Rude Boy (TMC Sunday at 11 p.m.):...
Rude Boy (TMC Sunday at 11 p.m.): Jack Hazan’s raw, scruffy 1980 semi-documentary film about an actual British working-class rebel who becomes a roadie with a punk rock band. (2:10)
Show Boat (1936) (TNT Monday at 9 a.m.): This is the classic James Whale version with Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Helen Morgan, Paul Robeson, Charles Winninger and Hattie McDaniel. (2:30)
The Conversation (HBO Monday at noon): Francis Coppola’s complex, challenging film about an electronic eavesdropper (Gene Hackman) who becomes the captive of his own dark skills. (2:00)
Jet Pilot (Channel 13 Tuesday at noon): The legendary, long unreleased Howard Hughes-Josef von Sternberg film maudit , a kind of Hell’s Angels updated to the Cold War, with John Wayne and Janet Leigh. (2:00)
Show People (Z Wednesday at 11:30 a.m.): King Vidor’s wonderful 1928 silent, offering a behind-the-scenes look at MGM at the height of its glory and allowing Marion Davies a rare opportunity to display her considerable comic gifts; William Randolph Hearst preferred to restrict her to tony costume pictures. (1:30)
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