Peter Sellers is twice as funny as anyone else currently on view, not entirely because his films arrive here two at a time. The latest batch: The Millionairess, Shaw's old joke rejiggered, with Sellers as the Oriental medic and Sophia Loren as the moneypot who tries to tempt him; and Two-Way Stretch, in which the comedian plays a jowly brigand whose plot to steal £2,000,000 is goofily thickened because he is already in the nick for another job.
Circle of Deception. An ingenious spy thriller, set in pre-D-day France, that raises some subtle and uncomfortable questions of political morality.
Facts of Life. A satirical, sometimes wonderfully nutty comedy of manners—and the funniest U.S. film since The Apartment—casts Bob Hope as a middleclass, middle-aged philanderer fumbling after Lucille Ball, and perhaps after the meaning of marriage.
Where the Boys Are. A featherweight but fun-filled look at the springtime Florida Flip of the book-bashed, sun-starved North American undergraduate.
The Wackiest Ship in the Army. A run-of-the-main, sailor-suit farce that would have gone down with the script without the presence of brilliant Comedian Jack Lemmon.
Other notable current attractions: Ballad of a Soldier, Make Mine Mink, The Angry Silence and Tunes of Glory.
TELEVISION
Tues., Feb. 7
The Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* An adaptation of the Jean Anouilh comedy, Time Remembered, with Dame Edith Evans, in her American TV debut, and Christopher Plummer. Color.
Story of Love (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Jane Fonda in Somerset Maugham's A String of Beads. Color.
Thurs., Feb. 9
"Color Day, U.S.A."— by NBC decree. From Continental Classroom (6-7 a.m. local time) to The Jack Paar Show (11:15 p.m.-l a.m., E.S.T.), a record 90% of the network's offerings will be in color.
The Purex Special for Women (NBC, 4-5 pm.). The fourth part of the enterprising series surveys the problem of "The Single Woman." Color.
Remember How Great (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The Tin Pan Alley hits of the past three decades aired by Andy Williams, Connie Francis and Harry James, among others. Host: Jack Benny. Color.
Gunslinger (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Still wal lowing in the Old Frontier, TV premieres a series written by Charles Marquis War ren, creator of Gunsmoke and Rawhide.
Sat., Feb. 11
Professional Basketball (NBC, 2-4:30 p.m.). Cincinnati v. St. Louis.
The Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). "Should the Federal Government directly subsidize the arts?" Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith is pro, Harper's Managing Editor Russell Lynes con.
Sun. Feb. 12
Sunday Sports Spectacular (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). "Olympiad 1960" reviews both the winter and summer games.
The New York Philharmonic Young People's Concert (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). An all-Copland program.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "The College Panic," a canvass of harassed admissions directors, nervous parents and students.
Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Disney displays canines from around the world.
General Electric Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Ernest Borgnine and Zsa Zsa Gabor in Budd Schulberg's Hollywood piece, "The Legend That Walks Like a Man."