CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Cinema

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. Robert Preston runs away with this light drama about an Oklahoma harness salesman's troubles in a direction that gloomier Playwright William Inge may not have intended, but the film is good comedy just the same.

Day of the Painter. A waggish, 15-minute tale about the wondrous work habits of a dribble-and-splotch painter.

Under Ten Flags. The German Navy's Van Heflin v. British Admiral Charles Laughton is a better than 'fair sea-fight thriller based on one of the more curious naval footnotes to World War II.

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