The Roof (Italian). The ablest of Italy's neorealists, Director Vittorio De Sica and Scriptwriter Cesare Zavattini, prescribe a bitter pill—the hard facts of life in a housing shortage—but sugar-coat it with a shining story of young love.
Count Your Blessings. A pleasant little comedy about a modern Penelope (Deborah Kerr) and her absentee husband. With Maurice Chevalier.
Room at the Top. An old-fashioned plot about social climbing, recalling Stendhal's The Red and the Black, in a modern welfare-state setting. Based on a book by John Braine, one of Britain's angry young novelists, the picture sometimes verges on caricature and cliche, but it remains one of the best British movies in years.
Alias Jesse James. Bob Hope as the world's worst insurance agent.
Compulsion. The Leopold-Loeb case recreated in a taut, adult melodrama.
The Diary of Anne Frank. One of Hollywood's masterpieces.
Some Like It Hot. Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis hilariously impersonating a couple of girls and Marilyn Monroe triumphantly impersonating herself.
The Sound and the Fury. Faulkner's novel turned into a sort of magnolia-strewn Jane Eyre.
Aparajito (Indian). This sequel to Father Panchali by brilliant Director Satyajit Ray movingly describes an Indian family's sorrowful, hopeful encounter with modern times.
TELEVISION
Wed., May 27 Kraft Music Hall (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.).
TV's persistent attempt to revive vaudeville, with a veteran vaudevillian, June Havoc, and visiting British TV Comic Dave King. Color.
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m. ) . One of the few live dramas left on TV tackles a real-life problem: the use and misuse of hypnosis in dentistry and medicine.
Thurs., May 28 Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.).
Playwright Rod Serling switches from big business (Patterns) to big labor in The Rank and File, a look at a Senate investi gation of labor racketeering. With Van Heflin, Luther Adler and Carl Benton Reid.
Fri., May 29 Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.).
Unabashed shilling for Walt's upcoming picture, Darby O'Gill and the Little Men.
But with that Hollywood Irishman Pat O'Brien to help, / Captured the King of the Leprechauns, Walt's encounter with a County Kerry shanachie (storyteller), should be a good green hour.
Sat., May 30 The Perry Como Show (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). With Comedian Andy Griffith, Singer Betty Johnson and Ed ("Kookie") Byrnes, the jive-talking wonderboy of Tin Pan Alley. Color.
Sun., May 31
Bishop Pike (ABC, 12 noon-12:30 p.m.). This time the bishop brings on his daughter Cathy (age 16) to tell teen-agers What to Do With Your Life.
The Eternal Light (NBC, 1:30-2:30 p.m.). A tour of the Holy Land narrated by Ralph Bellamy.
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). With those loud nightclub champs, Louis Prima and Keely Smith. Color.
Mon., June 1
Bold Journey (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Five amateurs and one pro at the breakneck business of mountain climbing. This time it is the 1952 French assault on Aconcagua in the Argentine Andes, highest (22,270 ft.) peak in the Western Hemisphere.
Tues., June 2