The War Wagon (KTLA Thursday at 8...

The War Wagon (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.), a rollicking 1967 Burt Kennedy work, stars John Wayne and features an ingeniously planned heist plot.

The 1975 Rooster Cogburn (KTLA Friday at 8 p.m.) isn’t exactly the best film John Wayne or Katharine Hepburn ever made, but it is occasionally enjoyable because it is their only teaming. The plot finds Wayne reprising his crusty Oscar-winning ‘True Grit” deputy marshal, riding off to catch the bad guys who murdered the minister father of spinster Hepburn (who seems to be reprising her “African Queen” role).

Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, who played off each other so well in “Silver Streak,” were reunited in the less effective, though highly popular, 1980 Stir Crazy (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.). This venture finds them, through an elaborate confusion of identities, in prison doing 125 years each for bank robbery. Sidney Poitier’s good-natured direction, however, can’t disguise the thin material.

Peter Hyams’ quietly entertaining 1981 Outland (KTLA Saturday at 6 p.m.) is “High Noon” in outer space and affords Sean Connery with one of his strongest portrayals. He plays a federal marshal who’s pulled a year’s tour of duty at a mining colony on a volcanic moon of Jupiter. The marshal is there only two weeks when he becomes puzzled by a series of deaths, all of them apparent suicides.

In the amiable but overly long and complicated 1970 Chisum (KCOP Saturday at 8 p.m.), John Wayne stars as a real-life pioneering cattleman who takes on crafty bad guy Forrest Tucker.

Kon Ichikawa’s 1956 The Burmese Harp (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.) is one of the great anti-war films, set in the final days of World War II in Burma, where a young Japanese soldier, having embraced Buddhism, would rather bury the dead than return home.

One of the most famous Japanese pictures of the ‘60s, Hiroshi Teshigahara’s Woman in the Dunes (KCET Saturday at 11 p.m.) is a highly stylized and darkly amusing allegory, eerie and erotic, about an entomologist trapped in a sand dune by a beautiful, insinuating woman.

Assault on Precinct 13 (KABC Saturday at 11:30 p.m.) is John Carpenter’s taut and well-acted, low-budget 1976 police drama. A young policeman (Austin Stoker) is put in charge of a nearly deserted L.A. police station in the process of moving to another location when it finds itself under siege by an interracial gang of cutthroats and escaped convicts. Darin Joston is impressive as an heroic convict; so is Stoker as the unflappable cop.