Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 24, 1953

From Here to Eternity. James Jones's wild (and sometimes woolly) novel about life in the peacetime Army, compressed into a hard, tensely acted movie; with Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra (TIME, Aug. 10).

The Master of Ballantrae. Errol Flynn fights his way from Scotland to the New World and back in a rousing version of Robert Louis Stevenson's 18th century thriller (TIME, Aug. 3).

Return to Paradise. A totalitarian South Sea island gets an imaginative helping of love and democracy from Gary Cooper (TIME. July 20).

The Sea Around Us. The Technicolor camera prowls the ocean floor: some beautiful scenes, but lacking the majestic sweep of Rachel Carson's 1951 bestseller. (TIME, July 20).

The Moon is Blue. Recently banned in Maryland, but a nice little comedy all the same (TIME, July 6).

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. Why a small boy hates piano teachers, a wacky tale inventively told in Technicolor (TiME, June 22).

Julius Caesar. Hollywood comes to grips with Shakespeare and, for once, very nearly holds its own (TIME, June 1).

Strange Deception. A moving story of an Italian postwar vendetta, written and filmed by Novelist Curzio (The Skin) Malaparte (TIME. June 1).

Shane. A horse opera brought to Tech-nicolored perfection; with Alan Ladd, Van Heflin, Jean Arthur (TIME, April 13).