On Broadway: Jun. 15, 1962

Merrill's Marauders. In its underkeyed account of jungle fighting and jungle horror, this semi-documentary film signs with honor the ordeal of 3,000 U.S. volunteers fighting behind Japanese lines in Burma.

The Miracle Worker. Anne Bancroft as Teacher Sullivan and Patty Duke as the child Helen Keller re-create their Broadway roles in what is possibly the most moving double performance ever recorded on film.

A Taste of Honey. Playwright Shelagh Delaney's story of a wise child in the Lancashire slums who knows her own mother and is determined to know herself. Rita Tushingham makes the...

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