War Hunt, set in war-torn Korea, is about a war lover, a man for whom war is not hell but home. How this leads to the corruption of an innocent Korean boy is only one level of the strata of meanings explored in this low-budget film made with high intelligence and high art.
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man. There is nostalgically charming Americana in this reel-life pastiche fashioned from Hemingway's autobiographical Nick Adams stories. Paul Newman's portrayal of a punch-drunk old fighter is a memorable acting coup.
Strangers in the City is a brilliantly abrasive social shocker about a Puerto Rican family living in the rat-infested lower depths of Manhattan's Spanish Harlem. Rick Carrier's script, cast and camera work have a harsh-grained honesty.
Bird Man of Alcatraz. One of the strangest cases in U.S. penal history is that of Robert F. Stroud who spent 43 years in solitary confinement. As the convict murderer who became a bird expert behind bars, Burt Lancaster gives the finest performance of his career.
Ride the High Country and Lonely Are the Brave are off-the-beaten-trail westerns about uncommonly untamed men who refuse to traffic with, or truckle to, a mechanized civilization. The gallant losers include Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott (Country) and Kirk Douglas (Brave).
The Concrete Jungle. A saxophoney blues mocks and mourns the rise and fall of the criminal hero in this jagged, jazzy British crime thriller.
Boccaccio '70 is an erotic Italian film, though scarcely a linear descendant of Boccaccio (1313-1375). Curvilinear Stars Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and Sophia Loren lose nothing in translation.
The Notorious Landlady is Kim Novak, and her tenant, Jack Lemmon, does not ask for anything more until Scotland Yard prods him into some horribly funny discoveries.
Lolita. Any resemblance between this film and the novel is accidental and inconsequential. The partners in this esthetic crime include Author-Scripter Nabokov, Director Stanley Kubrick and Co-Leads James Mason and Sue Lyon. Peter Sellers saves some scenes, and might have saved the movie if he had been cast as Humbert.
TELEVISION
Wed., Aug. 8 Howard K. Smith: News and Comment (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* Interpretive comments on the week's events.
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Art works by a chimpanzee, children, and three French modernists. Repeat.
Thurs., Aug. 9 Accent (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). "The Gambling Americans," a visit to Reno's casinos.
The Lively Ones (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Host Vic Damone and guests Stan Kenton, Shorty Rogers, Peter Nero and the New Christy Minstrels.
CBS Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Margaret Sanger and others discuss birth control and its place in the law and society.
Fri., Aug. 10 Eyewitness (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). The week's top news story.
Sat, Aug. 11 Invitation to Paris (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Maurice Chevalier, Fernandel, Patachou, Jacqueline Francois and Jean Sablon are the tour guides on this repeat of a springtime visit to Paris.
Sun., Aug. 12 Look Up and Live (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). "Evensong: A Jazz Liturgy," final event of an international festival from Washington, D.C.'s Church of the Epiphany.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A repeat of the award-winning documentary on the work of Dr. Gordon Seagrave at his hospital in Burma.
Du Pont Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The account of Hurricane Carla's devastating visit to Galveston and the Texas Gulf Coast; narrated by Dane Clark. Repeat.
Mon., Aug. 13 Japan: East Is West (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Documentary on Japan's social, economic and cultural revolution. Repeat.
Tues., Aug. 14 Shelley Berman (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Comic Berman in a one-man monologue, which is the one thing this sometimes funny fellow does really well.
THEATER
Straw Hat
Bar Harbor, Me., Bar Harbor Playhouse: Noel Coward's comic classic, Private Lives.
Kennebunkport, Me., Kennebunkport Playhouse: Frank Lovejoy and Shepperd Strudwick in Gore Vidal's 1960 political pot-an-feu, The Best Man.
Whitefield, N.H., Chase Barn Playhouse: The Disenchanted, Broadway's 1958 soggy saga about F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Framingham, Mass., Carousel Theater: Another Night with . . ., this time with Song-and-Dance Man Donald O'Connor.
West Springfield, Mass., Storrowton Music Fair: Howard Keel hauls out Kismet for another go-round.
Newport, R.I., Playhouse: Tennessee Williams' first hit, The Glass Menagerie.
Matunuck, R.I., Theater-by-the-Sea: Robert Rounseville in a new, musical version of that old mattress frame, The Fourposter.
Nyack, N.Y., Tappan Zee Playhouse: William Gibson's The Miracle Worker, with Eileen Brennan as Annie Sullivan.
Clinton, N.J., Hunterdon Hills Playhouse: Nancy Walker in Everybody Loves Opal.
Mountainhome, Pa., Pocono Playhouse: Crazy Old Owl, a new comedy by Hollywood Scriptwright John S. Rodell, featuring a precocious seven-year-old who plays havoc with the school system. Dennis King starring.
New Hope, Pa., Bucks County Playhouse: A Penny for a Song, a new comedy by John Whiting.
Washington, B.C., Carter-Barren Amphitheater: The King and I, with Farley Granger as the King and Barbara Cook as "I."
Columbus, Ohio, Veterans' Memorial Theater: Jane Powell in Frank Loesser's felicitous folk opera, The Most Happy Fella.
Warren, Ohio, Packard Music Hall: Britain's Diana Dors in Bus Stop.
Fish Creek, Wis., Peninsula Playhouse: A reminder of the days when bedroom farce was in flower, Hotel Paradiso.
Rosemont, Ill., O'Hare Inn Theater: Heaven Can Wait (your plane might not), with John Gavin.
Danville, Ky., Pioneer Playhouse: Seven Husbands, a new play by Furniture Manufacturer turned Playwright Lewis S. Salsburg.
San Diego, Calif., Old Globe Theater: Henry IV, Part 2, Othello and The Taming of the Shrew, in rotation.
BOOKS
Best Reading Letters of James Agee to Father Flye. Revelations of a young writer's agonizing struggle to discipline his talent, as told to a kindly confidant.
The Inheritors, by William Golding. A richly imagined novel, by the author of Lord of the Flies, about the dying-out of Europe's last band of Neanderthals.
Rocking the Boat, by Gore Vidal. The playwright does not always give his best effort to these impudent essays on politics and literature, but his boat-rocking, though not dangerously violent, is worth being on hand to see.
Letting Go, by Philip Roth. The author, lured by the sirens of meaninglessness, gives too much attention to a tedious hero who finds life empty. Still, Roth's eye for irony and ear for dialogue are among the best, and they make his long novel of the university young well worth reading.
Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swinnerton. England's foremost man of letters relives a literary feud with a dead rival and decides the man was not so much his enemy as his friend.
The Reivers, by William Faulkner. The Southern writer's final work is an outlandish comedy filled with bittersweet reminiscences from his earlier novels.
Saint Francis, by Nikos Kazantzakis. Never has Francis suffered so poignantly, or been treated so compassionately.
Best Sellers FICTION 1. Ship of Fools, Porter (1, last week) 2. Youngblood Hawke, Wouk (2) 3. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (3) 4. The Reivers, Faulkner (4) 5. The Prize, Wallace (7) 6. Another Country, Baldwin (9) 7. Uhuru, Ruark (5) 8. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (8) 9. The Big Laugh, O'Hara (10) 10. Franny and Zooey, Salinger (6)
NONFICTION 1. The Rothschilds, Morton (1) 2. My Life in Court, Nizer (2) 3. In the Clearing, Frost (4) 4. The Guns of August, Tuchman (3) 5. Conversations with Stalin, Djilas (7) 6. Sex and the Single Girl, Brown (8) 7. One Man's Freedom, Williams (9) 8. Six Crises, Nixon (6) 9. Men and Decisions, Strauss 10. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (10)
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