Cinema: An Eloquent Memorial

THE ICEMAN COMETH

Directed by JOHN FRANKENHEIMER

This is the first in a series of eight presentations of the American Film Theater (TIME, Oct. 1), an intricately organized system of production and distribution designed to give stage drama new permanence on movie screens. Current plans are to schedule each of the films for a brief run on different dates in different parts of the country. After that, the American Film Theater insists, they will be taken out of circulation, never to be released again.

Success has a way of changing plans like that, and The...

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