Movies on TV

Monday, Aug. 1

Planet of the Apes

The original adaptation of Pierre Boulle’s satirical novel about a simian-run world, which spawned a sci-fi franchise that continues to this day. Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall star. (1968) Noon, Cinemax

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Tuesday, Aug. 2

The Gunfighter

This influential film-noir-style Western stars Gregory Peck as a gunslinger on the run from his own reputation. (1950) 7:30 a.m., FMC

Wednesday, Aug. 3

The Old Maid

Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins are superb as Civil War–era cousins who vie for a child’s love in the film version of Zoe Akins’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play, itself an adaptation of an Edith Wharton novella. (1939) 8 p.m., TCM

Thursday, Aug. 4

Random Harvest

Ronald Colman earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination playing an amnesiac Great War veteran. Greer Garson co-stars in this classic World War II–era tearjerker. (1942) 10:15 p.m., TCM

Friday, Aug. 5

Gattaca

This intelligent science-fiction drama is set in a soulless future of genetically engineered perfection. Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, and Jude Law star. (1997) 6 a.m., HBO

Saturday, Aug. 6

Stage Door

A Best Picture Oscar nominee, this classic showbiz comedy-drama follows the aspiring actresses who cohabit a New York boarding house. With Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, and Lucille Ball. (1937) 8 p.m., TCM

Sunday, Aug. 7

Cluny Brown

Director Ernst Lubitsch satirizes British snobbery in this deft comedy about the romance between a plumber’s daughter and a refugee Czech author. Jennifer Jones and Charles Boyer star. (1946) 8 a.m., FMC