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Kiss of Death (AMC Sunday at 5:30 p.m., again at 10 p.m.). This is the 1947 Henry Hathaway film noir that introduced Richard Widmark as a screen villain so nasty he even pushes an old lady in a wheelchair down a staircase. Victor Mature stars.
The Goldwyn Follies (Channel 11 Thursday at 2:30 a.m.). Samuel Goldwyn’s first venture (in 1938) into three-strip Technicolor has a plot too ludicrous to describe, but it does have Vera Zorina dancing to Balanchine choreography, a George and Ira Gershwin score, scenes from “La Traviata,” Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy and even the Ritz Brothers.
The Fortune Cookie (Channel 11 Friday at 2:30 a.m.), one of the most sparkling of the Billy Wilder-I.A.L. Diamond collaborations, teams Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in a modern-day morality play in which Matthau’s Oscar-winning shyster lawyer (“Whiplash Willie”) tries to cash in on an accident suffered by his nice-guy brother-in-law (Lemmon).
Glory (TMC Friday at 11 p.m.). This eloquent, heart-tugging Civil War epic about the first black infantry regiment to march off to battle for the Union boasts splendid performances from Matthew Broderick as a prim Bostonian placed in charge of the regiment, and from Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Jihmi Kennedy and Andre Braugher as four of the men in his command.
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