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ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS. Based on valid speculation, this science-fiction saga imagines what might happen to a U.S. astronaut marooned on the red planet.
I'D RATHER BE RICH. In one of the season's liveliest comedy sleepers, Sandra Dee gets hilarious support from two wide-awake oldtimers, Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold, and a pair of newcomers, Robert Goulet and Andy Williams.
RHINO! is a brilliantly scenic safari that combines the usual African flora and fauna with highly entertaining melodrama and a sharp sense of fun.
SEDUCED AND ABANDONED. A maiden ventures down the primrose path and stumbles over the brutal Sicilian social code in Director Pietro Germi's savage tragicomedy, which is more biting but perhaps a bit less bubbly than his memorable Divorce—Italian Style.
GIRL WITH GREEN EYES. Britain's Rita Tushingham is cute, earnest, cunning, brassy and just about everything else that a movie actress should be in this warm ly witty account of an Irish colleen's romance with an aging author (Peter Finch).
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT. The Beatles hit their nimble stride in a smooth, fresh, surprisingly funny comedy that is the answer to a maiden's prayer, and then some.
THAT MAN FROM RIO. Jean-Paul Belmondo dodges poisoned darts and mad scientists in Philippe de Broca's (The Five-Day Lover) wildly hilarious parody of Hollywood's next-earthquake-please epic.
A SHOT IN THE DARK. As a bumbling police inspector, Peter Sellers pursues a seductive murder suspect (Elke Sommer) from corpse to corpse.
ZULU. A heroic band of British redcoats fights off hordes of proud native warriors in this bloody, bristling adventure film based on a historic battle at Rorke's Drift, Natal, in 1879.
BOOKS
Best Reading
CORRIDORS OF POWER, by C. P. Snow. Sir Charles stalks the British Establishment again. This time his quarry is a brilliant M.P. who hitches his considerable ambitions to an excellent cause but fails to reckon on the complex motivations of both friends and enemies.
GIDEON'S TRUMPET, by Anthony Lewis. A lively account of Clarence Earl Gideon, the jailhouse lawyer who changed the Jaw of the land, is used to animate a complex subject—the changing philosophy of the U.S. Supreme Court in the last quarter century.
THE GOLDEN BEES, by Theo Aronson. A busy book indeed: the gossipy story of all the Bonapartes and their clamorous pursuit of instant aristocracy.
BEGINNING AGAIN, 1911-1918, by Leonard Woolf. In the third volume of his memoirs, the author writes of the early years of his marriage to the young esthete and writer, Virginia Stephen. In loving but painful detail, he recounts Virginia Woolf's first flights into insanity years before her great novels were published.
THE ITALIAN GIRL, by Iris Murdoch. British Novelist Murdoch's eighth book has a message that, for current writers, is almost universal: better to have botched up life than not to have lived at all. But she says it all her own way, which means with wit, understatement and plain old sedition.