Cinema: Oct. 19, 1962

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Long Day's Journey into Night. The

greatest and most personal of Eugene O'Neill's plays has been respectfully translated by Director Sidney Lumet and a capable cast (Katharine Hepburn, Sir Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr., Dean Stockwell) into one of the year's finest films: a fearsome examination of the terrible things people do to each other in the name of love.

Gigot. A nice sentimental comedy in which Jackie Gleason plays a Parisian janitor and looks like an overweight hippopotamus impersonating the poor little match girl.

Barabbas. A religious spectacle that is also something of a religious experience: Par Lagerkvist's novel about the man who went free when Christ went to the Cross has been dramatized with spiritual insight by Christopher Fry, and is played with crude vigor by Anthony Quinn.

Divorce—Italian Style. A murderously funny study of what happens when a marriage breaks up in Italy—it doesn't go pffft!, it goes rat-tat-tat. Marcello Mastroianni is hilarious as the husband, a tin-typical Sicilian smoothie.

The Island. A Japanese movie that means to be great: the story, told without words, of the hard but beautiful life a poor farmer and his family lead on an isolated islet in Japan's Inland Sea.

Yojimbo. A Japanese movie that really is great: a work by Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa that seems no more than a bloody and hilarious parody of a Hollywood western but develops into a satire that can stand with the beastliest and best of Bertolt Brecht.

Guns of Darkness. A routine bit of bananality, about a Central American revolution, that surprisingly develops into a philosophical thriller.

The Girl with the Golden Eyes. A young French director named Jean-Gabriel Albicocco has turned Balzac's dated daydream of Sapphic sensuality into an updated, unregenerate nightmare.

TELEVISION

Wed., Oct. 17

Campaign '62 (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.).* A look at the progress of various political campaigns, with ten CBS correspondents reporting from hither and yon.

The Eleventh Hour (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Wendell Corey is a convincing psychiatrist in this new series, which tonight involves a man who wants to have his wife psychiatrically examined prior to a court hearing over custody of their child.

Fri., Oct. 19

The Gallant Men (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A reasonably good war show set in Italy in 1943.

The Jack Paar Program (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Among Jack's guests: Gordon and Sheila MacRae.

Eyewitness (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). The top news story of the week.

Sat., Oct. 20 Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum in River of No Return.

Sun., Oct. 21

Lamp Unto My Feet (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). Opening ceremonies of the Ecumenical Council at the Vatican, with reports, discussions, interviews.

Look Up and Live (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). Man's fate in four episodes from Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A study of the modern U.S. Marine Corps. Repeat.

Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 10-11

p.m.). Tonight: Robert Goulet, Barbara

Cook, Carla Fracci, Eric Bruhn, Martyn

Green, Cyril Ritchard, and Claudio Arrau.

Mon., Oct. 22