The Magnificent Ambersons (Z Sunday at 12:30...
The Magnificent Ambersons (Z Sunday at 12:30 p.m.): Orson Welles’ poignant film from Booth Takrkington’s novel about a family of small-town aristocrats. (1:30)
The Offence (Channel 7 Monday at 12:15 a.m.): A splendid, unjustly neglected 1973 British film in which Sean Connery, at his very best under director Sidney Lumet, plays a veteran police sergeant, haunted by years of contact with terrible crimes, on the brink of a total breakdown. (2:10)
Beat the Devil (Channel 13 Tuesday at noon): John Huston’s 1954 maverick mischief, with Humphrey Bogart and Gina Lollobrigida as man and wife sharing a scenic Italian town with a gang of seedy ruffians led by Robert Morley and Peter Lorre. Also featured: a peroxided Jennifer Jones. (2:00)
The Little Foxes (Channel 11 Thursday at 2:30 a.m.): William Wyler’s superb 1941 film of the Lillian Hellman play, starring Bette Davis, is at once timeless and timelier than ever in its indictment of greed.
The Leopard Man (AMC Friday at 12:15 a.m.): One of the celebrated Val Lewton horror pictures of the ‘40s, directed by Jacques Tourneur from a Cornell Woolrich story about a mysterious series of murders in a New Mexico town and starring Dennis O’Keefe. (1:15)
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