Four-Star Films : ‘Twentieth Century’
Director Howard Hawks, writers Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur--an unbearable combination--take us aboard the Twentieth Century Limited back in 1934 for one of those terrific movie train rides. We share it here with a megalomaniacal Broadway producer (John Barrymore, pictured with Carole Lombard), his sexy Hollywood Galatea (Lombard) and assorted zanies, jerks, crackpots and cynics. First class, all the way. (Cinemax Wednesday at 9:30 a.m.).
Other selected four-star films airing this week:
All About Eve / AMC, Sunday, 4:35 p.m.
In Cold Blood / Showtime, early Tuesday, 3:20 a.m.
The Conformist / Bravo, Tuesday, 5 and 11 p.m.
Going My Way / AMC, early Wednesday, 6:40 a.m.
Under the Volcano / A&E;, early Friday, 2 a.m.
The Palm Beach Story / AMC, Friday, 12:30 p.m.
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