Sunday, May 5th TV listings for Turner Classic Movies Canada
Portnoy's Complaint (1972)
Philip Roth's neurotic Portnoy (Richard Benjamin) blames his mother for the hang-ups he acquired growing up in New Jersey.
Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)
Filmmaker Barbara Kopple documents Kentucky coal miners facing brutal opposition during a 1973 strike.
Black Fury (1935)
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
Dark Passage (1947)
A San Francisco art student (Lauren Bacall) hides a fugitive (Humphrey Bogart) recovering from underworld plastic surgery.
Julius Caesar (1953)
Shakespeare's Brutus (James Mason), Cassius (John Gielgud) and others plot the Roman ruler's death, but Mark Antony (Marlon Brando) avenges it.
Raintree County (1957)
A New Orleans belle (Elizabeth Taylor) lures a man (Montgomery Clift) away from his sweetheart (Eva Marie Saint) and into marriage during the Civil War.
Gypsy (1962)
One of a stage mother's (Rosalind Russell) daughters quits, and the other (Natalie Wood) becomes stripper Gypsy Rose Lee.
The Big Trail (1930)
A young pioneer (John Wayne) leads the first wagon train west on the Oregon Trail.
White Heat (1949)
A brave federal agent poses as a thug to infiltrate psychopathic hoodlum Cody Jarrett's gang of thieves.
The First Auto (1927)
A man who prefers horses for transportation feuds with his son, who takes to the newly invented automobile.
A River Called Titas (1973)
Various tragedies befall a mother and son in a Bengali fishing village.
Busses Roar (1942)
A sergeant (Richard Travis) saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields.