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(1971) ● 12.35PM, PARAMOUNT ★★★

A fine comic western, with James Garner as a rogue passing himself off as a gunman and getting himself in trouble as a result. No one is better than Garner (above) at this sort of tongue-in-cheek stuff, but his saddlehardened co-stars lend authentic appeal.

BULLITT

(1968) 15 ◆ 9PM, ITV4 ★★★★ Star and motor vehicle are in perfect harmony as the US actor Steve Mcqueen races through San Francisco in Peter Yates’s classic crime thriller. Mcqueen is the cop who drives his car up and down that city’s vertiginous streets in one of cinema’s most magnificent car chases.

★★★★ Featuring some impressive sets and costumes – you’d expect nothing less – this biopic of Jackie Kennedy stars Natalie Portman (left) as the First Lady. A week after her husband is assassinated in Dallas, Jackie meets with a journalist at her home in Massachusetts to discuss JFK’S legacy.

THE EXORCIST III (1990) 15

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10.55PM, HORROR ★★★★

Skip the first sequel to William Friedkin’s much-lauded horror (see Classic Film Choice) and go straight to this. George C. Scott is the detective investigating strange events seemingly linked to the late Father Karras. Freeview 68, Freesat 138, Sky 317, Virgin 149)

THE FIRM (1993) 15 JACKIE (2016) 15 ◆ 9PM, FILM4

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11.05PM, CH5 ★★★★

John Grisham’s 1991 legal thriller was rapidly adapted for the cinema by the great Sydney Pollack. Tom Cruise tops the cast as a law graduate who receives a job offer he can’t refuse. Wife Jeanne Tripplehorn, however, suspects that it may be too good to be true…

BLACK HAWK DOWN (2001) 15 11.20PM,

ITV4 Harrowing war film chronicling the infamous Battle of Mogadishu, which should have been a straightforward mission, but turned into a devastating fight. Josh Hartnett (above) is one of the soldiers fighting for their lives.