The Rosary Murders (KTTV Tuesday at 1:30...

The Rosary Murders (KTTV Tuesday at 1:30 a.m.) is an engrossing 1987 mystery, directed by Fred Walton and adapted by Elmore Leonard from the William Kienzle novel. Donald Sutherland plays a Detroit priest on the track of a serial murder while defying his blunt, by-the-book superior (Charles Durning).

Burn! (TNT Tuesday at 11:15 p.m.), Gillo Pontecorvo’s remarkable 1970 epic, stars Marlon Brando as a British envoy, a cynic who emerges as a tragic figure, to a Caribbean island, where he is to foment a revolution to break the foreign sugar monopoly. A thinking man’s blockbuster, it is a blunt indictment of the white man’s exploitation of the black man.

Carrie (Bravo Thursday at midnight), William Wyler’s 1952 film of Theodore Dreiser’s “Sister Carrie,” is unjustly neglected among Wyler’s fine literary adaptations. It emerges as a period-perfect, ill-fated romance in which Laurence Olivier’s successful, middle-aged Chicago restaurateur throws his life away for Jennifer Jones’ naive but ambitious country girl.

The Westerner (AMC Thursday at 9 a.m.; again at 4 p.m.) offers Gary Cooper as the star of this 1940 William Wyler film, a saga of land wars. But its unforgettable presence is Walter Brennan, who won one of his three supporting Oscars as ornery, colorful Judge Roy Bean.