The Playboy of the Western World (Channel...
The Playboy of the Western World (Channel 28 Sunday at 2 p.m.): Brian Desmond Hurst’s respected 1962 film of the J.M. Synge satire stars Gary Raymond and Sio-bhan McKenna. (2:00)
Le Jour Se Leve (Bravo Sunday at 5 p.m.): The 1939 Marcel Carne-Jacques Prevert classic that helped establish Jean Gabin with American audiences. Released theatrically as “Daybreak.” (1:30)
Rain (A&E; Wednesday at 7 a.m.): Joan Crawford accepted the verdict of the critics and the public that she was a lousy Sadie Thompson in Lewis Milestone’s 1932 version of the steamy Somerset Maugham tale, but the film is terrific and so is Crawford’s Sadie, immensely endearing beneath a tough, vulgar exterior. (2:00)
Mean Streets (Channel 13 Friday at 3:30 a.m.): With its strong evocation of the stifling ethnic atmosphere of life in Manhattan’s Little Italy, Martin Scorsese’s 1973 film shows how difficult it is for young Italian-Americans to escape their ghettoized existence, trapped as they are by traditions riddled with destructive contradictions and hypocrisies. Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro star. (2:00)
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