Saturday, May 2nd TV listings for Turner Classic Movies Canada
Mark of the Vampire (1935)
An elderly criminologist devises a unique scheme to unmask the killer behind a series of gruesome murders.
Holt of the Secret Service Afire Afloat
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959)
An English colonel's daughter (Joanna Barnes) meets a lord (Denny Miller) of the jungle who makes her his mate.
Looney Tunes Pigs in a Polka
The wolf chases down three little pigs.
The Opposite Sex (1956)
Catty Park Avenue women teach a friend (June Allyson) how to win her husband back from a sexpot (Joan Collins).
Oliver Twist (1948)
Dickens' London waif (John Howard Davies) is pressed into Fagin's (Alec Guinness) street gang led by bully Bill Sikes (Robert Newton) and the Artful Dodger.
Oh, God! (1977)
God comes to Earth as an elderly man (George Burns) with a twinkle and picks a supermarket produce manager (John Denver) to spread his word.
Life Achievement Award: 50th Anniversary Special
Celebrating 50 years of the AFI Life Achievement Award with archival clips and interviews.
Fat City (1972)
A young fighter (Jeff Bridges) inspires a boozing ex-boxer (Stacy Keach) working as a fruit picker to try a comeback.
Inside Moves (1980)
A man (John Savage) paralyzed by a suicide attempt meets an injured basketball player (David Morse) and other regulars at a bar.
Drunken Angel (1948)
Akira Kurosawa's postwar allegory focusing on an alcoholic doctor's determination to cure a gangster of tuberculosis.
Crossing Delancey (1988)
A Manhattan single (Amy Irving) meets a man (Peter Riegert) through her Jewish grandmother's (Reizl Bozyk) matchmaker.
Metropolitan (1990)
A West Side loner gets a taste of high society when he becomes involved with a group of privileged young Manhattanites.
Hercules, Samson and Ulysses (1965)
Hercules (Kirk Morris) and Samson (Richard Lloyd) fight each other, then team up with Ulysses (Enzo Cerusico) against a tyrant.
Helen of Troy (1955)
Menelaus and Agamemnon lead their Greek hordes against peaceful Troy to recapture the kidnapped queen (Rossana Podesta).