D: Victor Saville. Walter Pidgeon, Deborah Kerr, Angela Lansbury, Binnie Barnes, Janet Leigh, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen. Good cast fails to enliven wooden drama about a crisis in the life of kindly, highly principled Pidgeon, living in a stuffy small town outside London and trapped in a marriage to coldhearted Lansbury.

D: John Sturges. Susan Peters, Alexander Knox, Peggy Ann Garner, Dame May Whitty, Phyllis Thaxter, Ron Randell, Allene Roberts. Well-wrought drama of crippled wife using ailment to hamstring husband and children. Comeback film for wheelchair-bound Peters, who was severely injured in a 1944 hunting accident; sadly this was also her final feature.

D: George Cukor. Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Margaret Wycherly, Forrest Tucker, Frank Craven, Audrey Christie, Horace (Stephen) McNally, Darryl Hickman, Howard da Silva, Donald Meek. Reporter Tracy sets out to write the true story of a beloved, just-deceased American patriot. Dated, somewhat heavy- handed treatment of a still-timely theme: the pitfalls of blind hero worship. Scripted by Donald Ogden Stewart, with some interesting echoes of CITIZEN KANE.

D: George Cukor. Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt, Osa Massen, Reginald Owen, Albert Bassermann, Marjorie Main, Donald Meek, Connie Gilchrist, Henry Daniell, Richard Nichols. Crawford has one of her most substantial roles in this exciting yarn of a scarred woman whose life changes when she undergoes plastic surgery. Taut climax spotlights villain Veidt. Originally filmed in 1938 in Sweden, as EN KVINNAS ANSIKTE, with Ingrid Bergman; script by Donald Ogden Stewart and Elliot Paul.