Cinema: Dec. 1, 1961

The Five-Day Lover. France's Philippe de Broca (The Love Game) has produced a minor comic mattresspiece in which hero (Jean-Pierre Cassel) and heroine (Jean Seberg) tear up the sheets with hilarious abandon; but then at the last minute, the director figuratively draws the sheets over the lovers' faces—the contemporary bedroom, he seems to be saying, is a morgue.

A Summer to Remember. The Soviet film industry, which has recently been testing products of high entertainment yield and low propaganda fallout (Ballad of a Soldier, Fate of a Man), now releases a warm and wonderfully funny story of a little boy's life with father in contemporary Russia.

The Kitchen. Too many cooks cannot spoil this spluttering slumgullion of socialism and melodrama, heated to a rolling boil by British Playwright Arnold Wesker.

Greyfriars Bobby. Walt Disney unleashes another muttinee idol in this film about the Skye terrier who, a century ago, won the freedom of the city of Edinburgh.

West Side Story. Despite some sick-sick-sick pseudosociology, Broadway's long-running choreoperetta makes a big, fast, exciting cinemusical.

Loss of Innocence. A thriller of sensibility, based on Rumer Godden's novel The Greengage Summer, celebrates a sophisticated rite of puberty in a French château.

Breakfast at Tiffany's. Audrey Hepburn's soignée expense accountess may not quite be Holly, but she plays Truman Capote's heroine with grace and wit.

Macario. The black-and-white magic of the motion-picture camera is artfully employed in this Mexican adaptation of B. Traven's profound little fable about a woodcutter who sups with Death.

The Hustler. Director Robert Rossen racks up an impressive total score in this tale of a young pool paladin (Paul Newman) who learns that character, meaning Old Champ Jackie Gleason, is more important than talent.

TELEVISION

Wed., Nov. 29

Hollywood: The Golden Years (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Gene Kelly narrates an hourlong special about the silent era, from 1903's The Great Train Robbery to 1927's The Jazz Singer.

The World of Billy Graham (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Another special, following Dr. Billy through the routines of his working day, his home life, his foreign crusades.

Thurs., Nov. 30

Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Julie Harris stars in a TV adaptation of Laurence Housman's dramatic portrait of Queen Victoria. Color.

Yves Montand on Broadway (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The Caruso of the master bedroom sings Broadway show tunes and American folk songs in the company of such outstanding guest performers as Helen Gallagher and John Raitt.

Fri., Dec. 1

The New York Philharmonic Young People's Concert with Leonard Bernstein (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Claude Debussy's La Mer and Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé are the central examples in a program that asks: "What Is Impressionism?" Lenny answers.

International Showtime (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Some of the Continent's funniest clowns, assembled and photographed in Lausanne.

Frank McGee's Here and Now (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). News features, including a discussion of football deaths by the sports committee of the American Medical Association.

Sun., Dec. 3