CINEMA
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 is a heady pint of bitter drawn from that always leaky cask of discontent, the British working class. As a girl with a wit too many and a skin too few, Rita Tushingham may be the feminine cinema find of the year.
Jules and Jim. In France, love makes the world go triangular. Director Francois Truffaut (The 400 Blows) translates the ways of two men with a maid into a film that is charming, sick, hilarious, depressing, wise and, most of the time, quite wonderful.
The Counterfeit Traitor. In this superior spy thriller, Allied Espionage Agent William Holden outwits some believable Nazi monsters.
Five Finger Exercise probes the hurts in a blighted family that has risen from rags to wretchedness.
Sweet Bird of Youth. A bottom-drawer Tennessee Williams play has been made into good Hollywood fare with a nice scenic feel for the Gulf Coast, and rock-solid performances by Geraldine Page as a has-been star and Paul Newman as her kept male.
I Like Money. Peter Sellers in a new film version of Marcel Pagnol's Topaze—a little slow, but fey and funny.
Joan of the Angels? The question mark is a salve to any who might be offended by this excellent Polish film about demons of eroticism loose in an Ursuline convent.
Through a Glass Darkly. A brilliant analysis of four lives—a father, his son, daughter and son-in-law—by Sweden's Ingmar Bergman.
TELEVISION
Wed.. June 20
Howard K. Smith: News and Comment (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).*; Summary of the week's most important items, with analysis.
Westinghouse Presents (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Mildred Dunnock, Nancy Wickwire, Margaret Leighton, Roy Poole, Ralph Bellamy and Kevin McCarthy in a drama about a woman's readjustment to life after her discharge from a mental hospital.
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Brinkley visits Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba. Color.
Fri., June 22 Breakthrough (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.).
John Chancellor interviews psychiatrists and medical researchers who are seeking new ways of dealing with mental illness.
Sun., June 24 Meet the Professor (ABC, 2:30-3 p.m.).
Dr. Jonas Salk will discuss new developments in the field of polio vaccines and his new institute for advanced biological studies.
Issues and Answers (ABC, 4-4:30 p.m.). Secretary of State Dean Rusk analyzes the outlook for war and peace in Europe and Southeast Asia.
Meet the Press (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guest is Dr. Edward R. Annis, official spokesman of the American Medical Association. Color.
The Ed Sullivan Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). The Great Stone Face celebrates his 14th anniversary on television with Steve Allen, Jack Benny, Red Buttons, Jerry Lewis, Phil Silvers and Kate Smith as guests.
TV Guide Award Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Dave Garroway as host, with Art Carney and Judy Holliday in sketches lampooning life with TV. Color.