The Mackintosh Man (Channel 13 Sunday at...

The Mackintosh Man (Channel 13 Sunday at 8 p.m.) is a handsome, mellow 1973 John Huston film starring Paul Newman that unfortunately turns out to be one of those spy thrillers that is almost as mystifying at the end as at the beginning. Newman plays an Australian jewel thief maneuvered by British intelligence into going after a clever spy in a very high place.

The Terminator (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.) is a stylish, ultra-gory and ultimately empty science fiction adventure starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in the title role as a huge, deadly cyborg who has been transported from the future to stalk an unlikely prey, a scatterbrained waitress (Linda Hamilton). Directed by James Cameron, the 1984 box-office hit is ultimately as cynical and exploitative as it is dynamic and inventive.

Pale Rider (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.) is Clint Eastwood’s 1985 variation on “Shane,” a pleasant enough diversion but marred by the unlikely and queasy development that finds a pretty teen-age idolater (Sydney Penny) trying to seduce Eastwood’s grizzled Stranger, who’s come out of nowhere to help some gold prospectors in their fight with a ruthless hydraulic mining company.

Despite an uneven tone and a few too many dramatic contrivances, Divorce Wars: A Love Story (Channel 13 Monday at 8 p.m.) offers a grim, realistic look at how the end of a marriage can be the beginning of a vicious pitched battle of courtroom one-upmanship where everybody loses except the lawyers. Tom Selleck and Jane Curtin star as a nice couple who’ve simply drifted apart, turned into bitter, unyielding game players by legal machinations.

The new TV movie Danger Down Under (NBC Monday at 9 p.m.) is a drama set in Australia and starring Lee Majors.

Broken Angel (ABC Monday at 9 p.m.), another new TV movie, stars William Shatner as a man who searches desperately for his daughter, who vanishes in the wake of a brutal gang murder. Susan Blakely co-stars.

Everything the late Sam Peckinpah had to say about war in his 1977 Cross of Iron (Channel 11 Tuesday at 8 p.m.) had been better expressed by others and by Peckinpah himself. The result is a wearying, numbing spectacle of carnage, set in World War II on the Russian front, that tends to inure us to the violence it so graphically depicts. Once again Peckinpah tells us that men love war even as they hate it, while a wise and intrepid German corporal (James Coburn) clashes with his new battalion commander (Maximilian Schell), a Prussian aristocrat who cannot face the possibility of returning home without an Iron Cross.

Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot (Channel 13 Wednesday at 8 p.m., to be completed Thursday at 8 p.m.), a 1979 TV movie based on a Stephen King best seller about vampires on the loose in New England, is one of those stomach-churning, white-knuckle fright films that masterfully sets us up, shakes us around and leaves us jumping at our own shadows. David Soul and James Mason star.

The struggle to adjust and readjust after a broken marriage is the concern of Paul Mazursky’s fine 1978 film An Unmarried Woman (Channel 5 Thursday at 8 p.m.), which is very knowing about what it is like to be living in white, affluent, urban America. How a woman (Jill Clayburgh) copes with the totally unexpected news that her stockbroker husband (Michael Murphy) is leaving her is what the film is all about. However, Alan Bates is almost too good to be true as the romantic painter Clayburgh meets at just the right moment. What she does about him also strains credibility, but the film plays anyway because of the sharpness of Mazursky’s observations.

The Quiet Man (Channel 11 Thursday at 8 p.m.) is that wonderful 1952 John Ford film in which boxer John Wayne returns to his native Ireland to fall in love with the tempestuous (as always) Maureen O’Hara.

The Caine Mutiny (Channel 13 Friday at 8 p.m.) is the taut, all-star 1954 courtroom drama based on Herman Wouk’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a group of naval officers who rise up against the increasingly unstable Captain Queeg (Humphrey Bogart in a splendid, atypical performance).

Right from the start of Cutter’s Way (Channel 5 Saturday at 8 p.m.) director Ivan Passer establishes an ominous, languorous mood that reflects the precarious lives of three Santa Barbara drifters--Cutter (John Heard), a brilliant, boozy, badly wounded Vietnam vet; his best pal Bone (Jeff Bridges), a golden boy and compulsive womanizer who survives by hustling rich women; and Cutter’s wife Maureen (Lisa Eichhorn) who deals with her husband’s fate by drinking her vodka straight from the bottle. There’s a rape-murder case lurking in the background, and this stunning, unjustly neglected 1981 release unfolds much like a Ross MacDonald Lew Archer mystery as it becomes a singularly devastating indictment of the plight of the neglected Vietnam veteran.

Also airing at 8 p.m. Saturday (on Channel 13) is Irwin Allen’s The Towering Inferno, probably the best and most enjoyable of the disaster movies. Paul Newman and Steve McQueen star.

My Bodyguard (Channel 9 Saturday at 9 p.m.) marked a nifty 1980 directorial debut for actor Tony Bill. Set primarily in a Chicago high school, it centers on a new kid (Chris Makepeace), a shy victim who finds his real strengths the hard way. Matt Dillon is the swaggering bully and Adam Baldwin is the big, moody loner who Makepeace wants to be his bodyguard.

Selected evening cable fare: Back to the Future (HBO Sunday at 7, SelecTV Wednesday at 7, HBO Saturday at 8, Movie Channel at 9); Angel Heart (Cinemax Sunday at 9, Friday at 10); Apocalypse Now (Z Sunday at 9, Movie Channel Tuesday at 6:25); King Lear (1983) (Bravo Monday at 6:30); A Sunday in the Country (SelecTV Monday at 7); Lethal Weapon (Cinemax Monday at 8); Fiddler on the Roof (Movie Channel Monday at 9, Cinemax Wednesday at 8, Disney Channel Friday at 9); A Streetcar Named Desire (Z Tuesday at 7); Claire’s Knee (Bravo Tuesday at 8:30); A Passage to India (Disney Channel Tuesday at 9); Julia (Movie Channel Tuesday at 9); 1900, Part 1 (Z Tuesday at 9, completed Wednesday at 9); Autobiography of a Princess (Bravo Wednesday at 7); Roseland (Bravo Wednesday at 8); Paper Moon (Movie Channel Wednesday at 9); Amadeus (Movie Channel Thursday at 6); Blood and Sand (1922) (SelecTV Thursday at 7); The Lady Vanishes (Z Thursday at 7); Three Godfathers (Z Thursday at 9); The Assault (Bravo Friday at 8); The Fly (1986) (Movie Channel Friday at 9, Z Saturday at 7); Raising Arizona (Z Friday at 9, Movie Channel Saturday at 7); The 400 Blows (Bravo Saturday at 9).