Long Day's Journey into Night. The
greatest and most personal of Eugene O'Neill's plays has been respectfully translated by Director Sidney Lumet and a capable cast (Katharine Hepburn, Sir Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr., Dean Stockwell) into one of the year's finest films: a fearsome examination of the terrible things people do to each other in the name of love.
Gigot. A nice sentimental comedy in which Jackie Gleason plays a Parisian janitor and looks like an overweight hippopotamus impersonating the poor little match girl.
Barabbas. A religious spectacle that is also something of a religious experience: Par Lagerkvist's novel about the man who went free when Christ went to the Cross has been dramatized with spiritual insight by Christopher Fry, and is played with crude vigor by Anthony Quinn.
Divorce--Italian Style. A murderously funny study of what happens when a marriage breaks up in Italy--it doesn't go pffft!, it goes rat-tat-tat. Marcello Mastroianni is hilarious as the husband, a tin-typical Sicilian smoothie.
The Island. A Japanese movie that means to be great: the story, told without words, of the hard but beautiful life a poor farmer and his family lead on an isolated islet in Japan's Inland Sea.
Yojimbo. A Japanese movie that really is great: a work by Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa that seems no more than a bloody and hilarious parody of a Hollywood western but develops into a satire that can stand with the beastliest and best of Bertolt Brecht.
Guns of Darkness. A routine bit of bananality, about a Central American revolution, that surprisingly develops into a philosophical thriller.
The Girl with the Golden Eyes. A young French director named Jean-Gabriel Albicocco has turned Balzac's dated daydream of Sapphic sensuality into an updated, unregenerate nightmare.
TELEVISION
Wed., Oct. 17
Campaign '62 (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.).* A look at the progress of various political campaigns, with ten CBS correspondents reporting from hither and yon.
The Eleventh Hour (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Wendell Corey is a convincing psychiatrist in this new series, which tonight involves a man who wants to have his wife psychiatrically examined prior to a court hearing over custody of their child.
Fri., Oct. 19
The Gallant Men (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A reasonably good war show set in Italy in 1943.
The Jack Paar Program (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Among Jack's guests: Gordon and Sheila MacRae.
Eyewitness (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). The top news story of the week.
Sat., Oct. 20 Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum in River of No Return.
Sun., Oct. 21
Lamp Unto My Feet (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). Opening ceremonies of the Ecumenical Council at the Vatican, with reports, discussions, interviews.
Look Up and Live (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). Man's fate in four episodes from Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A study of the modern U.S. Marine Corps. Repeat.
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 10-11
p.m.). Tonight: Robert Goulet, Barbara
Cook, Carla Fracci, Eric Bruhn, Martyn
Green, Cyril Ritchard, and Claudio Arrau.
Mon., Oct. 22
The Lucy Show (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Lucy clowns about with a $2,000 check in her new series, which does fine without Desi.
Stoney Burke (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). An interesting new series about life under the stands at the rodeo.
THEATER
The Affair. Faithfully adapted by Ronald Millar from the novel by C. P. Snow, this play scrupulously tracks justice through a lair of university dons. Intellectually sprightly and impeccably acted, The Affair offers playgoers the added pleasure of hearing literate English spoken with grace and precision.
A Man's a Man, by Bertolt Brecht. This Eric Bentley adaptation of a 1926 play by the late great German playwright uncannily prefigures the process of brainwashing. Amid chalky white masks, silent-movie captions, and honky-tonk pianos, a sardonic 20th century dirge is sounded for the death of the individual.
With the new season getting off to a sluggish start several holdovers of distinction still dominate the Broadway scene. The New York Drama Critics Circle's best-foreign-play prizewinner, A Man for All Seasons, probes the mind, heart and faith of Sir Thomas More, who chose to lose his life rather than his soul. Emlyn Williams portrays the hero-martyr. A Thousand Clowns, freshly and resourcefully comic, stars Jason Robards Jr. as a man who tries to grope his way out of groupthink toward the good life. Barbara Bel Geddes delivers Jean Kerr's subcutaneous witticisms with flair in long-running Mary, Mary.
Musicals are often the bane and sometimes the boon of Broadway's existence. The coursing humor of Abe Burrows and the kinetic energy of Robert Morse's performance help to make How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying one of those rare musicomedy triumphs of form over formula. The belly laugh is the convulsive vogue at A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, where Zero Mostel, lewdly assisted by clowns and houris, is pillaging the comic genius of Plautus to vulgar and insane perfection.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Say Nothing, by James Hanley. In a novel written almost entirely in jaggededged monosyllables, three guilt-ridden people in the north of England turn life into death by endlessly punishing one another.
The Kindly Ones, by Anthony Powell. A collection of British eccentrics, many of them familiar from the author's earlier novels, adjust fumblingly to the stern demands of World War II in this comic opera of a novel.
A Company of Heroes, by Dale Van Every. An absorbing account of the most savage and perhaps least-known side of the Revolutionary War--the long blood feud between settlers and Indians on the Western frontier.
Images of Truth, by Glenway Wescott. The author, one of the U.S.'s best nonwriting novelists (he wrote The Pilgrim Hawk), ends a long silence with a fine if critical collection of portraits of fellow authors--Katherine Anne Porter. Isak Dinesen, Thomas Mann and others.
Morte d'Urban, by J. F. Powers. A gently satirical novel about the surprisingly secular problems of a fund-raising Roman Catholic priest, written with fondness and perception but, the Lord be thanked, not a trace of cuteness.
The Climb Up to Hell, by Jack Olsen. The north face of Switzerland's Eiger (Ogre) Mountain is perhaps the most suicidal climb in the Alps, and the author's account of four ill-equipped men who tried to climb it in 1957 is thoughtful and exciting.
Letters from the Earth, by Mark Twain. These savage, scatologically irreligious papers, long suppressed by Twain's daughter, were a product of the deep melancholy of the humorist's old age.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson. An exquisitely subtle look at a household containing a lunatic, a poisoner and a pyromaniac, by an authoress who specializes in making light of the macabre.
The Death of the Adversary, by Hans Keilson. Hate has never been so exhaustively and eloquently explored as in this novel about a dictator and his victim.
The Blue Nile, by Alan Moorehead. Like its predecessor, The White Nile, this account of war and trade along the great river is a rich pageant of scenes and characters.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Ship of Fools, Porter (1, last week) 2. A Shade of Difference, Drury (7)
3. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (2)
4. The Prize, Wallace (4) 5. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (6) 6. Youngblood Hawke, Wouk (3)
7. Another Country, Baldwin (5)
8. The Reivers, Faulkner (8)
9. The Thin Red Line, Jones 10. Uhuru, Ruark (9)
NONFICTION 1. The Rothschilds, Morton (2)
2. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (3)
3. My Life in Court, Nizer (1)
4. Silent Spring, Carson
5. Sex and the Single Girl, Brown (7)
6. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (4)
7. Who's in Charge Here?, Gardner (6)
8. The Blue Nile, Moorehead (5)
9. Final Verdict, St. Johns (10) 10. JFK Coloring Book,
Kannon and Roman
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