Thursday, May 29th TV listings for Turner Classic Movies Canada
My Favorite Year (1982)
A rookie writer (Mark Linn-Baker) tries to keep an old swashbuckler (Peter O'Toole) sober for his boss's (Joseph Bologna) live TV comedy show in 1954.
It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
A talk-show staffer (Cyd Charisse) puts a fight manager (Gene Kelly), adman (Dan Dailey) and cook on TV 10 years after they parted as GIs.
Ginger and Fred (1986)
Has-been vaudeville dancers (Giulietta Masina, Marcello Mastroianni) emerge from retirement for a TV special.
A King in New York (1957)
The deposed king of Estrovia (Charles Chaplin) appears on television and must answer to the House Un-American Activities Committee.
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
A TV woman (Patricia Neal) turns Arkansas bum Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith) into a homespun media hero rotten with power.
Network (1976)
A TV executive (Faye Dunaway) boosts her ratings with a mad anchorman (Peter Finch) who thinks he speaks for God.
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
An outlaw (Henry Fonda) working for a railroad magnate fights a stranger (Charles Bronson) for a New Orleans widow's (Claudia Cardinale) land.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Flashbacks tell the story of a tenderfoot who rose to glory by gunning down the outlaw terrorizing his small town.
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
A bushwhacked prospector (Jason Robards) teams up with a prostitute (Stella Stevens) to turn a water hole into an oasis.
The Wild Bunch (1969)
An outlaw (William Holden) and his gang, on the run from the Mexican Army and bounty hunters, plot to rob a United States Army train.
Flight Commander (1930)
Two World War I British pilots (Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) fight the Germans their way, not their commander's (Neil Hamilton).
Today We Live (1933)
An English aristocrat (Joan Crawford) follows her torpedo-boating brother (Franchot Tone), his buddy and a U.S. pilot (Gary Cooper) in World War I.