The Grifters (HBO Wednesday at 8 p.m.)...
The Grifters (HBO Wednesday at 8 p.m.) Director Stephen Frears and screenwriter Donald Westlake have tackled existentialist pulp novelist Jim Thompson’s icy consideration of mother love in the rackets and turned it diamond-hard and mesmerizing in this 1990 film with Anjelica Huston, John Cusack and Annette Bening.
Overland Stage Raiders (KDOC Thursday at 2 a.m.) Minor 1938 John Wayne Western notable as the legendary Louise Brooks’ final movie.
Dumbo (KTLA Saturday at 6 p.m.) This 1941 animated classic, a kind of “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Elephant,” is Walt Disney at his best: full of blazing emotional impact, wonderful charm and detail.
Terrific Humphrey Bogart triple-feature Saturday on TNT: Dead Reckoning (1947, at 5 p.m.), Sahara (1943, at 7:15) and In a Lonely Place (1950, at 9:15).
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