CINEMA Psycho. Perhaps overly gruesome and directed with an unusually heavy hand, this Hitchcock thriller nevertheless adds up to an expertly Gothic nightmare.
The Story of Ruth. The Old Testament's four brief chapters are souped up, padded out and somehow made into a movie that is commendably unepic.
Man in a Cocked Hat. Gap-toothed, numbingly British Comic Terry-Thomas, aided by Peter Sellers and Thorley Walters, launches a satirical spitball at the British Foreign Office in this hilarious spoof of the lost art of statecraft.
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (French). What could have been a conventional Brief Encounter sort of romance is turned into an intensely moving, if occasionally slow, cinematic poem, largely thanks to its Hiroshima setting, where yesterday's nightmare mingles with the irresistible charms of newly growing life.
I'm AH Right, Jack. Peter Sellers with a crew of top comic accomplices romps through England's "farewell state" satirically rapping both labor and mangement.
The Apartment. Producer-Director Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot) scores again in this rousingly funny, pointed tale of a junior executive (Jack Lemmon) who permits his licentious bosses to use his Manhattan pad like a midtown motel. With Shirley MacLaine.
Bells Are Ringing. Judy Holliday's extraordinary, effervescent comic talents accomplish what Hollywood's $3,000,000 alone could not—they turn this mediocre musical into a solid success.
Dreams. Director Ingmar Bergman's bright satire pits cunning, confident women against despondent, demoralized men; the outcome is hardly surprising.
TELEVISION
Wed., July 6
Reckoning (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Rerun of Calculated Risk, starring John Cassavetes and E. G. Marshall. A pair of federal tax agents find their investigation of a business firm complicated by its devious president (Conrad Nagel), a chief executive (Warner Anderson) and his pretty daughter (Mona Freeman).
Thurs., July 7
CBS Reports (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Pundit Walter Lippmann makes his first television appearance in a broad, blunt discussion, with Interviewer Howard K. Smith, of Presidents, politics and peeves.
Wrangler (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Tennessee Ernie Ford's summer replacement is a nomadic cowpoke named Pitcairn (Jason Evers).
Adventure Theater (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Thomas Mitchell plays a henpecked bank teller who embezzles his wife's grocery budget to finance his flight to a palm-studded Pacific paradise. First of a new summer series.
Fri., July 8
Moment of Fear (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). In Conjure Wife, first installment of a live suspense series, three overly ambitious wives resort to the supernatural to further their husbands' lagging careers.
Sat., July 9
Miss Universe Pageant (CBS, 10:30 p.m. to midnight). Legs, legs, legs in Miami Beach, watched by Arthur Godfrey.
Sun., July 10
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 12:30-1 p.m.). In "The Desert World," Robert Neathery, director of Philadelphia's Franklin Museum, discusses life on Mars.
Music on Ice (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Singer Johnny Desmond and f figure-skating friends in a low-temperature variety show.
Mon., July 11