The FBI Story. The great names of American crime cross the screen like targets in a shooting gallery--Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger. And despite the soul-searing domestic difficulties of Special Agent Jimmy Stewart, the picture's documentary air is always absorbing.
Look Back in Anger. John Osborne's dramatic milestone about a young English outcast who actually looks back in madness more than anger, filmed in an atmosphere that suggests a dripping winter morning in the English Midlands. With Richard Burton, Mary Ure, Claire Bloom.
The Anatomy of Love (Italian). Five short stories, somewhat uneven but generally diverting, with Vittorio De Sica and a brief appearance by Sophia Loren.
The Magician (Swedish). The latest witch's brew--mesmerism, symbolism and sex--concocted by Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, one of the most intriguing moviemakers now at work.
The Man Upstairs. A topnotch thriller about a demented scientist who tries to defy the world.
North by Northwest. Hitchcock masterminding Eva Marie Saint, James Mason and a squad of spies who should know better than to try to do away with Gary Grant. Thoroughly entertaining.
The Diary of Anne Frank. One of Hollywood's rare masterpieces.
TELEVISION
Wed., Oct. 14
Du Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.).* A live TV adaptation of Graham Greene's The Fallen Idol, in which a seven-year-old English boy (Jacques Hirschler) faces the destruction of his private world when he discovers that his male baby sitter (Jack Hawkins) is having a clandestine affair with a well-endowed "niece." With Jessica Tandy.
Armstrong Circle Theatre (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A semi-documentary dramatization of last March's prison riot in Walpole, Mass., during which the warden, chaplain and guards were seized as hostages, soaked with gasoline and threatened with fiery death.
Thurs., Oct. 15
Staccato (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). As one of the new private eyes, Johnny Staccato (Actor John Cassavetes) spends 30 seconds at the piano, 30 minutes stalking Dean Stockwell, who plays a bartender suspected of hunting his free lunch with a pocket knife on the sidewalks of Greenwich Village.
The Untouchables (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The exploits of Eliot Ness, famed prohibition vigilante, are recounted in an hour-long weekly show. Narrated by Walter Winchell, the first episode ( The Empty Chair) concerns jockeying for mob leadership after Al Capone's departure for prison.
Fri., Oct. 16
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). With some TV sheriffs it's conscience that forbids pulling a gun; with Lloyd Nolan it's arthritis. In Six Guns for Donegan, Nolan plays Sheriff Darrow, whose reputation might have been salvaged more easily by a visit to the town doctor.
Pontiac Star Parade (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Victor Borge pursues an elusive tulip through this Scandinavian travelogue, and, once arrived at his Danish castle, settles down to some hilarious monkey business.
Sat., Oct. 17
Phil Silvers Special (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). In The Ballad of Louie the Louse, Comedian Silvers portrays a Broadway loan shark whose pigeons go into mourning when he supposedly drowns at sea. Needless to say, Silvers returns in time to join the wake. Uniform or no, Sergeant Bilko is a TV institution too precious to die.
Sun., Oct. 18
Our American Heritage (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Color drama about a little-known but significant period in the life of Thomas Jefferson. Ralph Bellamy stars as Jefferson and Arthur Kennedy portrays his antagonist, Alexander Hamilton.
Jack Benny Program (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Comedian Benny plays straight man to Harry S. Truman in this half-hour commercial for the Truman Memorial Library in Independence, Mo.
Mon., Oct. 19
Frank Sinatra-Timex Show (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The first of four Sinatra specials. Guests include Mitzi Gaynor, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin.
Tues., Oct. 20
Ford Startime (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Her countenance startlingly youthful and saintlike, Ingrid Bergman portrays the heroic governess who seeks to release two children from a supernatural spell in this color adaptation of Henry James's classic The Turn of the Screw. The TV script was written by James (Little Moon of Alban) Costigan.
On Broadway
Much Ado About Nothing. Suffering with one of the Bard's more boring main plots is worthwhile when the stars are John Gielgud and Margaret Leighton.
A Raisin in the Sun. A South Side Chicago Negro family fights for its "pinch of dignity" amid tears and laughter.
J.B. A 20th century morality play by Poet Archibald MacLeish, with God, the Devil and overtones of both Everyman and Faust.
La Plume de Ma Tante. An acrobatty French revue that leaves English and the audience happily fractured.
My Fair Lady, The Music Man, Redhead and Flower Drum Song are a memorable and durable quartet of musicals.
BOOKS
Best Reading
The Devil's Advocate, by Morris L. West. A first rate religious novel, utterly without peppermint piety, concerning a dying priest who investigates the claims to sainthood of a mysterious World War II deserter.
A Natural History of New York City, by John Kieran. One of the first of the great panelists, a born-and-bred New Yorker, provides pleasing information on nature's triumph over asphalt.
Observations, by Richard Avedon. Photographer Avedon proves himself an accomplished face-dropper in this fascinating series of keyhole studies of the famous.
The Rack, by A. E. Ellis. A kind of Un-Magic Mountain--the harrowing story of a tuberculous hero who hacks his way back from the glacial rim of death in a cynically commercial Alpine sanatorium.
Orde Wingate, by Christopher Sykes. A penetrating biography of the father of the Burma raiders, a brilliant fighting man with a head full of quirks and glory.
Beyond Survival, by Max Ways. U.S. foreign policy troubles, the author argues in this perspective study, are largely the result of the nation's lack of a coherent public philosophy.
Act One, by Moss Hart. One of the theater's most engaging autobiographies, by a Moss whose roles have brought few critical stones.
This Is My God, by Herman Wouk. The author, an Orthodox Jew and a best-selling novelist (The Caine Mutiny), provides a clear, simple guide to his faith.
Men Die, by H. L. Humes. A violent, gloomy, skillfully written novel in which Negro enlisted men and white officers, tunneling to make an ammunition cache of a Caribbean island, create instead a monument to doom.
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, by Vladimir Nabokov. An early, excellent Nabokov novel in which a dead author's brother puzzles over disturbing matters of art and identity.
The Siege at Peking, by Peter Fleming. The Boxer Rebellion, as the author recreates it, was a comic opera, but the bullets were authentic and so was the heroism.
The Restlessness of Shanti Andia, by Pio Baroja. A splendid tale of high 19th century adventure--duels, mutiny, piracy.
The Mermaid Madonna, by Stratis Myrivilis. Like figures on a Grecian urn, some passionate Aegean islanders fight, love, hate and die against a mythic sunscape.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1) *
2. Exodus, Uris (2)
3. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3)
4. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (6)
5. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence (4)
6. The Cave, Warren (5)
7. California Street, Busch
8. New Face in the Mirror, Dayan (8)
9. Station Wagon in Spain, Keyes (10)
10. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (7)
NONFICTION
1. The Status Seekers, Packard (1)
2. For 2-c- Plain, Golden (2)
3. Act One, Hart (6)
4. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (4)
5. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White (3)
6. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson (5)
7. The Years with Ross, Thurber (8)
8. This Is My God, Wouk
9. The Great Impostor, Crichton (9)
10. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (7)
*All times E.D.T.
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