A Kind of Loving (Bravo Sunday at...
A Kind of Loving (Bravo Sunday at 5 p.m.): Splendid early (1962) John Schlesinger film starring Alan Bates and June Ritchie as a luckless working-class couple. (2:00)
The Sea of Grass (TNT Monday at 5 p.m.): The most unusual of the nine Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn movies, in which Hepburn plays a fragile woman crushed by the dominating Tracy, a feudal New Mexico rancher. Elia Kazan directed. (2:40)
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (Channel 13 Tuesday at 1:30 a.m.): Budd Boetticher’s terse, stylish gangster movie, with Ray Danton in the title role. (2:00)
Sullivan’s Travels (Channel 5 Wednesday at 1:30 a.m.): The classic Preston Sturges satire in which Joel McCrea plays a Hollywood director who poses as a bum to get a fresh perspective on life. (2:00)
The Story of Esther Costello (Cinemax Thursday at 7 a.m.): One of Joan Crawford’s best later films in which she plays a misguided rich American woman intent on helping a deaf and blind English girl. (2:00)
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