Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 1, 1955

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The Shrike. The depressing story of a morally helpless husband (José Ferrer) and his predatory wife (June Allyson); a brilliant movie translation of Joseph Kramm's Pulitzer-Prizewinning play (TIME, July 25).

Mr. Roberts. First-rate retelling of the long-run Broadway hit about life aboard a Navy supply ship; with Henry Fonda, James Cagney (TIME, July 18).

Summertime. Katharine Hepburn finds love and gentle heartbreak in Venice; with Rossano Brazzi (TIME, June 27).

The Great Adventure. Arne Sucks-dorff's nature film, a blending of terror and tenderness in the seasonal round of life in a Swedish forest (TIME, June 20).

The Seven Year Itch. Though the ads promise more fun than the picture delivers, Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell help Director Billy Wilder make George Axelrod's comedy a fairly engaging romp (TIME, June 13).

Hiroshima. A propaganda-heavy but harrowing Japanese-made film about the atomic destruction of a living city (TIME, May 23).

Violent Saturday. Three thugs rob a bank in a picture as simple and nerve-racking as a bomb; with Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Ernest Borgnine (TIME May 16).

Marty. The love story of a "very good butcher"; home truth and homely humor in the life of an ordinary man—well perceived by Playwright Paddy Chayefsky, well expressed by Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair (TIME, April 18).

East of Eden. Director Elia Kazan does his best with one of John Steinbeck's worst novels, and a new star, James Dean, is born of his pains; with Julie Harris (TIME, March 21).