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In the 1993 The Fugitive (NBC Sunday at 8:30 p.m.) Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) never stops to catch his breath, and neither would you if fearsome U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard (supporting actor Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones) was on your trail. A crisp and jolting melodrama that screws the tension pitilessly tight, director Andrew Davis’ super-adrenalized version of the old TV show about the innocent man simultaneously fleeing the law and trying to find his wife’s murderer is one movie that more than delivers on expectations.
White Men Can’t Jump (ABC Thursday at 9 p.m.) finds Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes, charming and believably athletic, are the Laurel and Hardy of the half-court game. Graced with good-humored comic energy, they overcome sizable script problems and turn Ron Shelton’s 1992 film into a sassy and profane urban fairy tale that finds laughs in some very clever places.
The Wizard of Oz (CBS Friday at 8 p.m.), MGM’s classic 1939 musical version of L. Frank Baum’s fairy tale, is one of those movies that justifies the entire studio system. With Judy Garland as Dorothy, Scarecrow Ray Bolger, Tin Woodsman Jack Haley and Bert Lahr (a “dandy lion”) as her three comrades. Margaret Hamilton as everyone’s favorite Wicked Witch and Frank Morgan as the crafty, silver-tongued Wizard. The great score is by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg.
Moonstruck (KTLA Friday at 8 p.m.) is one of the juiciest romantic comedies of the ‘80s, this is the film that provided Cher a role that let her comic sensibilities out for a romp as a young widow whose dull life suddenly shifts 180 degrees under the spell of an extraordinarily full moon. Featuring Nicolas Cage, Danny Aiello, and Olympia Dukakis as Cher’s clear-eyed mother. Both Dukakis and Cher won Oscars under Norman Jewison’s direction.
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