Television: Nov. 19, 1965

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PETER, PAUL AND MARY: SEE WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS (Warner Bros.). Contrary to the prophecy of cynics, PP&M have stuck together in spite of marriages, babies and success. But, except for two songs that recall their former magic (The Rising of the Moon, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?), their latest recording suggests that they have about played out their tune.

CINEMA JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. Marital infidelity activates the subconscious of Actress Giulietta Masina in this psychic three-ring circus staged with unbuttoned gusto by Italy's Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita, 8½), the Barnum of the avantgarde.

NEVER TOO LATE. Repeating their Broadway comedy roles in what sometimes seems to be slow motion, Maureen O'Sullivan and Paul Ford are nonetheless winning as an old married pair with an unscheduled pregnancy.

KING RAT. A cunning G.I. scavenger (George Segal) exploits his fellow prisoners of war for profit in Director Bryan Forbes's brutal, unforgettable essay on the morality of survival in a Japanese prison camp. Among those caught in the conman's toils, James Fox and Tom Courtenay struggle most impressively.

REPULSION. Men pursue a sexually repressed London manicurist (Catherine Deneuve) but seldom live to tell it in a horror classic by Writer-Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water).

THE HILL. More World War II injustice rages through a British army stockade in North Africa, where Sean Connery is the much-abused prisoner.

THE RAILROAD MAN. Made in 1956, this minor drama is fired by a major talent: Director Pietro Germi (Divorce—Italian Style), who plays the title role as an endearingly wrongheaded train engineer beset by commonplace woes.

TO DIE IN MADRID. Such passionate non-partisans as John Gielgud and Irene Worth supply the commentary for vintage newsreels of Spain's tragic civil war of 1936-39, shaped by French Producer-Director Frederic Rossif into a powerful work of art.

KING AND COUNTRY. Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) takes an excruciating look at a World War I deserter (Tom Courtenay) who is doomed to die, and at the anguished officer (Dirk Bogarde) who is doomed to defend him.

DARLING. Julie Christie is the apotheosis of trumped-up celebrity as a kooky, easy jet-set playgirl whose every misstep helps in the social climb.

THE MOMENT OF TRUTH. Big money, beautiful women and sudden death await an ignorant peasant (played by Spain's Matador Miguel Mateo) in an angry, bloody drama about the bullring.

BOOKS

Best Reading THE CENTURY OF THE DETECTIVE, by Jiirgen Thorwald. The author of The Century of the Surgeon expertly follows the fascinating history of criminology, illustrating it with a gallery of grisly crimes.

RUSSIA AND HISTORY'S TURNING POINT, by Alexander Kerensky. An intriguing though somewhat sketchy eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution as seen by its first Prime Minister.

THE COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. The first complete collection of stories by the author of Ship of Fools confirms her standing as a master stylist but suggests that her art is often wanting in human warmth.

BLOOD ON THE DOVES, by Maude Hutchins. An eerie journey into the depths of an insane mind, told with a skill that transforms psychiatry into living literature.