TV Schedule for ScreenPix: Action

The Purple Plain (1954)

An RAF pilot (Gregory Peck) crash-lands with his navigator and another officer in World War II Burma.

Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)

Two rivals (Jeff Chandler, Jack Palance) from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin.

Beachhead (1954)

Marines (Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy) work with a planter's daughter (Mary Murphy) who knows about Japanese minefields in the Solomon Islands.

Pork Chop Hill (1959)

A lieutenant (Gregory Peck) is ordered to take an inconsequential hill during the Korean War truce talks.

Kings Go Forth (1958)

An Army lieutenant (Frank Sinatra) and sergeant (Tony Curtis) become rivals for the daughter (Natalie Wood) of a mixed marriage in 1944 France.

The One That Got Away (1996)

Iraqi forces discover a patrol of British soldiers (Paul McGann, David Morrissey, Steven Waddington) behind enemy lines in the Gulf War.

Lady of Vengeance (1957)

A U.S. publisher (Dennis O'Keefe) in London hires a killer (Anton Diffring) to avenge the death of his ward.

The Wild Party (1956)

An ex-football brute (Anthony Quinn) and his beatnik gang take a rich girl (Carol Ohmart) and her boyfriend hostage (Arthur Franz) at a jazz joint.

Shield for Murder (1954)

A police detective (Edmond O'Brien) kills a bookie, robs him and hides the loot at his suburban dream house.

Crime Against Joe (1956)

Joe, an unemployed artist living with his mother, is suspected of murdering bar singer Irene Crescent during a drinking binge.

Storm Fear (1956)

A wounded bank robber (Cornel Wilde) hides with his gang at his brother (Dan Duryea) and sister-in-law's (Jean Wallace) farm in a snowstorm.

Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943)

A young woman opens her grandfather's will when she turns 21, and someone starts murdering the heirs.

Counterplot (1959)

A man (Forrest Tucker) flees from a bum rap to Puerto Rico and hides with a boy until he can clear himself.

Vice Squad (1953)

A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.

Bailout at 43,000 (1957)

An Air Force major resents being relieved from making the first dangerous test of a B-47 automatic ejection seat.

Street of Sinners (1957)

A police rookie (George Montgomery) has trouble after confronting a well-connected bar owner (Nehemiah Persoff) on his first day.

Cloudburst (1951)

A former British commando (Robert Preston) tracks down the occupants of a hit-and-run car that killed his wife (Elizabeth Sellars).

Hidden Fear (1957)

A U.S. lawman (John Payne) busts Copenhagen counterfeiters to help his sister, falsely accused of murder.