Thursday, March 5th TV listings for Turner Classic Movies USA
Of Mice and Men (1939)
Based on John Steinbeck's novel about the relationship between a migrant worker and his slow-witted friend.
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Dickens' Madame Defarge knits, the Bastille falls, and a London lawyer (Ronald Colman) makes a great sacrifice for love.
Great Expectations (1946)
Dickens' orphan Pip (John Mills) goes to London to become a gentleman, thanks to his anonymous benefactor.
Tom Jones (1963)
Henry Fielding's lusty foundling hero (Albert Finney) meets a series of attractive women in 18th-century England.
Madame Bovary (1949)
A woman's unquenchable thirst for romance ultimately proves to be her undoing. Based on Gustave Flaubert's novel.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Corrupted by a lord (George Sanders), Oscar Wilde's London aristocrat (Hurd Hatfield) stays young, but his portrait begins to age.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
A country bumpkin faces ridicule and corruption when he takes his idealistic views to the nation's capital.
The Great McGinty (1940)
A dimwitted drifter finds his values changing after he is manipulated into becoming a successful public official.
Seven Days in May (1964)
An aide (Kirk Douglas) discovers his general's (Burt Lancaster) Pentagon plot and tells the president (Fredric March).
The Fog of War (2003)
Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara discusses military issues and the Vietnam War with filmmaker Errol Morris.
The Candidate (1972)
An image maker (Peter Boyle) grooms the son (Robert Redford) of a political boss (Melvyn Douglas) for a token bid in a U.S. Senate race.
Immortal Love (1961)
A woman marries an impaired man against her will and problems soon develop when her estranged lover returns.
Yojimbo (1961)
A free-lance samurai (Toshirô Mifune) works both sides of the street in a village split by warring merchants.