Film choice

Robin and Marian (1976) FILM4, 1.10PM ★★★★

 Sean Connery gives one of the best performances of his career as a middle-aged Robin Hood, who heads home to Sherwood Forest after the death of Richard I. He finds that scaling a castle wall isn’t as easy as it used to be, Maid Marian (Audrey Hepburn) is still miffed at being left in the lurch, and the Sheriff (Robert Shaw) is up to his old tricks in Richard Lester’s good-natured romance. Look out for Ronnie Barker as Friar Tuck.

Jerry Maguire (1996) SKY CINEMA GREATS, 5.40PM ★★★★

 In Cameron Crowe’s macho romcom, Tom Cruise plays a sports agent who has an attack of conscience and urges his colleagues to think about the welfare of their clients. He’s duly fired but announces that he’ll start his own agency. A washed-up American footballer (Cuba Gooding Jr) and a single mother (Renée Zellweger) are the only ones who agree to go with him. Here, the classic quote, “You had me at ‘hello’” was born.

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) ITV4, 10.10PM ★★★★

 Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this marvellous warm-hearted western adapted from Forrest Carter’s novel and set during the American Civil War. Eastwood plays the eponymous Missouri farmer who, driven by memories of his family’s slaughter, becomes an outlaw when he refuses to join his Confederate comrades in surrender, in favour of seeking revenge on the men who murdered his kin.