The Time Machine (Channel 9 Sunday at...
The Time Machine (Channel 9 Sunday at 1 p.m.): George Pal’s delightful 1960 film of the H. G. Wells’ Victorian sci-fi fantasy, with Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux. (2:00)
Duel (Channel 13 Sunday at 3 p.m.): The tense 1971 Steven Spielberg TV movie with Dennis Weaver as a businessman in a rented car inexplicably menaced by a diesel truck. (2:00)
Elena and Her Men (Bravo Sunday at midnight): Jean Renoir’s exquisite 1956 period romance with Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais and Mel Ferrer. (1:40)
The Ruggles of Red Gap (Channel 5 Wednesday at 1:30 a.m.): Classic ‘30s comedy, set in the Old West, in which Charles Laughton is a British butler won in a poker game by nouveau riche Charles Ruggles. (2:00)
North Dallas Forty (Channel 13 Friday at 3:30 a.m.): This acrid 1979 look at the world of professional football remains the most satisfying movie ever made by Nick Nolte, cast perfectly as a battered, aging gridiron star. (2:00)
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