Starring Peter Ustinov, Sandra Dee, John Gavin, Akim Tamiroff

The small state of Concordia finds itself at the centre of an international dispute between America and Russia. Peter Ustinov plays The General, Concordia's delegate to the UN, who resolves the crisis through a romantic and diplomatic strategy.
(This Week's Films: p 14)

The Mole and the Motor Car
'If you can't beat them, join them,' thinks the Mole as he becomes part of the world on wheels.

Fine Feathers
Two birds decide that they are tired of their feathers and try some new clothes with surprising results.

An NFBC film

The closing stages

David Holmes reviews week-by-week the moves made by the politicians and examines the part played by government in the lives of us all.

Four films in which Edwin Mullins looks at Art - the people who collect it the people who create it and the people who cash in

What gives a work of art its credit? How do you measure the quality of a Raphael or a Henry Moore? Who makes reputations in the art world? The critics? Dealers? The collectors themselves? And what does reputation mean to the artist himself?
With Henry Moore, OM, Sir Charles Wheeler, PPRA, H.S. Ede, Geoffrey Agnew, Leslie Waddington, Alistair MacAlpine

by Guy de Maupassant
Dramatised in five parts by Robert Muller

Georges Duroy is now employed on La Vie Francaise and his first article has appeared.

A series of three film reports by Trevor Philpott

These days, with spacemen, cowboys, and secret agents crowding into the sitting-room every night, the travelling circus fights against the odds. But there are still some youngsters to whom it's the most exciting world of all.

This film features two oddly paired young men who decided to build their own circus and take it on the road. It's a story of a new-born road show struggling to stay alive on faith, stubbornness and sweat. It may not be the Greatest Show on Earth-but it's a sort of miracle all the same.
(Cover story: page 13)

(Another entertainer, May Ronaldson, recalls travelling the fairgrounds in Times Remembered: Thursday 8.0 pm)

Starring Kenneth Williams and The Young Generation
Guest artists Alice and Ellen Kessler, Georges Schlick
Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra

(Kenneth Williams is in "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" at the Cambridge Theatre, London; The Young Generation are in "Meet Me in London" at the Adelphi Theatre: Alice and Ellen Kessler are in cabaret at the Savoy Hotel; Georges Schlick is at Churchill's Club, Bond Street)

Wheels to words...
Maurice Levinson, London taxi-driver, author and journalist looks back at his week.

by Frank O'Connor
T.P. McKenna reads First Confession

It only stood to reason that a lad confessing for the first time would have more to tell than people that went every week. The crimes of a lifetime, as the priest said.
'Father,' I said, feeling I might as well get it all off my chest at once, 'I had it all arranged to kill my grandmother.'

Starring Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien, Peggy Lee
with Andy Devine, Lee Marvin, Ella Fitzgerald

Jack Webb of 'Dragnet' fame, is both star and director of this impeccable re-creation of the 20s, complete with bootlegging, speakeasies and jazz. Ella Fitzgerald sings the specially composed title song and Peggy Lee as an alcoholic night-club singer gives a moving performance of 'He needs me' and 'Sing a rainbow.'
(This Week's Films: page 14)