CINEMA
While a number of domestic comedies are on view, ranging from fair to sad the field at the moment is dominated by foreign films, most of them grim
IN ITALIAN: Violent Summer is an old wave film about a short, sensuous, foredoomed affair played out in Fascist Italy In Two Women, mother (Sophia Loren) and daughter (Eleonora Brown) prove that in World War II Italy, only those who suffer can love. La Dolce Vita is a sprawling, formless masterpiece of modern Rome's spiritual depravity and sexual excess, and L'Avventura is another endless but masterly dissection of the malignant tedium that grips contemporary Italy's empty-souled profligates.
IN POLISH: Ashes jaid Diamonds is a powerful and ironic farewell to arms, set Poland in the days just after the Nazi surrender. In Kanal, a group of resistance fighters, trapped in the sewers of German-occupied Warsaw, struggle to their doom A welcome break in the lowering skv comes with Eve Wants to Sleep, a zany cops-and-robbers farce, whose cops are Keystone and whose badmen are clearly friends of Mack the Knife.
IN U.S. MOVIES: the accents are fairly grim, too. The plot of The Young Savages is straight from Hollywood's pasteboard jungle, but the documentary scenes of punks and finks roaming through Manhattan's tenement-glutted, garbage-strewn juvenile jungle carry the authority of the headlines. In The Secret Ways, Richard Widmark is the hero on the run, and the Communists are the heavies.
TELEVISION
Wed., June 21
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS 10-11 p.m.).* The Story of Gordon Seagrave, M.D., the "Burma Surgeon," told again with films made on location in Namhkam.
Thurs., June 22
Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS 7:30-8:30 p.m.). An anthology of Australian athletics, including shark fishing, crocodile hunting surfboard racing, log splitting, sheep shearing, Australian football, jalopy racing—everything but billy-bonging
Bell & Howell Close-Up (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The program documents the daily lives of two U.S. diplomats, one in Chile, the other in East Pakistan, attempting to redress the notion that the Foreign Service is a gay and easy life: the cookies they push are sometimes hardtack.
Fri., June 23
Person to Person (CBS, 10:30-11 pm ) Visits to the homes of three of Bing Crosby's sons—Phillip, Dennis and Lindsay.
Sat., June 24
ABC's Wide World of Sports (ABC 5-7 p.m.). National A.A.U. track and field championships at Randalls Island, NY
The Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10-30 p.m.). Debate subject: "How Free Should the Press Be?" Among participants: Aleksei Adzhubei, son-in-law of Soviet Premier Khrushchev and editor of Izvestia, Pierre
Salinger, U.S. presidential press secretary and Reporter Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times.
Sun., June 25
Look Up and Live (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). The Marquette University Players in Part IV of The Coventry Mystery Cycle, a series of medieval miracle plays. This program covers the Agony in the Garden, the Resurrection and the Ascension, and the Last Judgment.
Eichmann on Trial (ABC, 4-4:30 p.m.). Summary of last week's developments.
Issues and Answers (ABC, 4:30-5 p.m.). Interviewed: Postmaster General J. Edward Day.