The Sins of Rose Bernd (German). A steaming plateful of gravy-and-dumplings naturalism in the grand German manner. Nevertheless, this modernization of a Gerhart Hauptmann play about the horrors of unmarried motherhood is often moving, thanks mostly to an intensely intelligent performance by Maria Schell.

The Perfect Furlough. A frozen Army outpost in the Arctic, with central heating by Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, makes a floe of comic clichés.

The Mistress (Japanese). A beautifully Eastern view of the rise of a fallen woman, who struggles to submit to nature rather than to the Western way of struggling against it.

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. A satiric fantasy about an Englishman instead of the beastly colonials winning the West. Jayne Mansfield is a restless native.

The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. A horrifyingly good monster picture for children.

A Night to Remember. The Titanic sinks again in a suspenseful movie version.

He Who Must Die (French). A modern Calvary that glares with the raw light of an essential religious experience.

TELEVISION

Wed., March 11

U.S. Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Tom Ewell and June Lockhart in an amiable trifle about a salesman who finds that love and education can go together.

Thurs., March 12

The Ford Show (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Grandmothers of the world, unite! Liberace is doing a guest shot. Color.

Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). First of two installments, in successive weeks, of one of the most ambitious dramatic shows in TV history: Hemingway's Spanish-war epic, For Whom the Bell Tolls. Maria Schell as Maria, Jason Robards Jr. as Robert Jordan, Maureen Stapleton as Pilar, and Eli Wallach as Rafael.

Sat., March 14

Cimarron City (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Have Sword, Will Duel presents a dazzling mixture of nationalities: a visiting Russian, Grand Duke Nicolai Alexandrovitch Danovsky, gets involved with an Irish adventurer named O'Hara, and a Latin morsel known as Conchita Lolita Sarita.

Sun., March 15

Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30-12 noon). For those with mathematically esoteric tastes, nothing beats a brisk panel discussion about testing Einstein's relativity by atomic clocks in outer space.

Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). A revival of George M. Cohan's grand old (1906) musical, Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The best of the current film documentaries does one of the most exciting of the war tales: Burma Road and the Hump.

Frances Langford Presents (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Fifteen years after she started flying around the world as the singing attraction in the Bob Hope troupe, Langford gets a TV "special" all to herself; Hope will be on hand, and so will Hugh O'Brian, Julie London, Edgar Bergen, George Sanders and Jerry Colonna.

Mon., March 16

Peter Gunn (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). The most intriguing of TVs private eyes. This time, the corpse wears mink.

The Goodyear Theater (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A B-47 once fell apart at 32,000 feet, and the men in it were moved to extraordinary action. Kerwin Mathews stars in the re-creation of the true story.