Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 29, 1957

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The Strange One. Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man) about a Southern military academy makes a slick, sadistic thriller— a slashing good cinema debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April 22).

Men in War. Director Anthony Mann nd his camera tell a modest story of the Korean war with an intimate intensity .hat makes every theater seat feel like a oxhole; with Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray (TIME. April 8).

Fear Strikes Out. Psychiatry has a red-hot inning in this film biography of Red Sox Outfielder Jim Piersall, and 25-year-old Actor Anthony Perkins scores in the title role (TIME, March 18).

The Spirit of St. Louis. New York to Pans with Charles A. Lindbergh: Director Billy Wilder and Actor James Stewart make a good film about a great adventure (TIME, March 4).

Gold of Naples. Italian Director Vittorio De Sica makes high comedy of low life in Naples, and wins some superb performances from Sophia Loren, Silvana Mangano, Toto and Vittorio De Sica (TIME, Feb. 25).

Full of Life. Judy Holliday has a baby and gets married in a wonderful outburst of mirth about birth; with Richard Conte Salvatore Baccalohi (TIME, Feb. 18).