Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Aug. 11, 1961

CINEMA

The Honeymoon Machine. This is the Hollywood machine in a rare moment of felicitous clank, turning out a slick, quick, funny comedy about sailors, girls, a roulette table and a computing machine. With Steve McQueen and Paula Prentiss.

Fate of a Man (in Russian). Sergei Bondarchuk, a top Soviet film maker, directs his own powerful performance in this freely sentimental story of a soldier who is reduced to flotsam by war, then made whole again by the love of an orphan.

Misty. Good fun for the slingshot set; the story of two children who plot to buy a wild pony.

The Parent Trap....

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