The Love Game (in French). A happy, bawdy, and always violently spontaneous little Parisian pajama party, billed as the first New Wave comedy, in which the exquisitely funny Jean-Pierre Cassel refuses to make Genevieve Cluny a mother, much less an honest woman.
Butterfield 8. The crude but affecting tart's tragedy of the O'Hara novel has become a sleek and libidinous lingerie meller -- featuring Elizabeth Taylor as an enthusiastic amateur.
General della Rovere (in Italian). Roberto Rossellini's first topflight film since Paisan (1946) tells the moving story of a petty larcenist, skillfully played by Vittorio De Sica, who through wartime suffering becomes the hero he was forced to impersonate.
Weddings and Babies. The personal hell of a small-time photographer torn between his mother and his mistress is filmed to artless, disheveled perfection by Independent Producer Morris Engel.
It Happened in Broad Daylight. Swiss Author Friedrich Duerrenmatt's story about a professional policeman's obsessive pursuit of a killer works up an uncommon amount of suspense, thanks to excellent performances by Gert Frobe and Heinz Ruehmann.
TELEVISION
Tues., Nov. 29
Expedition! (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.).* The unearthing of the remains of Timna, the capital city of the pre-Christian kingdom of Qataban, by a pioneering archaeological expedition to the spice caravan routes of Southern Arabia.
White Paper (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). In the premiere of a promising series, Chet Huntley tackles "The U-2 Affair" from Pilot Powers' ill-fated flight to his Moscow trial, with a stopover at the abortive summit meeting.
Wed., Nov. 30
Family Classics (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The first half of a David Susskind version of The Three Musketeers, with Maximilian Schell as D'Artagnan.
Red Skelton Special (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Red roams an imaginary Hollywood Boulevard, bumps unaccountably into Dinah Shore, Jack Paar, Mickey Rooney and George Raft.
Thurs., Dec. 1
Family Classics (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The other 1 1/2 musketeers.
Fri., Dec. 2
Our American Heritage (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Lowell Thomas narrates "Born a Giant," the story of Andrew Jackson's turbulent early years, featuring Bill Travers Barbara Rush and Farley Granger.
Sat., Dec. 3
N.C.A.A. Football Game (ABC, 4:15 p.m. to final gun). Duke at U.C.L.A.
The Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). This week's debate pits ex-Cabinet Minister Jacques Soustelle against the Moroccan Ambassador to the U.S., Dr. El-Mehdi Ben Aboud, on "What is the Solution to the Algerian Problem?"
Fight of the Week (ABC, 10 p.m. to conclusion). N.B.A. Middleweight Champion Gene Fullmer defends against what is left of four-time former Titlist Sugar Ray Robinson.
Sun., Dec. 4
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). In "The Doolittle Raid," some of its survivors, including the general himself, recall the precarious 1942 mission.
The Dinah Shore Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Taped in Paris, where the songstress sightsees with the second grand Charles--Boyer--and the Ballet of the Opera Comique. Color.
Something Special (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A series of musical and dramatic vignettes under the auspices of the American Child Guidance Foundation, with a high-priced guest list including Janet Blair, Nat King Cole, Dave Garroway, Sam Levenson, Garry Moore and Arlene Francis.
Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). In the second episode of the 26-part series, First Lord of the Admiralty Churchill helps direct the Norwegian campaign, sees the invasions of Holland and Belgium vindicate his warnings, is called to the Prime Ministry.
THEATER
Advise and Consent. Although too obviously melodramatic and politically shallow, the adaptation of the bestselling novel about a Cabinet nominee's battle for Senate confirmation often makes lively, suspenseful theater.
Period of Adjustment. Unexpectedly off the Streetcar track and concluding with togetherness instead of cannibalism, Broadway's longtime laureate of sex, Tennessee Williams, has written a deft domestic comedy about two couples' marital adjustment; the result is lively but superficial, and as often forced as forceful.
An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Coiling around each other like flowers, teen-agers or snakes, Manhattan's superb improvisationists prove that they can make hilarious fun of anything from the P.T.A. to the old Tennessee Williams.
A Taste of Honey. An unblinking look at some of the world's misfits and misfortunes, set down in leaping language by Britain's Shelagh Delaney and further enhanced by the stunning performance of Joan Plowright.
Irma La Douce. Elizabeth Seal, playing Broadway's most charming chippy, keeps this small-scale musical kicking its heels with Parisian verve and pertness.
The Hostage. A jolly but self-indulgent romp in which Playwright Brendan Behan proves himself more than a buffoon if less than a philosopher.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Sermons and Soda Water, by John O'Hara. For years the author has written heavily and at length; these three related novellas about New York and Gibbsville, Pa. are clear, short and masterful.
Tourist in Africa, by Evelyn Waugh. In a two-month trip early last year, the author returned to the scenes of some of his early, brilliant satires, brought back scattered but first-rate sketches of the gaudy human specimens he met.
Spring Song and Other Stories, by Joyce Gary. In these stories, as in the author's novels, nothing seems to be contrived and everything seems worth hearing about, whether the subjects are men at war, children, or a dodderer on a park bench.
The Light in the Piazza, by Elizabeth Spencer. A succinct, unusually fine novel about Americans abroad confronts a Southern woman and her mentally deficient daughter with an Italian family's ruthlessness and odd humaneness.
The Life and Opinions of T. E. Hulme, by Alun R. Jones. A scholarly, well-wrought biography of the eccentric English intellectual who took all knowledge for his hobby and who, despite his death at the age of 34 on the Western Front in 1917, was to become a neo-orthodox shaper of the 20th century consciousness.
Laughter in the Dark, by Vladimir Nabokov. This revival of a prehumous (1938) novel, although a mere Pninprick compared to the author's subsequent slash, foreshadows the maturer talent in describing a middle-aged Berlin art dealer of The Blue Angel epoch, whose life and dignity are degraded by a woman.
The Metamorphosis of the Gods, by Andre Malraux. To Malraux, art is religion, and to support this view, he produces flights of brilliant speculation that course throughout all of art history; if he does not persuade the reader to worship, at least he helps him to see.
The Go-Away Bird, by Muriel Spark. In the title novella and in ten accompanying short stories--mostly semi-supernatural suspense tales--the talented Scottish novelist displays her deft style and consummate con-woman skill in unmasking the hoaxing face of the world.
Rabbit, Run, by John Updike. A powerful and relentlessly depressing story about the crackup of an unspeakable Hollow Man whom the author perhaps mistakes for Everyman.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)*
2. Hawaii, Michener (2)
3. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (6)
4. The Lovely Ambition, Chase (4)
5. The Leopard, Di Lampedusa (3)
6. Mistress of Mellyn, Holt (5)
7. The Nylon Pirates, Monsarrat
8. The Dean's Watch, Goudge (7)
9. The Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (9)
10. The Child Buyer, Hersey (8)
NONFICTION
1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (2)
2. The Waste Makers, Packard (1)
3. Baruch: The Public Years (4)
4. Born Free, Adamson (3)
5. The Politics of Upheaval, Schlesinger (5)
6. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (6)
7. How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market, Darvas (9)
8. Taken at the Flood, Gunther (7)
9. The Snake Has All the Lines, Kerr
10 The Worlds of Chippy Patterson, Lewis
*All times E.S.T.
*Position on last week's list.
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