Cinema: Nov. 30, 1962

Mutiny on the Bounty. MGM's $18.5 million reconstruction of The Bounty goes bounding along at a great rate for two hours, but all at once the story springs a leak and sinks beneath contempt. Marlon Brando is a sight too cute as Fletcher Christian, but even in disaster Trevor Howard makes a superlative curmudgeon of Captain Bligh.

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Bette Davis and Joan Crawford come back big as a couple of hilarious old horrors in the year's most gorgeously gory bit of grand guignol.

Gypsy. In this stripsnorter of a show adapted from the Broadway musical abstracted from Gypsy Rose Lee's autobiography, Rosalind Russell is marvelous as a stage mother whose daughter can't act but is pretty good at takeoffs.

Il Grido. A mournful little movie, made in 1957, in which Italy's Michelangelo Antonioni first fumbled with the material he later handled so powerfully in L'Avventura.

Billy Budd. Herman Melville's didactic tale has been transformed into a vivid, frightening, deeply affecting film, and for this the credit belongs principally to Britain's Peter Ustinov, who directed the picture, helped write the script, and plays one of the leading roles.

Long Day's Journey into Night. Eugene O'Neill's play, one of the greatest of the century, describes his own family in terms of a serpent that eats its own tail, each member eating and being eaten at the same time. Principals are Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr. and Dean Stockwell.

Divorce—Italian Style. This wickedly hilarious lesson in how to break up a marriage in divorceless Italy stars Marcello Mastroianni as a Sicilian smoothie who sheds his unwanted wife in the only way the law seems to allow: he provides her with a lover, catches them together, shoots her dead. But then . . .

TELEVISION

Wed., Nov. 28

Naked City (ABC, 10-11 p.m.).*Guest Stars Richard Basehart and Robert Walker Jr. turn a sidewalk prank into tragedy in "Dust Devil on a Quiet Street."

Thurs., Nov. 29

Bob Hope Show (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). An hour of music and patter, including a Hope-ful sketch called "Bird Brain of Alcatraz," with Guests Jack Benny, Ethel Merman and Bobby Darin.

Premiere (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Hands of Danofrio," an original drama about a piece of sculpture and an art dealer's determined search for its creator.

Alfred Hitchcock (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Hugh O'Brian and Gena Rowlands share their terror in "Ride the Nightmare."

Fri., Nov. 30

Shakespeare: Soul of an Age (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Sirs Michael Redgrave and Ralph Richardson narrate excerpts from a dozen Shakespeare plays while the camera roves the original settings (the Tower of London, the Forest of Arden, Hampton Court, etc.). Color.

The World of Jacqueline Kennedy (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). A look at the First Lady's public and private lives, with comments on both from Pierre Salinger, Oleg Cassini, Margaret Mead and the late Eleanor Roosevelt.

Sat.. Dec. 1

Exploring (NBC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). For the five-to-elevens. Celeste Holm reads poems. Bud Freeman plays music, and the Ritts Puppets demonstrate math, all focusing on the aspects of color. Color.

N.C.A.A. Football (CBS, 1:15 p.m. to finish). From Philadelphia, Army v. Navy.