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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (KCOP Sunday at 8 p.m.), John Ford’s penultimate 1962 film, is a splendidly reflective Western starring James Stewart, John Wayne and Lee Marvin.
Bird on a Wire (NBC Sunday at 8:30 p.m.), a frenetic and witless 1990 comedy, stars Mel Gibson as a former counterculture roustabout, now in the Federal Witness Relocation Program, who is working in a Detroit gas station when he’s recognized by his ex-sweetheart Goldie Hawn.
Who Is Julia? (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.) is a flawed but provocative 1986 MTV production starring Mare Winningham as a woman who becomes the first human brain transplant patient.
Sands of Iwo Jima (KTTV Monday at 8 p.m., TBS Wednesday at 7:05 p.m.), a classic 1949 war movie, was directed by Allan Dwan and starred John Wayne in an Oscar-nominated portrayal of an initially rebellious Marine.
Who Killed Vincent Chin? (KCET Monday at 11 p.m.), Christine Choy’s chilling and skillful Oscar-nominated 1988 documentary, probes the murder of a Chinese-American auto worker on the eve of his marriage.
The 1987 TV movie The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (KCOP Monday at 8 p.m., concluding Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is fabulous hokum, starring Ann-Margret as a showgirl-turned-socialite-turned drunken neurotic; the other Mrs. Grenville is played by none other than Claudette Colbert as Ann-Margret’s snobbish old-money mother-in-law.
The Kiss (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.), a smart, fast and sassy 1988 horror picture, as fun as it is scary (and gory, too) stars exotic Joanna Pacula, who is a beautiful but rightly unsettling heroine.
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (KCOP Thursday at 8 p.m.), a rambunctious and appealing 1969 Burt Kennedy Western, stars Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy and David Carradine.
The 1986 Psycho III (KTLA Friday at 8 p.m.) is better than “Psycho II,” yet fails any sequel’s acid test: It feeds off the original without deepening it. This time Anthony Perkins directed--effectively as possible--as well as reprised Norman Bates.
Just Between Friends (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.) is a nice--maybe too nice--little 1986 comedy about female bonding, starring Mary Tyler Moore, a conventional, upscale housewife, and Christine Lahti as a wisecracking TV newswoman; they meet in an aerobics class.
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