Cinema: Apr. 20, 1962

The Horizontal Lieutenant. Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss add up to 12 ft. 1¼ in. of fun in a tall story about 4,000 chuckleheaded U.S. servicemen locked in unequal struggle with a superior enemy: one sneaky Japanese soldier.

Bell' Antonio. A thoughtful but not profound discussion of impotence by Italy's Mauro Bolognini.

All Fall Down. Angela Lansbury is worth seeing in a picture worth fleeing—she plays a small-town hen who broods tenderly over her chicks (Warren Beatty, Brandon deWilde) till they can hardly breathe, clucks witlessly at them till they can scarcely hear themselves think, then henpecks them half to death for their own good.

Viridiana. Made in Spain on Franco's money but banned in Spain by Franco's decree, this peculiar and powerful film by Luis Buńuel predicts in parable the next Spanish revolution, and contains an orphic orgy of Goyesque genius.

Sweet Bird of Youth. Tennessee Williams' Bird was an artistic turkey on Broadway, but as directed by Richard Brooks it makes a noisy and sometimes brilliant peacock of a picture. Geraldine Page as an aging cinemama blazons a memorable skidmark on the go-away-and-don't-comeback trail.

Through a Glass Darkly. Perhaps the best, certainly the ripest film ever made by Sweden's Ingmar Bergman.

Last Year at Marienbad. A cinenigma worked out by two Frenchmen, Scenarist Alain Robbe-Grillet and Director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Mon Amour), that has become the intellectual sensation of the year in films.

The Night. The fashionable ailment of anxiety is skillfully anatomized by Italy's Michelangelo (L'Avventura) Antonioni.

Lover Come Back. Animadversions on advertising, wittily written by Stanley Shapiro and blandly recited by Doris Day and Rock Hudson.

A View from the Bridge. Arthur Miller's attempt to find Greek tragedy in cold-water Flatbush errs in concept but succeeds in details.

TELEVISION

Wed., April 18 Howard K. Smith—News and Comment (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).— Summary of the week's most important news items, with analysis.

David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Topics tonight: the development of the American motel, plus President Kennedy's retraining program in West Virginia.

Thurs., April 19 Special for Women (NBC, 3-4 p.m.). Troubled relationships between parents and a young son are explored in "The Problem Child."

CBS Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The program continues to explore the U.S. income tax scene, taking up the proposal to limit expense-account allowances. Restaurateur Vincent Sardi Jr., whose show biz restaurants are favorites with expense-account men, will be interviewed.

Sat., April 21 Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Clark Gable and Susan Hayward in Soldier of Fortune, 1955.

Sun., April 22

The Hound of Heaven (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). An Easter reading of Francis Thompson's religious poem.

Protestant Service (CBS, 11 a.m. to noon). Live broadcast of the Easter service at the Trinity Lutheran Church, Long Island City, N.Y.

Directions 62 (ABC, 2:30-3:30 p.m.). ABC has commissioned Pianist-Composer Earl Wild to do an Easter oratorio, based on the visions of St. John the Divine, incorporating dance, music, song and stage production.