Cinema: Choice for 1957

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AMERICAN

Full of Life. A sort of delivery-room comedy, maybe a little too sentimental, but Judy Holliday gives vigorous mirth to the maybe (TIME, Feb. 18).

Twelve Angry Men. The necessary right and the possible wrong of trial by jury, skillfully argued by Scriptwriter Reginald Rose and Actor Henry Fonda (TIME. April 29).

Sweet Smell of Success. Scriptwriters Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman go fishing with a fine line of gab in the moral sewer—the pipeline of a well-known gossip columnist—that runs under Broadway (TIME, June 24).

Love in the Afternoon. An especially tasty little bonbon for the moviegoer with a sweet tooth. Ingredients: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier (TIME, July 15).

A Hatful of Rain. The best of all the recent Hollywood dope operas; with Don Murray. Eva Marie Saint (TIME. Aug. 5).

The Pajama Game. Producer George Abbott's WarnerColored carbon copy of his bouncy Broadway musical (TIME, Sept. 9).

Les Girls. The year's best musical, starring the year's funniest musicomedienne: Kay Kendall (TIME, Oct. 14).

Paths of Glory. A simple, almost naive cry of horror at the waste and immorality of war, uttered with passion and eloquence by Director Stanley Kubrick and Actor Kirk Douglas (TIME, Dec. 9).

The Bridge on the River Kwai. The best picture of 1957: an enthralling story of men in war; with Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, William Holden and Jack Hawkins (TIME, Dec. 23).

FOREIGN

Gold of Naples. The year's best cinemanthology: four short stories filmed by Italy's Vittorio De Sica with a sunny humor that casts some frightening shadows (TIME. Feb. 25).

The Devil's General. Helmut Käutner's painful study of a good German (Curt Jürgens) and how he went bad (TIME, May 13).

The Last Bridge. Another by Director Kautner: the parable of a German doctor (Maria Schell) and how she learns that humanity is more important than her country (TIME, Sept. 2).