CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER: Time Listings, Oct. 17, 1960

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CINEMA

Sunrise at Campobello. As in his stage version, Dore Schary worships rather than evaluates Franklin Roosevelt during the period when he conquers polio, setting the mold for the President-to-be. But for all this, the film offers rich, commercial entertainment, ranging from heroic drama to soap opera to political pleading.

The Entertainer. In a seedy music-hall performer, England's Angry Playwright-Scenarist John Osborne has a farfetched but arresting symbol of all that is wrong with England. But the vigor of Osborne's complaint and, above all, Laurence Olivier's relentless grotesqueries as the fatuous vaudevillian provide fascination on the screen.

The World of Apu. The third, last and most striking section in the trilogy of Indian life by Satyajit Ray brings its hero to marriage and deeper tragedy than either Father Panchali or Aparajito, the first two parts, making it the moving culmination of a naturalistic film masterpiece.

Let's Make Love. A trumped-up plot to bring Marilyn Monroe and France's rugged, gaunt-faced Yves Montand together takes the long way around to Marilyn's arms, since Montand is an unlikely billionaire who wants to be loved for himself alone. The game is forced but fun.

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. William Inge's careful insights into the problems of an Oklahoma harness salesman and his troubled family are well illuminated in the screen version, with Robert Preston setting the acting pace though occasionally running ahead of Inge's harness.

TELEVISION

Tues., Oct. 11

CBS Reports (CBS, 8-9 p.m.).* The Year of the Polaris tells the story of the successful development of the U.S.'s submarine-launched ballistic missile.

The Donald O'Connor Show (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A song-and-dance special, with O'Connor and Mitzi Gaynor. Color.

Wed., Oct. 12

Peter Loves Mary (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). First of a new series in which Peter " Lind Hayes and Mary Healy more or less play themselves—a young married couple who divide their time between show-business careers and family life.

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Biography of Adolf Eichmann.

Naked City (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A dramatic series about cops in New York, with regular guest stars. Eli Wallach is one of the first.

Thurs., Oct. 13

Nixon-Kennedy Debate (NBC, CBS and ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Third in the series. This time Nixon is in Los Angeles and Kennedy is in New York, and the argument goes back and forth across a split screen.

The Untouchables (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Robert Stack begins his second year as Government Agent Eliot Ness, battling with the oldtime Chicago mob in one of TV's most successful shows.

Closeup! (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Bell & Howell Co.'s excellent documentary series now turns to Haiti, the French-speaking Caribbean nation uncomfortably situated between Castro's Cuba and Trujillo's Dominican Republic.

Fri., Oct. 14

Purex Special for Women (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Première of a seven-part series, the first a study of sexual frigidity in the U.S.

Harridan & Son (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Pat O'Brien in a new series about a New York lawyer and his son.