The opening two-thirds of the 1990 TV...

The opening two-thirds of the 1990 TV movie The Incident (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.) are intricately plotted and charged with edgy intrigue, but the last third dissipates all suspense generated by director Joseph Sargent. During World War II an elderly doctor has been clubbed to death on the edge of a small Colorado town, and one of the German soldiers imprisoned there as a POW is charged with murder. Walter Matthau stars as the soldier’s reluctant attorney.

The absorbing 1991 TV movie White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.), starring Loni Anderson in the title role, presents the popular comedienne of the 1930s as an archetypal ill-fated Hollywood blonde--sexy, talented and beautiful.

Robin Williams is hilarious in the excruciatingly funny 1990 Cadillac Man (ABC Monday at 9 p.m.), in which he plays a hapless car salesman already up to his ears in trouble when he has to make the deal of a lifetime: persuade a cuckolded, crazed Tim Robbins into dropping his gun and ending a reign of terror at a car dealership.

The Krays (KCOP Thursday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 6 p.m.), Peter Medak’s 1990 film of Britain’s violent and notorious twin gangsters and nightclub proprietors, is a bit literal in its Freudianisms and skimps on the brothers’ enduring notoriety in Britain--but it is engrossing all the same. The twins are played with hypnotic creepiness by Spandau Ballet brothers Martin and Gary Kemp. With Billie Whitelaw as their overly adoring mother.

The 1987 Weapons of the Spirit (KCOP Saturday at 8 p.m.) is a different kind of Holocaust documentary, a thorough and heartwarming probe by Pierre Sauvage of how his birthplace, a small Christian village in south-central France, became a refuge for 5,000 Jews, including the filmmakers’ parents, during World War II. The answer lies in the the community’s enduring Huguenot heritage with its memories of religious persecution and the leadership of its courageous, ecumenical-spirited pastor. The result is a rare and stirring illustration of the power of religion to unite rather than divide people.

Citizen Cohn (KABC Saturday at 11:30 p.m.) is a fascinating yet somehow lacking 1992 HBO production on the life of the late Roy Cohn. James Wood is stunning in his unsparing, kick-butt depiction of a dangerous man who, by many accounts, was a dishonest, ruthless poseur who saw power as a pickax to be used for decapitation. Beyond the film’s McCarthy period, however, the film has intermittent lapses in energy and focus.