Movies on TV
Highlights for each day of the week
Monday, Feb. 11
SwingTime
Fred Astaire is a groom with cold feet that warm significantly when he falls for a dance instructor. Ginger Rogers matches him step for step in the magical duo’s sixth movie together. (1936) 10 a.m., TCM
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Tuesday, Feb. 12
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
It may not be Blazing Saddles, but Mel Brooks’s spoof of the Robin Hood tale has a deserved cult following. (1993)12:30 p.m., AMC
Wednesday, Feb. 13
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Mighty Joe Young
Stop-motion effects guru Ray Harryhausen got his big break animating Joe, a gorilla working on a Hollywood stage, in this underrated film from the team that made 1933’s King Kong. (1949) 4:30 p.m., TCM
Thursday, Feb. 14
Gone With the Wind
Gary Cooper as Rhett and Lucille Ball as Scarlett? It could have happened. On Valentine’s Day, savor the chemistry that Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh instead brought to those iconic roles.(1939) 8 p.m., TCM
Friday, Feb. 15
Hoosiers
Movies about sports underdogs don’t get better than this oft-screened tale about an Indiana high school hoops team. Gene Hackman stars.(1986) 9:15 a.m., AMC
Saturday, Feb. 16
Layer Cake
Before he was James Bond, Daniel Craig starred as a cocaine dealer who has to fight his way out of the business. With Sienna Miller. (2004) 3:15 p.m., IFC
Sunday, Feb. 17
Apollo 13
Tom Hanks leads an all-star cast in Ron Howard’s fictionalized account of a 1970 lunar mission that nearly ended in disaster. (1995) 7:30 p.m., Cinemax
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