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., Aug. 26 U.S. Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).*
The daydream of every honest bookkeeper: snatch the company payroll, high-tail to Paris and set up light housekeeping with a reasonable facsimile of Brigitte Bardot. In A Taste for Champagne, Hans Con-ried, Monique Van Vooren and Scott Mc Kay make the caper come off with style.
Thurs., Aug. 27 Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). For steadfast summer viewers willing to suffer reruns, Nightmare at Ground Zero will make harrowing fare for a hot evening. Scientists at a 1954 A-bomb test are trapped by their own talents when the weather changes and an unexpected wind rains radioactive dust on their bunker.
Sat., Aug. 29 Davis Cup Tennis (NBC, 5-7 p.m.). A chance to see what the latest TV gimmicks can mean to sport reporting. The doubles, recorded in color on videotape. (Singles, 4 .p.m. Sunday.)
Sun., Aug. 30 The Ed Sullivan Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). An Army pianist named Peter Duchin makes his TV debut playing Nocturne in E Flat, the theme song that will always belong to his late father, Eddy.
Mon., Aug. 31 Peter Gunn (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Rerun of The Jockey, the adventures of a jock from the right side of the track trying to discover whether some guys from the wrong side got to his gal.
The Goodyear Theater (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). An old saw sharpened up for a new effort. When the head of the household dies and leaves no cash for the groceries, the butler comes through like a blueblood. This time it is called I Remember Caviar. Rerun.
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Rerun of the second installment of The Untouchables, a sobersided documentary of the downfall of Al Capone's prohibition empire.
Tues., Sept. 1
The Andy Williams Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). It is not easy to make a musical variety show seem different from all the others. Somehow Andy manages. This time he does it with Musicomedy Star Carol Lawrence, Comedian Stan Freberg and the Mills Brothers.
THEATER
On Broadway
A Raisin in the Sun. There is no sun in this Chicago Negro tenement, but the characters who live there light up Lorraine Hansberry's first play with love, humor and dreams of escape. J.B. Tailored by Archibald MacLeish, Job in grey flannels cuts an impressive theatrical figure, even if he does lack the fierce language and logic of his Biblical ancestor.
From the cockney and king's English of My Fair Lady, past the pure Iowa corn of The Music Man to the pidgin of Flower Drum Song, the best of the musicals make a cosmopolitan chorus. Redhead sings along only because Gwen Verdon calls the tune.
Off Broadway
Mark Twain Tonight! The white-mustached, white-suited, cantankerous old hu' morist burns as pungently as his own stogie when Hal Holbrook brings him to life in a brilliant solo.
Straw Hat
Ogunquit, Me., Playhouse: Ben Gazarra in John Osborne's angry Epitaph for George Dillon.
Stowe, Vt., Playhouse: The Hart-Kaufman comedy, You Can't Take It with You.
Falmouth, Mass., Playhouse: S. N. Behrman's Biography, with Faye Emerson.
Southbury, Conn., Playhouse: Third Best Sport, a comedy by Eleanor and Leo Bayer.
Atlantic Beach, L.I., Capri Theater: Kim Hunter stars in Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending.
East Hampton, L.I., John Drew Theater: Leueen MacGrath and Tom Helmore in Gilt and Gingerbread.
Evergreen Park, Ill., Drury Lane Theater: TV's "Richard Diamond," David Janssen, in Dead Pigeon.
St. Louis, Mo., Municipal Theater: Bells Are Ringing, with Julius La Rosa.
Santa Fe, N. Mex., Summer Theater: A Shaw standard, Don Juan in Hell.
La Jolla, Calif., Playhouse: Estelle Winwood in Too Many Husbands.
Seattle, Wash., Bellevue Playbarn: Kyle Crichton's The Happiest Millionaire.
Best Reading'
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, Khrishna 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.
The Same Door, by John Updike. Edged, understated stories in the best New Yorker tradition by one of the magazine's best young writers.
Daughter of France, by V. Sackville-West. Louis XIV's scow-shaped spinster cousin, Anne Marie, who for years drifted undisturbed through the roiled waters of the French court, is portrayed by a witty biographer.
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, by Yukio Mishima. A psychotic Buddhist priest, despising his ugly self and loathing beauty, burns down a magnificent 14th century temple--and a master of literary indirection tells why.
The Satyricon of Petronius, translated by William Arrowsmith. Antic haymaking in Nero's gaudy, bawdy Rome, described by a satirist who knew his satyrs.
Image of America, by R. L. Bruckberger. A thoughtful French priest writes what is outrageous heresy to most of his nation's intellectuals--a warm, clear-eyed appreciation of the U.S. as the 20th century's true revolutionary force.
Senator Joe McCarthy, by Richard Rovere. The fading era of the blue chin and the points of disorder, analyzed by one of Washington's sharpest observers.
The Maxims of La Rochefoucauld, translated by Louis Kronenberger. The power of negative thinking, as demonstrated by the sharp-tongued 17th century courtier, soldier and cynic.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. Exodus, Uris (2)*
2. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence(l) 3. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3) 4. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (5)
5. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (4) 6. Advise and Consent, Drury
7. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Gallico (6) 8. The Art of Llewellyn Jones, Bonner 9. Celia Garth, Bristow (8)
10. The Light Infantry Ball, Basso (9) NONFICTION
1. The Status Seekers, Packard (1) 2. For 2-c- Plain, Golden (2) 3. The Years With Ross, Thurber (3) 4. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson (4) 5. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (9 ) 6. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White (7) 7. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (5) 8.Richard Nixon, Mazo (8) 9. Senator Joe McCarthy, Rovere (6) 10. The House of Intellect, Barzunx
*All times E.D.T. *Position on last week's list.
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