CINEMA
The Horizontal Lieutenant. Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss add up to 12 ft. 1 1/4 in. of fun in a tall story about 4,000 chuckleheaded U.S. servicemen locked in unequal struggle with a superior enemy: one sneaky Japanese soldier.
Bell' Antonio. A thoughtful but not profound discussion of impotence by Italy's Mauro Bolognini.
All Fall Down. Angela Lansbury is worth seeing in a picture worth fleeing--she plays a small-town hen who broods tenderly over her chicks (Warren Beatty, Brandon deWilde) till they can hardly breathe, clucks witlessly at them till they can scarcely hear themselves think, then henpecks them half to death for their own good.
Viridiana. Made in Spain on Franco's money but banned in Spain by Franco's decree, this peculiar and powerful film by Luis Bunuel predicts in parable the next Spanish revolution, and contains an orphic orgy of Goyesque genius.
Sweet Bird of Youth. Tennessee Williams' Bird was an artistic turkey on Broadway, but as directed by Richard Brooks it makes a noisy and sometimes brilliant peacock of a picture. Geraldine Page as an aging cinemama blazons a memorable skidmark on the go-away-and-don't-comeback trail.
Through a Glass Darkly. Perhaps the best, certainly the ripest film ever made by Sweden's Ingmar Bergman.
Last Year at Marienbad. A cinenigma worked out by two Frenchmen, Scenarist Alain Robbe-Grillet and Director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Mon Amour), that has become the intellectual sensation of the year in films.
The Night. The fashionable ailment of anxiety is skillfully anatomized by Italy's Michelangelo (L'Avventura) Antonioni.
Lover Come Back. Animadversions on advertising, wittily written by Stanley Shapiro and blandly recited by Doris Day and Rock Hudson.
A View from the Bridge. Arthur Miller's attempt to find Greek tragedy in cold-water Flatbush errs in concept but succeeds in details.
TELEVISION
Wed., April 18 Howard K. Smith--News and Comment (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).-- Summary of the week's most important news items, with analysis.
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Topics tonight: the development of the American motel, plus President Kennedy's retraining program in West Virginia.
Thurs., April 19 Special for Women (NBC, 3-4 p.m.). Troubled relationships between parents and a young son are explored in "The Problem Child."
CBS Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The program continues to explore the U.S. income tax scene, taking up the proposal to limit expense-account allowances. Restaurateur Vincent Sardi Jr., whose show biz restaurants are favorites with expense-account men, will be interviewed.
Sat., April 21 Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Clark Gable and Susan Hayward in Soldier of Fortune, 1955.
Sun., April 22
The Hound of Heaven (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). An Easter reading of Francis Thompson's religious poem.
Protestant Service (CBS, 11 a.m. to noon). Live broadcast of the Easter service at the Trinity Lutheran Church, Long Island City, N.Y.
Directions 62 (ABC, 2:30-3:30 p.m.). ABC has commissioned Pianist-Composer Earl Wild to do an Easter oratorio, based on the visions of St. John the Divine, incorporating dance, music, song and stage production.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Tonight's documentary starts with a visit to the Great Exposition of 1851 in London, then takes a reminiscent look at world fairs since then, and a prospective one at the Seattle World's Fair of 1962 and the New York World's Fair of 1964.
Mon., April 23
Breakthrough: Heart and Artery Surgery (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Four different operations are performed, each surgeon explaining the techniques involved and recent life-saving advances in the field.
Tues., April 24
Bell & Howell Close-Up (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A study of Great Britain, as the nation wrestles with the question of joining the Common Market.
THEATER
On Broadway
A Thousand Clowns, by Herb Gardner. The freshest, funniest comedy of the season. As the chief nonconformist in a superb cast of oddballs, Jason Robards Jr. now emerges as the new clown prince of Broadway.
The Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. On a Mexican veranda, four desperate people break out of the cycle of self-concern to achieve self-transcendence. Williams' best play since A Streetcar Named Desire.
Ross, by Terence Rattigan. The puzzle of T. E. Lawrence is pieced together in fascinating, though debatable, fashion in this play. John Mills portrays the hero with lacerating honesty.
A Man for AH Seasons, by Robert Bolt, might have drawn its theme from Shakespeare's "Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own." Playing Sir Thomas More, Paul Scofield is flawless.
Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, makes God and man all too human, but Fredric March as God and Douglas Campbell as Gideon occasionally approach the sublime.
A Shot in the Dark, adapted from a Paris hit, is tres tres sleek and sassy, with Julie Harris starring as a sleep-around maid.
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a musical with a witty mind (Director-Librettist Abe Burrows) and a hero of exuberant guile (Robert Morse), whose rise from window to executive seat polishing is a joy to behold.
Off Broadway
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit, turns the battle of the sexes into a surrealistic rout. Among the Venus flytraps, Barbara Harris glistens as the most hilariously voracious sexling since Lolita.
Brecht on Brecht generates dramatic excitement from a revue-styled montage of the songs, poems, scenes, and aphorisms of a 20th century master of theater.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Ship of Fools, by Katherine Anne Porter. The ship is a German passenger-freighter that steams from Vera Cruz to Bremerhaven in 1931. The allegory is that this and all passages of the world's voyage are dismal; the art is consummate.
In Parenthesis, by David Jones. The author, a painter who sometimes turns to prose and poetry, uses an unorthodox but effective amalgam of both in this bitter novel about the total irony of war.
Scott Fitzgerald, by Andrew Turnbull. A meticulous, sensitive biography of the writer who invented the Jazz Age and the Lost Generation, poured himself down the drain with the dregs of martinis, and is now riding a wave of posthumous popularity.
A Long and Happy Life, by Reynolds Price. This uncommonly good first novel tells of a Carolina country girl coming to womanhood.
The Blood of the Lamb, by Peter De Vries. The humorist abandons gaiety, if not humor; in this bitter and wholly serious novel of a man's loss of faith, life is seen to be a cruel joke.
Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, by John Updike. Literary exercises by America's most prestigious young writer, author of Pool-house Fair and Rabbit, Run.
The Rothschilds, by Frederick Morton. A dynastic biography of the family that knew so well How to Succeed in Business that they rose from the ghetto to an eminence from which they could tell Queen Victoria to get off their flower beds.
Best Sellers FICTION 1. Franny and Zooey, Salinger (1, last week) 2. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (2) 3. The Fox in the Attic, Hughes (3) 4. The Bull from the Sea, Renault (6) 5. Devil Water, Seton (5) 6. A Prologue to Love, Caldwell (4) 7. Chairman of the Bored, Streeter (7) 8. Ship of Fools, Porter 9. Captain Newman, M.D., Rosten 10. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (8) NONFICTION 1. My Life in Court, Nizer (2) 2. Calories Don't Count, Taller (1) 3. The Guns of August, Tuchman (3) 4. The Rothschilds, Morton (4) 5. The Making of the President 1960, White (7) 6. The Last Plantagenets, Costain (5) 7. CIA: The Inside Story, Tully (6) 8. Scott FitzgeraEd, Turnbull 9. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (10) 10. Six Crises, Nixon
-- All times E.S.T.
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