Cinema: Current & Choice, Jul. 7, 1947

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They Won't Believe Me. Robert Young and Susan Hayward in a shrewd, sordid show about love and money (TIME, June 23).

The Web. Edmond O'Brien, Vincent Price and Ella Raines in a taut-spun murder melodrama (TIME, June 23).

Possessed. An involved and rather sudsy psychiatric story, acted with conviction by Joan Crawford and Van Heflin (TIME, June 16).

Miracle on 34th Street. A surefire, brightly cynical bit of whimsy about a man who thinks he's Santa Claus, and his effect on Manhattan's retail Christmas trade (TIME, June 9).

High Barbaree. June Allyson and Van Johnson in a pleasant romance about a boy who forgot his childhood dreams and a girl who never forgot (TIME, June 9).

The Woman on the Beach. Joan Bennett, Charles Bickford and Robert Ryan in an intelligent triangular thriller, well directed by Jean Renoir (TIME, June 2).

Great Expectations. A fine Dickens story, brought vividly to the screen by Britain's Director David Lean & colleagues (TIME, May 26).

The Farmer's Daughter. Loretta Young, with Swedish accent, teaches Political Bosses Joseph Gotten and Ethel Barrymore a thing or two about democracy (TIME, April 7).

The Macomber Affair. Hemingway's savage version of the war between the sexes with Robert Preston, Joan Bennett and Gregory Peck in fine African settings (TIME, April 7).