FRIDAY: Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here. Abraham Polonsky (blacklisted in the fifties as a fellow-traveler) wrote and directed thi hard-neadest in 1969. Robert Redford, Katherine Ross, and Robert Blake highnight the cast. CH. 7, 11:50 p.m. Color, 2 hrs.
SATURDAY: Grand Illusion. The first and the finest of the wartime-escape films, Jean Renoir's 1937 antiwar movie is a classic in every way. CH. 2, 8 p.m. B-W. 2 hrs.
SUNDAY: Some Like It Hot. 1959 Billy Wilder spoof stars Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon. CH. 56, 6 p.m. B-W. 2 hrs. Lawrence of Arabia. A stirring romantic intelligent and magnificent epic. David Lean's 1962 biography of T.E. Lawrence won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and vaulted Peter O'Toole to stardom. First time on television. CH. 5, 9 p.m. Color. 2 hrs. Concluded Monday night.
MONDAY: Diary of a Mad Housewife. Carrie Snodgrass portrays a frustrated housewife in Frank and Eleanor Perry's 1970 examination of social-climbing in America. A movie that is less than the sum of its parts, some of which are very good. CH. 4, 9 p.m. Color. 2 hrs.
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