Television: Jan. 22, 1965

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BECKET (RCA Victor). Some movies should be seen and not heard. But Paramount's version of Jean Anouilh's play needs no screen to project its thoughtful dialogue and the two magnificent voices that deliver it: Peter O'Toole's as King Henry II, Richard Burton's as the Arch bishop of Canterbury.

PATIENCE AND FORTITUDE! REMINISCENCES OF LA GUARDIA (National Voice Library at Michigan State U.). An affectionate tribute to the Little Flower by U.S. Senator Paul Douglas, who calls La Guardia "a cross between St. George and St. Vitus," plus the mayor's own summary of his New York City administration when he left office in 1945, and some homely snippets from his weekly city hall broadcasts, including one of his memorable comic-strip readings during the city's 1945 newspaper strike.

CINEMA

NOTHING BUT A MAN. The anguishing reality of how it feels to be inside the skin of an American Negro is forcefully conveyed in the story of a proud but imperfect man (Ivan Dixon) who tries to run away from the whites, his wife and his own color.

MARRIAGE-ITALIAN STYLE. A slut's prog ress from a bawdyhouse to a legal bed takes 20 years, but time passes quickly— thanks to Director Vittorio De Sica (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow) and his stars, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, who play the longtime lovers with unbridled Neapolitan brio.

ZORBA THE GREEK. Like the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, this cinemadaptation by Michael Cacoyannis raises a roaring amen to life as it is, and a lusty cheer for the man who dares to live it to hell and gone. The man is portrayed by Anthony Quinn with noble savagery and goatish gusto.

THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. All the soulful cliches of young love shimmer with freshness in this splashy, sparkling French musical by Director Jacques Demy.

GOLDFINGER. James Bond again, smoothly travestied by Sean Connery, who destroys criminals and devastates their ladies but preserves Fort Knox's gold.

TO LOVE. More sex in Sweden, but this time sex is satirized in the sappy story of a hot-blooded travel agent (Zbigniew Cybulski) who demonstrates to a merry widow (Harriet Andersson) that the best kind of travel is abroad.

MY FAIR LADY. G. B. Shaw's classic Cinderella story, set to music by Lerner and Loewe and dressed up for the screen in Cecil Beaton's eye-popping finery.

BOOKS Best Reading

JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. The horror and tragedy of the God-haunted cleric who was English literature's most powerful ironist, consummately examined by a noted contemporary British satirist.

THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF JEAN MACAQUE, by Stuart Cloete. A series of bittersweet, Boccaccio-like fables of love, stylishly narrated by a philandering journalist who believes that "with enough beds, there might be no battlefields."

LOVE AND REVOLUTION, by Max East man. An adventure-filled autobiography by the first of the Red-struck young U.S. intellectuals to comprehend the terrors and cruelties of Stalin's Russia. East man's only regret at 82 is that he didn't crowd even more into his life.

A COVENANT WITH DEATH, by Stephen Becker. A flavorful tale of a Mexican border state in the '20s, and the legal is sue of whether a man about to hang for a murder he did not commit should be punished for killing the hangman.