Sam Peckinpah’s brilliant, controversial 1969 commentary on...

Sam Peckinpah’s brilliant, controversial 1969 commentary on violence, The Wild Bunch (KCOP Sunday at 8 p.m.; TBS Monday at 7:20 p.m.) finds William Holden leading a bunch of border ruffians operating in South Texas and Mexico, circa 1913.

Robert De Niro as a hard-case bounty hunter and Charles Grodin as a soft-shelled embezzler are the stars of the often murderously funny 1988 chase comedy, Midnight Run (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.), a kind of crime movie “Odd Couple.”

All the Right Moves (KTTV Monday at 8 p.m.) is a fine, largely overlooked 1983 Tom Cruise movie that casts him as a blue-collar high school senior who sees football as the only way out of his dying hometown.

The satiric idea behind the 1990 Crazy People (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.), which stars Dudley Moore as an ad executive who goes on a “truth in advertising” binge and lands in the loony bin, deserves a better movie; it’s an example of ad-promo hard-sell disguised as soft soap, promoting sentimentality as strenuously as the “heartfelt” commercials they’re satirizing.

The 1985 Code of Silence (KCOP Thursday at 8 p.m.) is one of the better Chuck Norris action pictures, a fast, racy cop thriller with too much plot yet reminiscent of “The French Connection” and “Dirty Harry” in its best moments.

The 1985 remake of King Solomon’s Mines (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.) is a disappointing attempt to capture the breezy comic-book aura of more recent adventure yarns--most obviously “Raiders of the Lost Ark”--but the result is mainly camp. Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone star.

An agonizingly dull sequel, Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold, also with Chamberlain and Stone, airs Friday on KTLA at 8 p.m.

The slapdash 1980 Caddyshack (KCOP Saturday at 6 p.m.) stars Michael O’Keefe as a young caddy at a Midwestern country club who is desperate to win a college scholarship but is faced with coping with its oddball members (Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, etc.) and the club’s crazy groundskeeper (Bill Murray). A nifty premise done in by too much silliness and condescension.

The Third Man (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.) is a witty, stylish, vastly entertaining Carol Reed-Graham Greene 1949 film noir set in postwar Vienna starring Joseph Cotten as a brash, naive American ensnared by danger and intrigue. With Alida Valli, Trevor Howard and, of course, Orson Welles as the slippery Harry Lime.