Cinema: Current & Choice, May 15, 1950

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The Big Lift. Romance, propaganda and the Berlin airlift, crowded into an imperfect but absorbing film; with Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas (TIME, May 8).

Riding High. Frank Capra's shrewdly effective comedy about horse racing, with Bing Crosby and a full stable of able character actors (TIME, May 1).

Annie Get Your Gun. Betty Hutton at large in a sensibly faithful version of Irving Berlin's musicomedy hit (TIME, April 24).

City Lights. Charlie Chaplin's 19-year-old but ageless "comedy romance in pantomime" (TIME, April 17).

When Willie Comes Marching Home. A sprightly farce that ribs Army brass and a hero-loving public; with Dan Dailey (TIME, March 6).

Cinderella. Walt Disney rounds out the cast of the fairy-tale classic with some beguiling birds and beasts (TIME, Feb. 20).

The Third Man. Melodramatic skulduggery in postwar Vienna, written by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed; with Joseph Gotten, Orson Welles and Valli (TIME, Feb. 6).

Tight Little Island. The salvage of a shipwrecked whisky cargo sends the British on a comic spree (TIME, Jan. 23).

The Bicycle Thief. The Italian prize-winning film about a chase through Rome for a stolen bicycle (TIME, Dec. 12).