A Night to Remember. The R.M.S.
Titanic's voyage to disaster, with all the heroism and hysteria reported in Walter Lord's 1956 bestseller. Done in stark, documentary style, with skillful collaboration from Scriptwriter Eric Ambler and Actor Kenneth More.
torn thumb. The familiar tall story and its tiny hero, tastefully refurbished by Hollywood. The Grimms would never recognize its goofy love plot or its gay puppets, but the kids may like it better than the grim original.
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. An uneven but generally appealing picture, in which Ingrid Bergman, as a gentle Englishwoman bent on converting China's millions, covers more ground than Marco Polo and seems in no hurry (2 hr. 37 min.) to get the job done.
Auntie Mame. A fierce, frenetic bout between a rather ridiculous script and a superb Rosalind Russell. In the end, Mame is the winner on a split decision.
He Who Must Die (French). A powerful Jules (Riftft) Dassin version of The Greek Passion, Novelist Nikos Kazantzakis' attempt to show how the life of Christ coincides with the lives of all men in a condition of continuous Calvary.
Separate Tables. A piece of superb showmanship by Playwright Terence Rattigan, the Barnum of the inner life, who exhibits some arresting emotional specimens in a seaside boarding house. Excellently acted by Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, David Niven, Wendy Hiller, Gladys Cooper.
TELEVISION
Wed., Jan. 14 Kraft Music Hall (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.)*
Uncle Miltie's starting team has been none too powerful, but his bench is as strong as any in the league; this week's player is Gospel Singer Mahalia Jackson.
U.S. Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).
Viveca Lindfors as an English lady whose disquieting and perhaps murderous past catches up with her years later in Africa.
Thurs., Jan. 15 Pat Boone Chevy Showroom (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). The voice is honey, the guest Ginger (Rogers).
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.).
Playwright Allen Boretz has brought back an old acquaintance: the honest cop victimized by politics and the fickle citizenry; with Edmond O'Brien, Jack Warden.
Fri., Jan. 16 Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.).
The evolution of the elephant, from pre historic mastodons to Dumbo, with a side trip to Cambodia and a teary little documentary about an Indo-Chinese boy and his outsize pet.
The Bob Hope Buick Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Everybody wants to get into Hope's act, including Gina Lollobrigida, Jerry Colonna, Hedda Hopper. The show was filmed in Europe, during Hope's recent flying visit to U.S. military bases.
Sun., Jan. 18 The World of Ideas (CBS, 3:30-4 p.m.).
Premiere of an ambitious, if not downright cluttered, series of seminars exploring, in Socratic fashion, the fundamental principles and assumptions of the Western world; each week there will be 48 thinkers on hand, or about 40 more than Socrates was able to handle at a time.
Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). S. Ji Perelman, a long-toothed pixie who has never been able to believe his eyes, gathers together three of his stories about Hollywood's screaming Mimis under the collective title Malice in Wonderland.