Time Listings: Dec. 28, 1962

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Jumbo. Broadway's elephantasy of 1935, pumped full of Metrocolor, comes to the screen as a "pulchatoobinous pachadoim" of a picture—anyway, that's the way Jimmy Durante says it, and in this picture Jimmy is 100% right. Martha Raye is 99% right. And Doris Day is Doris Day.

No Exit. A competent cinemadaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's celebrated attempt to demonstrate the existentialist tenet that hell is other people.

Gay Purree. A full-length, somewhat overanimated cattoon about a pretty French pussy named Mewsette who falls in with a sinister allee cat but is rescued by a hair-trigger mouser.

The Legend of Lobo. Walt Disney, who thinks that wolves are really nicer than people, tries to prove it by telling the story of a 150-lb. monster who terrorized New Mexico in the 1890s. Disney is sort of crying sheep, but the kids won't care.

The Reluctant Saint. Maximilian Schell attains new histrionic heights in the amusing, amazing story of San Giuseppe of Cupertino (1603-63), a saint who could literally fly.

Two for the Seesaw. Shirley MacLaine is pretty funny in a pretty funny film version of William Gibson's Broadway comedy. Robert Mitchum is not.

The Long Absence. A man who doesn't know who he is and a woman who thinks he is her husband suffer their strange dilemma in a strange but affecting French film, thoughtfully directed by Henri Colpi.

Mutiny on the Bounty. Trevor Howard, as Captain Bligh, is all man and a yardarm wide in MGM's $18.5 million reconstruction of The Bounty, but Marlon Brando has chosen to play Fletcher Christian as a sort of hard-alee Hamlet.

Billy Budd. An exciting and disturbing study of good and evil, based on Herman Melville's moralistic novel; Peter Ustinov directed the picture with style, and plays one of the principal roles with skill.

Long Day's Journey into Night. Eugene O'Neill's play, one of the greatest of the century, is brought to the screen without significant changes and with a better than competent cast: Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr. and Dean Stockwell.

TELEVISION

Wed., Dec. 26

Years of Crisis (CBS, 7:30-9 p.m.).* CBS correspondents from all over gather in New York to assess the major news events of 1962.

The United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Patty Duke as a hotelkeeper's daughter who charms celebrated guests.

Fri., Dec. 28

I'm Dickens . . . He's Fenster (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). TV's best new comedy series —about a couple of slapsticky carpenters.

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

Sat., Dec. 29

East-West Football Game (NBC, 4:45-7:30 p.m.). From San Francisco.

Sun., Dec. 30

Lamp Unto My Feet (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). An interview with Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, former Archbishop of Canterbury.

National Football League Championship Game (NBC, 1:45 p.m. to conclusion). From Yankee Stadium.

Issues and Answers (ABC, 3-3:30 p.m.). Guest: Walter Heller, chairman of President Kennedy's Economic Council.

1962: A Television Album (CBS, 3:30-5 p.m.). Highlights of the news of 1962.

This Is NBC News (NBC. 4:30-5 p.m.). Survey of the outstanding news events of the previous week.