Tomorrow Is My Turn. A military melodrama, directed by France's Andre Cayatte, that has some discriminating things to say about apparent and actual freedom and bondage.
The Lower Depths. Akira Kurosawa's Japanization of the classic proletarian comedy by Maxim Gorky boils with demonic energy and rocks with large, yea-saying laughter.
The Night. Marriage without love and life without meaning are examined with talent, intelligence and despair by Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura), whose text might be taken from W. H. Auden: "The glacier knocks in the cupboard, / The desert sighs in the bed, / The crack in the teacup opens / A lane to the land of the dead."
Victim. An entertaining but tendentious thriller that illustrates a shocking statistic: in nine out of ten cases of blackmail in Britain, the victim is a homosexual. Not for the kiddies.
Sail a Crooked Ship. The last movie made by the late Ernie Kovacs is a sort of shaggy seadog story in which Comedian Kovacs plays "a unsussessful crinimal" with a big cigar and a tiny brain.
Lover Come Back. Gagman Stanley Shapiro has written a situation comedy as smooth as baby food, and Director Delbert Mann manages to strain some humor out of Rock Hudson and Doris Day.
Tender Is the Night. Jason Robards Jr. portrays the triple-distilled spirit of the '20s in a competent film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's story about a psychiatrist who lies down on the couch with his favorite patient.
A View from the Bridge. Arthur Miller's attempt to find Greek tragedy in cold-water Flatbush errs in concept but succeeds in details. Raf Vallone is memorable as a stevedore with an offbeat Oedipus complex.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. The best puppet picture ever made: a feature-length version of Shakespeare's play put together by Czechoslovakia's Jiri Trnka.
TELEVISION
Wed., March 14 The Indiscriminate Woman (NBC, 3-4 p.m.).* A study of the plight of the wom an who tries to escape inner conflict by engaging in fleeting affairs. Starring Carol Lawrence and Dane Clark. Pauline Fred erick narrates. Color.
Thurs., March 15 Oh, Those Bells! (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.).
A new comedy series starring slapstick artists, notably the Wiere Brothers.
Fri., March 16 Continental Classroom (NBC, 6:30-7 a.m.). Senator Barry Goldwater speaks on government.
The Telephone Hour (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). "The Music of Love," starring Al fred Drake, Lisa Delia Casa, Franco Corelli, Patti Page, Barbara Cook, and Dancers Jacques d'Amboise and Melissa Hayden. Color.
Sat., March 17
Accent (CBS, 1:30-2 p.m.). Author Oliver La Farge is interviewed by John Ciardi on the struggle of the Pueblo Indians to retain their ethnic identity. Show includes a tour of the famed Taos pueblo in New Mexico.
Sun., March 18
Lamp Unto My Feet (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). An original ballet based on the Old Testament Book of Esther, starring Jillana.
Directions '62 (ABC, 3-3:30 p.m.). A 15th century Book of Hours is featured in close-up illustrations from an original manuscript, long sealed in the French National Library.
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Part 2 of The Prince and the Pauper, a film made in England and starring Guy Williams and 14-year-old Sean Scully in the dual title role. Color.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The story of the 80-year fight by women for the right to vote, with Walter Cronkite as reporter.
Du Pont Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A documentary on crime in the U.S. from pre-Revolutionary days to the present. Edward G. Robinson does the narration.
Mon., March 19 Arthur Freed's Hollywood Melody
(NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The history of Hollywood musicals, starring Nanette Fabray, Shirley Jones, Howard Keel, Yvette Mimieux, Juliet Prowse, with Host Donald O'Connor and David Rose's orchestra. Color.
THEATER
On Broadway
The Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. In his wisest play, the author gathers four of life's castaways on a Mexican veranda and probes their violated hearts.
Ross, by Terence Rattigan, presents an absorbing theory of T. E. Lawrence as a man both raised and racked by his own will, and crippled by his own weaknesses.
John Mills plays the hero with anguish and skill.
A Man for All Seasons, by Robert Bolt, throws its varicolored light on the theme of public duty v. private conscience. As Sir Thomas More, British Actor Paul Scofield is faultless.
Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, treats the relationship of God and man with more humor than awe, but the superb acting ability of Fredric March and Douglas Campbell supplies the necessary power and the glory.
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is the secret that Actor Bobby Morse shares with the season's most appreciative audiences, as he clambers deceitfully and nimbly up the corporate slag heap.
Among Broadway's long-run tenants, Mary, Mary incites full houses to laugh along with Playwright Jean Kerr; Camelot's Round Table is becoming as durable as King Arthur's--and there is always the grande dame of Manhattan's musicals, My Fair Lady.
Off Broadway
Brecht on Brecht is an exciting peek at the poems, letters, scenes and songs in the treasure-trove of a 20th century master of theater. A splendid company gives magic to this revue-styled evening.
BOOKS
Best Reading
The Rothschilds, by Frederic Morton.
The absorbing story of Europe's fabulous dynasty, which rose from Frankfurt's ghetto to become the rival of royalty and the arbiter of art.
The Fox in the Attic, by Richard Hughes. The third novel by the author of A High Wind in Jamaica, well worth the two decades it took to germinate, is a sharply sketched study of England and Germany between World Wars I and II.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey. Set inside a mental hospital, this brilliant first novel is a roaring protest against middlebrow society's rules.
The Death of Ahasuerus, by Par Lagerkvist. The Wandering Jew, rendered as a study in faith and doubt, by a Nobel Prizewinning novelist who once described himself as "a believer without belief." The Guns of August, by Barbara W. Tuchman. The fateful first month of World War I as a drama in which every actor had rehearsed his part for years and yet turned into a shambles.
The Quarry, by Friedrich Duerrenmatt.
A sick old detective trapped in a sanitarium run by an archsadist--each of them the other's quarry--provides the author with a new set of grotesque mouthpieces for his macabre view of life.
The End of the Battle, by Evelyn Waugh. Part 3 of the author's Waughtime satire, in which Guy Crouchback, having made himself ridiculous in the line of duty to God and country, is rewarded by the prospect of a long and happy life.
Writers on the Left, by Daniel Aaron.
Some of the best writers in the U.S. fell for or got bullied into Communism during the Depression '30s; a look at what they said and wrote, how they fellow-traveled through ideology to disillusionment.
Best Sellers FICTION 1. Franny and Zooey, Salinger (1, last week)
2. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (2)
3. Chairman of the Bored, Streeter (3)
4. Captain Newman, M.D., Rosten (4)
5. A Prologue to Love, Caldwell (7)
6. Daughter of Silence, West (5)
7. The Fox in the Attic, Hughes (6)
8. Little Me, Dennis
9. The Ivy Tree, Stewart (8)
10. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (9)
NONF1CT1ON
1. My Life in Court, Nizer (1)
2. Calories Don't Count, Taller (2)
3. The Guns of August, Tuchman (3)
4. The Last Plantagenets, Costain (5)
5. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (7)
6. The Making of the President 1960, White (4)
7. Living Free, Adamson (8)
8. CIA: The Inside Story, Tully (6)
9. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (10)
10. My Saber Is Bent, Paar (9)
* All times E.S.T.
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