Gypsy. In this stripsnorter of a show adapted from the Broadway musical abstracted from Gypsy Rose Lee's autobiography, Rosalind Russell is marvelous as a stage mother whose daughter can't act, but is pretty good at takeoffs.
Period of Adjustment. Jim Hutton and Jane Fonda are fun in this sappy screen version of Tennessee Williams' "serious comedy" of postmarital relations.
II Grido. A mournful little movie, made in 1957, in which Italy's Michelangelo Antonioni first fumbles with the material he later handled so powerfully in L'Avventura.
Billy Budd. Herman Melville's didactic tale has been transformed into a vivid, frightening, deeply affecting film, and for this the credit belongs principally to Britain's Peter Ustinov, who directed the picture, helped write the script, and plays one of the leading roles.
The Manchurian Candidate. In this self-consciously "different" movie about a posthypnotic political assassination, Laurence Harvey's brains are washed, tumble-dried and dyed Red in a Chinese P.W. camp, and he ends up stalking a U.S. presidential candidate with murderous intent.
Phaedra. Melina Mercouri purrs, snarls and shrieks in this modern-day version of an old Greek myth. Raf Vallone, as her ship-tycoon husband, is healthily Hellenic in a role with obvious overtones of Onas sisism. Only Tony Perkins seems somewhat less than believable as Vallone's stepson.
Long Day's Journey into Night. Director Sidney Lumet and a generally effective cast (Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr., Dean Stockwell) have translated the truest and the greatest of Eugene O'Neill's plays into one of the year's finest films.
Divorce—Italian Style. This wickedly hilarious lesson in how to break up a marriage in divorceless Italy stars Marcello Mastroianni as a Sicilian smoothie who sheds his unwanted wife in the only way the law seems to allow: he provides her with a lover, catches them together, shoots her dead. But then . . .
TELEVISION
Wed., Nov. 21
N.Y. Philharmonic Young People's Concert (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* "The Sound of a Hall," conducted and narrated by Leonard Bernstein, explores the general relationship of acoustics to music and the particular sound of Lincoln Center's new Philharmonic Hall.
Thurs., Nov. 22
Thanksgiving Parade (CBS and NBC, 10 a.m.-noon). A cornucopia of coast-to-coast celebrations with bands, baton twirlers, floats and all.
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Poet Carl Sandburg reads from his "Remembrance Rock." John Raitt, Martha Wright, Mahalia Jackson and the West Point Glee Club sing. Color.
Premiere (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Carol
Lynley and Anthony George co-star in "Whatever Happened to Miss Illinois?", the story of a beauty-contest runner-up who likes the up part but not the running.
Fri., Nov. 23
Jack Paar (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Also starring: the newly elected Senator and Mrs. Ted Kennedy, Singer Genevieve. Color.
Sat., Nov. 24
Exploring (NBC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). The new educational children's program looks at an underwater ballet, a puppet film produced by Designer Charles Eames, and a Czechoslovakian movie in which all objects are glass. Color.