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Maria Luisa Bemberg’s Camila (Channel 34 Sunday at 7 p.m.) is a lush story of star-crossed lovers, involving an aristocratic beauty (Susu Pecoraro) who eloped with a priest (Imanol Arias) in 1847, bringing down the wrath of the combined forces of the Gen. Rosas dictatorship, the church and a patriarchal society epitomized by Camila’s own father.

Cheryl Ladd stars in the new TV movie The Fulfillment of Mary Gray (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.) as a woman torn by her love for two brothers.

In another new TV movie, Swimsuit (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.), William Katt is an advertising man searching for the perfect model to represent a floundering swimsuit company.

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The two-part, four-hour Passion and Paradise (ABC Sunday and Tuesday at 9 p.m.) is based on the mysterious murder of Sir Harry Oakes (Rod Steiger) in the Bahamas in 1943.

Lawrence Kasdan’s enjoyable but elusive 1985 Western Silverado (Channel 13 Monday at 7:30 p.m.) is affectionate and caring for the form but a little too cooled out to be truly satisfying. It tells of four very different men who join forces to go after the bad guys; another problem is that despite the charismatic presence of Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner and Danny Glover (and others), no one emerges as a central, involving figure.

Original Sin (NBC Monday at 9 p.m.), a new TV movie, stars Ann Jillian as a Midwestern housewife whose small son is kidnaped--and her husband (Robert Desiderio) suspects that his estranged father (Charlton Heston), an underworld kingpin, is involved.

Gideon Oliver (ABC Monday at 9 p.m.), part of the new “ABC Mystery Movie” anthology, stars Louis Gossett Jr. as an anthropology professor and sometime sleuth.

Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (Channel 5 Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is the well-regarded 1981 TV movie about the ill-fated Canadian beauty (Jamie Lee Curtis).

Shelley Hack, Sela Ward, Stephanie Faracy and Brooke Adams star in Bridesmaids (CBS Tuesday at 9 p.m.), a new TV movie about four best friends reunited for a fifth friend’s wedding.

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Sidney Lumet’s absorbing 1982 film The Verdict (Channel 5 Wednesday at 8 p.m.) stars Paul Newman, who digs deep into himself to show us the rebirth of a decent man, a Boston attorney on the skids who lands a case never meant for trial. It is at once the engrossing story of Newman’s redemption, a crackerjack courtroom drama (in which Newman is pitted against James Mason’s suave, ruthless Establishment attorney) and a suspense piece set in a beautifully evoked Boston.

Canadian film maker Sandy Wilson’s semi-autobiographical My American Cousin (Channel 28 Wednesday at 9 p.m.) is a little gem, an endearing piece of nostalgia about how the visit of a glamorous 18-year-old relative (John Wildman) transformed a 12-year-old girl’s summer.

In Class of 1984 (Channel 5 Thursday at 8 p.m., again on Saturday at 8 p.m.), a scary piece of pop art, director Mark Lester takes that familiar exploitation subject, the contemporary urban American high school run amok, and prophesies a time when a teacher (Perry King) can be driven to pulling a gun to make his class pay attention.

Fort Apache, the Bronx (Channel 11 Thursday at 8 p.m.) stars Paul Newman--in another of his finest performances--as a veteran officer in one of the most dangerous precincts in America.

Clearly, the recent execution of serial killer Ted Bundy keyed the repeat of The Deliberate Stranger (Channel 13 Thursday at 8 p.m., completed Friday at 8 p.m.), a taut, suspenseful and scary drama starring Mark Harmon, who is chillingly believable as the remorseless, arrogant sociopath.

George Miller’s 1979 Mad Max (Channel 11 Friday at 8 p.m.) tells us how Max’s mythic saga began, as a highway cop defending his family against a biker gang. It is a crude but energetic Aussie tribute to American International Pictures, and it launched Mel Gibson an an international star.

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Mick Csaky’s Chasing a Rainbow: The Life of Josephine Baker (Channel 28 Friday at 10 p.m.) is as infectious as its subject, the legendary St. Louis-born entertainer who became the toast of Paris.

In the 1980 Penitentiary (Channel 13 Saturday at 10 p.m.), dynamic young film maker Jamaa Fanaka has taken one of the movies’ classic myths, the wrongly imprisoned man (Leon Isaac Kennedy) who fights for his freedom with his boxing gloves, and has made it a fresh and exciting experience.

The ratings checks on movies in the TV log are provided by the Tribune TV Log listings service.

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