with Alec Guinness in a tailor-made comedy role as the inventor of an indestructible fabric (TIME, April 14).

Anything Can Happen. Folksy, affectionate film version of George and Helen Papashvily's 1944 bestseller about an immigrant from Russian Georgia (Jose Ferrer) who discovers America (TIME, April 14).

The African Queen. Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart in John Huston's Technicolored version of C. S. Forester's adventure yarn (TIME, Feb. 25).