War Hunt, set in war-torn Korea, is about a war lover, a man for whom war is not hell but home. How this leads to the corruption of an innocent Korean boy is only one level of the strata of meanings explored in this low-budget film made with high intelligence and high art.
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man. There is nostalgically charming Americana in this reel-life pastiche fashioned from Hemingway's autobiographical Nick Adams stories. Paul Newman's portrayal of a punch-drunk old fighter is a memorable acting coup.
Strangers in the City is a brilliantly abrasive social shocker about a Puerto Rican family living in the rat-infested lower depths of Manhattan's Spanish Harlem. Rick Carrier's script, cast and camera work have a harsh-grained honesty.
Bird Man of Alcatraz. One of the strangest cases in U.S. penal history is that of Robert F. Stroud who spent 43 years in solitary confinement. As the convict murderer who became a bird expert behind bars, Burt Lancaster gives the finest performance of his career.
Ride the High Country and Lonely Are the Brave are off-the-beaten-trail westerns about uncommonly untamed men who refuse to traffic with, or truckle to, a mechanized civilization. The gallant losers include Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott (Country) and Kirk Douglas (Brave).
The Concrete Jungle. A saxophoney blues mocks and mourns the rise and fall of the criminal hero in this jagged, jazzy British crime thriller.
Boccaccio '70 is an erotic Italian film, though scarcely a linear descendant of Boccaccio (1313-1375). Curvilinear Stars Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and Sophia Loren lose nothing in translation.
The Notorious Landlady is Kim Novak, and her tenant, Jack Lemmon, does not ask for anything more until Scotland Yard prods him into some horribly funny discoveries.
Lolita. Any resemblance between this film and the novel is accidental and inconsequential. The partners in this esthetic crime include Author-Scripter Nabokov, Director Stanley Kubrick and Co-Leads James Mason and Sue Lyon. Peter Sellers saves some scenes, and might have saved the movie if he had been cast as Humbert.
TELEVISION
Wed., Aug. 8 Howard K. Smith: News and Comment (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* Interpretive comments on the week's events.
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Art works by a chimpanzee, children, and three French modernists. Repeat.
Thurs., Aug. 9 Accent (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). "The Gambling Americans," a visit to Reno's casinos.
The Lively Ones (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Host Vic Damone and guests Stan Kenton, Shorty Rogers, Peter Nero and the New Christy Minstrels.
CBS Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Margaret Sanger and others discuss birth control and its place in the law and society.
Fri., Aug. 10 Eyewitness (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). The week's top news story.
Sat, Aug. 11 Invitation to Paris (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Maurice Chevalier, Fernandel, Patachou, Jacqueline Francois and Jean Sablon are the tour guides on this repeat of a springtime visit to Paris.
Sun., Aug. 12 Look Up and Live (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). "Evensong: A Jazz Liturgy," final event of an international festival from Washington, D.C.'s Church of the Epiphany.