The Devil Strikes at Night (German). A psychopolitical thriller: the story of he village idiot who challenged the Nazi monopoly on wholesale murder.
Aparajito (Indian). The brilliant second part (the first was Father Panchali) of a trilogy, made by Director Satyajit Ray, telling the story of India's social revolution in terms of one family's sorrows and beatitudes.
The Perfect Furlough. A bubbly cliche cocktail mixed by a sexy WAC (Janet Leigh) and a corporeal corporal (Tony Curtis). Guaranteed: exactly 287 laughs.
The Mistress (Japanese). A beautifully Eastern view of the rise of a fallen woman, who struggles to submit to nature rather than to the Western way of struggling against it.
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. A British western, shot in Spain, that achieves satire on the Hollywood horse opera by starring Jayne Mansfield as the sheriff's cutie.
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. A monster picture for children, which is so horrifyingly good that parents may want to taste it before the kids devour it.
A Night to Remember. The Titanic sinks again in a suspenseful movie version.
He Who Must Die (French). A modern Calvary that glares with the raw light of an essential religious experience.
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. A sentimental, overlong but often moving film, not unlike a Cecil DeMille version of Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, with Ingrid Bergman as a missionary in China.
Separate Tables. A Chekhov situation, without the Chekhov truths, brings half a dozen warped and lonely characters together in an English seaside boardinghouse. The parts provided by Playwright Terence Rattigan, a master illusionist, are well acted by Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, David Niven, Wendy Killer and Gladys Cooper.
TELEVISION
Wed., March 4 Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The engaging musical variety show bubbles on, this time with Soprano Eileen Farrell, Violinist Isaac Stern, the Joe Bushkin Quartet, Ann Blyth and Howard Keel.
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The Better Business Bureau opens its files to a semi-documentary suggesting that the buying public is one big sucker.
Thurs., March 5 Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). The unhappiness this week centers around a couple of G.I.s (Dean Stockwell and Dick York) who get all shook up in Japan.
Fri., March 6 77 Sunset Strip (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.).
One of the more ambitious — it lasts an hour — of the private-eye jobs. With Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Edward Burnes.
Cavalcade of Sports (NBC, 10 p.m.).
Welterweights Gaspar Ortega and Stefan Redl in a ten-rounder from Manhattan's Madison Square Garden.
Sat., March 7 Black Saddle (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). A meaningless title conceals a western about a lawyer (Peter Breck) almost as fast with his mouth as he is with his gun. It is all good, unwholesome fun.
Sun., March 8
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC. 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). All about hay fever and other allergies. With Allergist Dr. Leighton E. Cluff.
Wisdom (NBC, 2-2:30 p.m.). Eleanor Roosevelt discourses on the U.S. female, the political obligations of citizens. Sputnik, the future.