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In the 1967 Bonnie and Clyde (KCOP...

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In the 1967 Bonnie and Clyde (KCOP Sunday at 6 p.m.) director Arthur Penn--from a script by Robert Benton and David Newman and with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in the title roles--beautifully re-creates the Depression-era Midwest. An American classic: poetically beautiful, madly comic and infernally appealing.

Death on the Nile (KCOP Sunday at 8 p.m.) is an elegant and suspenseful all-star 1978 Agatha Christie adaptation in which Peter Ustinov plays for the first time Hercule Poirot, who applies his famous little gray cells to solving a shipboard murder.

The 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (ABC Sunday at 8:30 p.m.) does a flawless, exciting job of capturing the fun of old Saturday matinee serials. Producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg have got it just right. They’ve brought a sophisticated, affectionately tongue-in-cheek tone to their virtuoso cliffhangers, lightning pace and a high-adventure plot. Harrison Ford and spunky leading lady Karen Allen couldn’t be better.

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Made only nine months after Carol Stuart’s murder, and less than nine months after the apparent suicide of her husband and presumed slayer, Charles Stuart, Good Night, Sweet Wife: Murder in Boston (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.) hit the airwaves in 1990. Although taut and well-acted, it shows its hastiness in too many ways in regard to what is a bizarre, disturbing, unresolved case in which Stuart asserted that a black assailant killed his wife.

Tremors (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.), a jocular, good-time 1990 monster movie with surprises up its sleeve and a comedy-Western sensibility, stars Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward, with a hilarious turn by country singer Reba McEntire.

The Adventures of Robin Hood (KTTV Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is the definitive 1938 Michael Curtiz version, a grand, timeless Technicolor swashbuckler with the perfectly cast Errol Flynn in the title role, Olivia de Havilland as Maid Marian and a terrific Warner Bros. supporting cast.

Bob Rafelson’s Five Easy Pieces (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.), one of the key films of the ‘70s, stars Jack Nicholson as a feckless, charming drifter who has forsaken his highly refined family to work as an oil field roughneck. Yet he yearns to return home, and the film becomes an odyssey of self-discovery, touching on the rootlessness and dissatisfaction of contemporary life.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (KCOP Saturday at 8 p.m.), the 1948 John Huston film from the B. Traven novel, is a classic, bitterly ironic fable of fate and human nature starring Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston and Tim Holt as a trio of gold prospectors in Mexico.

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