Sight and sound: the film quarterly

CONTENTS: - The cinema as a moral leveller, by George Bernard Shaw - Erotic Cinema - Play into Picture: Laslo Benedek on directing Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman - 'Red Planet Mars' - on the renaissance in Italian cinema (sequel) - extract form King Vidor's autobiography - stills from 'The Golden Coach' - sequel to the Brussels Referendum: 63 international film critics on what they consider the ten best films of all time. Results: the ten best films, main runners-up, and some personal choices. - Fulchignoni's 'Images de la Folie' - Mr Goldwyn's Happy Family: extracts from a letter from Mrs Sarah Greer to Mrs Milly Stephenson (Incl. 'The Best Years of Our Lives', ' Our very Own', 'I want you') - on the opening of the Telecinema as the National Film Theatre in London & programmes for October - December 1952 REVIEWS: - Casque D'Or - Full House - Mandy - Films from Croup 3: Time Gentlemen Please; You're only young twice; The brave don't cry. - Les Enfants Terribles - The Sound Barrier - The Happy Time - The Marrying Kids - Les Mains Sales - Anni Difficili - Clash by night - Captive City - Narrow Margin BOOK REVIEWS: - Documentary Film, by Paul Rotha - Mr Rank, a study of J.A. Rank and British films, by Alan Wood - Put money in thy purse, a diary of the film of Othello, by Michael Mac Liammoir. COVER: Marlene Dietrich.

Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection