Cinema: Current & Choice, Mar. 6, 1950

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Cinderella. Walt Disney's beguiling retelling of the fairy tale (TIME, Feb. 20). .

The Hasty Heart. British Actor Richard Todd in a fine performance as a dying, misanthropic young Scot who finds friendship in an army hospital; with Patricia Neal and Ronald Reagan (TIME, Feb. 13).

The Third Man. Intrigue in postwar Vienna, by Director Carol Reed and Scripter Graham Greene; with Joseph Gotten, Orson Welles and Valli (TIME, Feb. 6).

The Titan. An exciting documentary which recreates the work, life and times of Michelangelo (TIME, Jan. 30).

Twelve O'Clock High. A fresh, convincing drama about a human crisis in a U.S. wartime bomber group; with Gregory Peck (TIME, Jan. 30).

Tight Little Island. A 100-proof British comedy about a whisky famine on a Hebridean island and how the inhabitants relieved it (TIME, Jan. 23).

The Bicycle Thief. Italian Director Vittorio (Shoeshine) De Sica's carefully made classic of a worker and his small child hopelessly scouring Rome for a stolen bicycle (TIME, Dec. 12).

All the King's Men. The sensational rise & fall of a grass-roots demagogue; produced, directed and scripted by Robert Rossen (TIME, Dec. 5).

The Fallen Idol. Graham Greene and Carol Reed (see above) wring suspense from the story of a small boy (Bobby Henrey) in a world of adult intrigue; with Ralph Richardson (TIME, April 4).