The Godfather, Part III (CBS Sunday at...

The Godfather, Part III (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m., completed Tuesday at 9 p.m.) concludes one of the extraordinary achievements of the American cinema--Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo’s three-film saga of the Corleone family, aristocrats of the Mafia--is flawed by time pressures and casting problems that load it it down with dubious scenes and acting. But it’s still a major work, artistically audacious in ways most movies don’t even attempt with unforgettable performances by aging don Al Pacino and rising young maniac Andy Garcia. Not the perfect capstone we might have wanted, it’s still a sweeping, tragic tale of ambition, compromise, betrayal, murder.

Chasers (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.) combines raucous humor and unflagging zest with considerable wit and sophistication as Yeoman Second-Class Eddie Devane (William McNamara), at the Charleston, S.C., naval base, finds himself assigned to Chief Petty Officer Rock Reilly (Tom Berenger) to drive to the marine brig at Camp Lejeune, N.C., and transport a prisoner back to Charleston. As mismatched as they are, they’re both floored when their prisoner, a seaman second-class, turns out to be beautiful and sexy Toni Johnson (Erika Eleniak).

The bounding teen idols in the not-so-hot latest retelling of The Three Musketeers (Fox Tuesday at 8 p.m.) just barely fit into the 1993 film’s overstuffed 17th-century decor. Kiefer Sutherland’s Athos, Chris O’Donnell’s D’Artagnan, Charlie Sheen’s Aramis and Oliver Platt’s portly Porthos are an incongruous quartet: They’re leaping and wenching and fencing, but they’re also winking at the audience.

Class Action’s (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.) undeniable fun comes from watching lawyers Gene Hackman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio tangle, as a strained father and daughter who find themselves on opposite sides of a class-action suit. Director Michael Apted and his fellow artists have, however, done something special in showing how political convictions carry through to every detail of daily living, from friends and business associates to where and how one lives.

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (ABC Saturday at 9 p.m.) at its best is a bright, nasty psychological 1992 thriller with a joker up its sleeve. As a demented nanny, Rebecca De Mornay has a perfect prettiness. So does the rural Tacoma location, which director Curtis Hanson uses for its Norman Rockwell-ish overtones.

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The Innocents (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.) Jack Clayton’s superb 1961 version of Henry James’ “The Turn of the Screw” centers on Deborah Kerr’s remarkable portrayal of a governess tormented by seemingly supernatural events which may or may not be real.