The Bridal Path. A mildly funny, thoroughly charming, beautifully photographed piece of dialect comedy about a handsome young Scottish farmer (Bill Travers) with marriage on his mind.
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2--The Revolt of the Boyars. The late Sergei Eisenstein's contrived but lush portrait of a power-mad paranoiac, made while Stalin was still alive but only recently released by the Russian government.
Black Orpheus (French). The vitality of a tropic carnival in Brazil gives new life to the old legend. Brilliantly directed by Marcel ("New Wave") Camus
The 400 Blows (French). A small boy takes it on the lam from the mean and loveless world of his parents. But under Franc,ois Truffaut's direction, society itself takes the blame for his flight.
Ben-Hur. A real Biblical blockbuster; despite some shortcomings, worth every penny of its $15 million price tag.
Third Man on the Mountain. This cliff-climbing tour of the Alps is apparently designed to teach the kiddies that they can shinny up the Matterhorn much more easily than any creak-kneed adult.
They Came to Cordura. A motley collection of Black Jack Pershing's campaigners has as much trouble tracking down the essence of courage and cowardice as they have steering clear of Pancho Villa's irregulars.
The Magician (Swedish). Something of a magician himself, brilliant Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman unfolds an eerie tale of a mid-19th century Mesmer, generates the dark and dazzling confusion with which he delights his audiences.
North by Northwest. Hitchcock at his best, with Gary Grant and Eva Marie Saint dodging Communist spies in a shoot-'em-up that ricochets from Madison Avenue to Mount Rushmore.
TELEVISION
Wed., Feb. 3
Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* Shakespeare's The Tempest, with Maurice Evans, Tom Poston, Lee Remick, and music by Lehman Engel. Color
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The Metropolitan Opera's new Wagnerian star, Birgit Nilsson, appears in distinctly nonoperatic company: Comedienne Kay Ballard, Pop Singer Jaye P. Morgan and Dancer Carol Haney. Color
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Ghost Bomber: Lady Be Good recreates the life and death of the U.S. B-24 bomber that disappeared over Italy during World War II and was discovered in the Libyan desert 16 years later.
Thurs., Feb. 4
Revlon Special (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A Bouquet from Maurice Chevalier gives the old trouper time to resurrect some 30 songs--milestones of his long career.
Fri., Feb. 5
The Art Carney Show (NBC, 8-9:30 p.m.). One more exercise of Carney's consummate dramatic versatility. Jackie Gleason's former second banana is top man in three one-act plays: Sean O'Casey's A Pound on Demand, Noel Coward's Red Peppers, Eugene O'Neill's Where the Cross Is Made. Color.
The Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Somehow The Last Flight takes a World War I fighter plane across 43 years into the jet age.
Sat., Feb. 6
John Gunther's High Road (ABC 8-8:30 p.m.). Part II of Japan: The People, Screen Star Shirley Yamaguchi conducts a guided tour of Oriental home life
World Wide 60 (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). One of the network's major efforts to make up for past failings in cultural and information programs. Second installment in the series is Freedom Is Sweet and Bitter, a report on the growing pains and growing power of modern Africa.
Sun., Feb. 7
Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Host Charles Collingwood highlights his report on U.S. electronics research by bouncing his voice off the moon during the course of a transatlantic telephone conversation
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Dust Bowl brings back a disaster of the '30s. Walter Cronkite narrates.
Breck Sunday Showcase (NBC 8-9 p.m.). After Hours, with Sally Ann (My Fair Lady) Howes and Christopher (J.B.) Plummer, is a romantic comedy by a sometime gagwriter (Tony Webster) who has gone straight.
Tues., Feb. 9
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m ) The sometime pride of live-drama enthusiasts continues its new career as a sometime special. To the Sound of Trumpets tells a World War I love story with the help of Dame Judith Anderson, Boris Karloff and Dolores Hart.
Alcoa Presents (ABC, 10-10:30 pm) The Day the World Wept recalls the supernatural signs and portents that mourners thought they recognized when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
THEATER
On Broadway
The Andersonville Trial. Playwright Saul Levitt and Director Jose Ferrer recreate the war-criminal trial of the Confederate officer who ran the notorious Civil War prison camp at Andersonville, Ga. Although somewhat forced and ultimately unsatisfying, the moral battle in the courtroom has both bursts of eloquence and bouts of theater.
Five Finger Exercise. British Playwright Peter Shaffer introduces a family alive with tension, chafes them against one another with considerable theatrical dexterity.
Fiorello! Under George Abbott's direction, Actor Tom Bosley gives back to delighted New York audiences what they thought they had seen for the last time: the croaking voice and fire-chasing intensity of the big city's most dynamic mayor.
The Miracle Worker. William Gibson's uneven but impressive drama about the early life of Helen Keller gets electric force from Actresses Anne Bancroft and 13-year-old Patty Duke.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Brazen Chariots, by Robert Crisp. The inferno of tank warfare has never been better described than in this book by a South African major in the British Army who had 17 tanks shot out from under him in the desert campaign against Rommel.
The Last Valley, by J. B. Pick. A tautly written parable whose characters, caught in the senseless violence of the Thirty Years' War, search for clues to the meaning of an incomprehensible world.
Boswell for the Defence: 1769-1774, edited by William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Frederick A. Pottle. The seventh volume in the delightful Yale University series takes Bozzy through his sometimes tumultuous first years as a husband and Edinburgh attorney.
The Sage of Sex, by Arthur Calder-Marshall. The best biography yet of Victorian Sexologist Havelock Ellis suggests that he undertook his studies of the abnormal because his own sexual behavior was both immature and exotic.
The Good Light, by Karl Bjarnhof. The second volume of the author's fictionalized autobiography, which tells of his descent into blindness, is every bit as moving as its predecessor, The Stars Grow Pale.
Collected Essays, by Allen Tate. Trenchant examinations of authors, critics and 20th century society.
Charley Is My Darling, by Joyce Gary. With his customary warmth and humor the author in this early novel tells about a little devil of a slum boy evacuated to an English village during the blitz.
Where the Boys Are, by Glendon Swarthout. The annual spring invasion of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. by beer-fueled collegians becomes, in this humorous novel a comedy of Eros.
Friday's Footprint, by Nadine Gordimer. More short stories from an exceptionally skilled South African author.
Strike for a Kingdom, by Menna Gallie. A brief and beautifully written first novel of strife in the Welsh coal fields.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Hawaii, Michener (2)* 2. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)
3. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (3)
4. The Devil's Advocate, West (5)
5. The Darkness and the Dawn, Costain (9)
6. Poor No More, Ruark (4)
7. The War Lover, Hersey (8)
8. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (6)
9. Exodus, Uris (7)
10. Fuel for the Flame, Waugh (10)
NONFICTION
1. Act One, Hart (1)
2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2)
3. The Armada, Mattingly (5)
4. The Longest Day, Ryan (3)
5. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (10)
6. The Status Seekers, Packard (6)
7. This Is My God, Wouk (4)
8. My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Flynn (7)
9. The Joy of Music, Bernstein (8)
10. Meeting with Japan, Maraini
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