The Man Upstairs (English). "A taut, offbeat thriller, crisply written and directed, about a psychotic scientist holed up on the top floor of a rooming house, and how his fellow lodgers coax him into coming down.
North by Northwest. Alfred Hitchcock's latest cliffhanger (the cliffs are on Mount Rushmore), thoroughly entertaining and suspenseful, with Gary Grant hemmed in by spies and counterspies, among them Eva Marie Saint and James Mason.
Last Train from Gun Hill. Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn fight it out in a western shot full of sociology, child psychology and Greek tragedy, while Caroline Jones makes the best of it all as the funny, freaky heroine.
Anatomy of a Murder. Producer-Director Otto Preminger's effective courtroom melodrama that seems less concerned with murder than with anatomy. James Stewart is the lawyer and Lee Remick the defendant's inviting wife, in a court whose memorable presiding judge is famed Boston Lawyer Joseph N. Welch.
Wild Strawberries (Swedish). In his 18th film, Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman examines one day in the life of a very old and eminent doctor, employing the language of dream and symbol to achieve a moving end.
The Nun's Story. The photography is glorious, but the religious picture is blurred, as Audrey Hepburn plays a Roman Catholic nun whose choice between love of God and love of man comes hard.
Porgy and Bess. Sam Goldwyn's $7,000,000 attempt to make a cinematic success of the Gershwin folk opera, with Pearl Bailey and Sammy Davis Jr. doing their best to relieve the monotony.
TELEVISION
Wed., Sept. 2
Wagon Train (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).*One of the more successful efforts to boost a western out of the wagon ruts of mediocrity. Rerun of old (70) Movie Villain Sessue Hayakawa's magnificent failure to cross the plains as a sword-swinging samurai (TIME, Dec. 15).
Armstrong by Request (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The sort of rerun that can hardly be seen too often: an object lesson in the perils that beset the average consumer from supermarket to sidewalk grifter. The White Collar Bandit is a true-life report from the files of Manhattan's Better Business Bureau, redolent of assorted bunko artists, con men and garden-variety gyps.
Fri., Sept. 4
Ellery Queen (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Rerun of This Murder Comes to You Live, a standard whodunit with a special appeal: this time a TV panelist is murdered on the air. Involved in the happy crime: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ben Hecht, Ray Walston and Buster Crabbe. Color.
Sat., Sept. 5
Wanted--Dead or Alive (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Only another shoot-'em-up, but a welcome sign of a change in the weather. When Steve McQueen, as Bounty Hunter Josh Randal, takes up with "the Montana Kid," he will be the first of the fast-draw men to desert reruns and start fresh shows for the new fall season.
Brenner (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Rookie Cop Ernie Brenner (James Broderick) makes an unsettling discovery: sometimes a lawman has to stand up and fight back against the guys who are supposed to be on his side.
Sun., Sept. 6
The Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Janet Blair and John Raitt have the looks and the voices to sound off as fine summer substitutes for Chevy Saleswoman Dinah Shore--especially since the show is in color.
Mon., Sept. 7
John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). First of Author-Adventurer John Gunther's new series. Song of the Congo takes the world traveler back inside Africa, where a native dance company is recruited from 200 varied and often feuding tribes.
THEATER
On Broadway
A Raisin in the Sun. Sidney Poitier leads a superb cast in Lorraine Hansberry's fine first play about the hopes, fears and dreams of a South Side Chicago Negro family.
J.B. Restated by Archibald MacLeish and directed by Elia Kazan, the modern Job comes flashingly, if sometimes flatly, alive.
La Plume de Ma Tante. Two dozen Frenchmen can't be wrong in this mad and merry revue.
My Fair Lady, with Edwardian delight, The Music Man, with mid-America homeyness, and Flower Drum Song, with Oriental charm, make a trio of memorable musicals. Redhead cuts a pretty figure--and the best of it is Gwen Verdon's.
Off Broadway
Mark Twain Tonight! Actor Hal Holbrook, 34, lends wit and wile to his re-creation of Samuel Clemens, 70, in a brilliant display of Americana.
Straw Hat
Ogunquit, Me., Playhouse: Lend an Ear, a musical revue.
Brighton, Mass., Boston Arts Center Theater: Sir John Gielgud directs and stars with Margaret Leighton in Much Ado About Nothing.
Stratford, Conn., American Shakespeare Festival: The romantic comedies--A Midsummer Night's Dream, All's Well That Ends Well, The Merry Wives of Windsor--and one romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet.
Latham, N.Y., Colonie Musical Theater: Abby Lincoln in Jamaica.
Traverse City, Mich., Cherry County Playhouse: Tobacco Road, with John Carradine.
Albuquerque, N. Mex., Summerhouse: Fancy Meeting You Again, an old one by George S. Kaufman and Leueen MacGrath.
Redding, Calif., Bridge Bay Summer Theater: William Inge's Picnic.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Surgeon at Arms, by Daniel Paul with John St. John. In September 1944, Field Marshal Montgomery ordered an airborne attempt to outflank the Siegfried Line--and a former British battle surgeon who tended the wounded of that unsuccessful mission writes vividly of blood, death and capture.
Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury. New York Timesman Drury's novel about politicking in Washington is sometimes as heavy as a Times thinkpiece, but it provides a dandy guessing game: Taft, Krishna Menon and Truman are recognizable, but who, for instance, is the high-positioned skirt chaser?
The Frozen Revolution, by Frank Gibney. An expert reading of Poland's cliff-hanging predicament, halfway between subjugation and freedom, by a LIFE staff writer.
Daughter of France, by V. Sackville-West. Louis XIV's scow-shaped spinster cousin, Anne Marie, who for years drifted sluggishly through the roiled waters of the French court, is portrayed by a witty biographer.
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, by Yukio Mishima. A masterly exercise in reason-why literature--in this case, why a demented Buddhist priest, loathing beauty, burns down a magnificent 14th century Zen temple.
The Satyricon of Petronius, translated by William Arrowsmith. An unembarrassed classicist provides the best English version yet of the Priapean satire by Nero's arbiter of elegance.
The Maxims of La Rochefoucauld. Rapier thrusts at man's distended vanity by the 17th century soldier, courtier and cynic, deftly translated by Louis Kronenberger.
Richard Nixon, by Earl Mazo. An expert biography, flattering but far from a campaign puff-piece.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence (2)
2. Exodus, Uris (1)
3. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3)
4. Advise and Consent, Drury (6)
5. The Art of Llewellyn Jones, Bonner (8)
6. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (4)
7. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (5)
8. The Tents of Wickedness, De Vries
9. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Gallico (7)
10. Celia Garth, Bristow (9)
NONFICTION
1. For 2-c- Plain, Golden (2)
2. The Status Seekers, Packard (1)
3. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson (4)
4. The Years with Ross, Thurber (3)
5. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White (6)
6. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (5)
7. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (7)
8. Richard Nixon, Mazo (8)
9. Senator Joe McCarthy, Rovere (9)
10. The Great Impostor, Crichton
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