TV24 is proud to bring you popular movie classics in our TV24 Vintage Theatre.  Below is a partial list of some of the greatest movies of all times that have become a part of our library. Enjoy them and feel free to make suggestions for additional classics you would like to see on TV24.         Suggestions!


Angel and the Badman
Starring John Wayne, Gail Russell, Bruce Cabot, Harry Carey.
First-rate western with Quaker girl (Russell) humanizing a gunfighter wanted by the law.

At War With The Army
Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergin.
Sgt. Martin tries to get PFC Lweis to help him out of girl trouble. Lewis steals the show as the bumbling private. The highlight comes when the boys imitate Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald in a hilarious parody of “Going My Way.”

The Big Trees
Starring Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan, John Archer.
A classic tale of early California homesteaders and their struggle to establish the timber industry in redwood country.

Blue Steel
Starring John Wayne, Yakima Canutt.
U.s. Marshall Wayne infiltrates a gang of outlaws who are threatening everybody in town to get to the gold vein underneath.

The Bushwhackers
Dorothy Malone, John Ireland, Lon Chaney, Jr., Wayne Morris, Jack Elam.
Through with violence, a Confederate veteran vows never to use a gun again, but is forced to reconsider when outlaws threaten his family and the town.

The Cape Town Affair
Starring James Brolin, Jacqueline Bisset, Claire Trevor
Effective suspense tale set in South Africa about a pickpocket who gets more than he bargained for when he snatches a purse containing secret microfilm. Interesting remake of Samuel Fuller's classic 1953 crime film "Pickup On South Street."

Charade
Starring Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn. Directed by Stanley Donen.
Suave comedy-mystery in the Hitchcock vein, with Grant aiding widow Hepburn to recover fortune stashed by her dead husband, and being sought by a trio of sinister crooks. Academy Award Nominee for Best Song

Chino
Starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Vincent Van Patten
Bronson plays a half-breed horse rancher whose peaceful life is disrupted by racism and violence when he falls in love with a rival's sister. Hard-edged western with equal parts of action and romance.

Dangerous Relations
Starring Louis Gossett, Jr., Blair Underwood, Rae Dawn Chong.
Gripping story of a convict who discovers that the son he deserted years ago is in the same prison. Even though his son hates him, the father risks his life to protect the young man from evil influences.

D. O. A.
Starring Harry Popkin Production. Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler. Directed by Rudolf Mate.
Well-done suspenser involving O'Brien trying to find out, in the 24 hours he has left to live, who gave him a slow-acting poison and why. Filmed on the streets of L.A. and San Francisco.

A Farewell to Arms
Starring Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou. Directed by Frank Borzage.
Lushly romantic adaptation of the Hemingway novel about an ill-fated WWII romance between an American soldier and a British nurse. Riveting performances by Helen Hayes and Gary Cooper as the sweet English nurse and the cynical American ambulance driver who fall in love on the Italian front and are separated by combat and another man's jealousy. A huge box-office success in its day. Academy Award Winner for Best Cinematography, Academy Award Winner for Best Sound Recording, Academy Award Nominee for Best Picture

The Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
Starring Powers Booth, James Earl Jones, Ned Beatty, Brad Dourif.
Boothe won an Emmy for his powerful performance as Jim Jones, the charismatic religious cult leader whose controversial beliefs ultimately caused the ritual suicides of 900 of his followers in the jungles of South America.

Julius Caesar
Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielug, Richard Chamberlain, Diana Rigg.
An all-star cast in Shakespeare’s classic drama about political greed and corruption in the Roman Empire.

The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay
Starring Tim Matheson, Sean Young, Kristen Bell, Edward Asner.
The West Wing's Tim Matheson stars with Sean Young of Blade Runner in a story about an alcoholic loner, Al, suddenly forced to reunite with his teenage daughter, Alison, he abandoned when she was six. Auggie (Ed Asner) plays a retired English teacher who shows Al that it's not too late to be a real father to Alison. This is a heart-warming drama about mending a special relationship.

McClintock
John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Stephanie Powers. Directed by Andrew McLaglen.
Rowdy, lively Western-comedy with Wayne encountering his refined wife (O’Hara) who wants a divorce, and his grown-up daughter (Powers) caught between her mother and father. One of Wayne’s best.

Mistaken Identity
Starring Melissa Gilbert, Rosanna Arquette. Directed by Douglas Barr.
Based on true events, golden globe nominees Gilbert and Arquette, star in this heart-wrenching drama about two mothers, Linda and Sara, who discover the sons they have been raising since their birth eighteen months earlier- were switched at birth. Though they agree to raise the child they've been raising, Darryl, who left Linda when she became pregnant, comes back and insists he never gave up rights to his biological son.

One-Eyed Jacks
Starring Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado, Pina Pellicer, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens. Directed by Marlon Brando.
An engaging psychological Western about an outlaw (Brando) who seeks to settle the score with a former partner (Malden) who's now a sheriff in California. Brando broods and frets his way out of prison and across the West to avenge Malden's betrayal of him. Brando directed and stars in this offbeat Western tale noted for its realism and romance.

Scrooge
Sir Seymour Hicks, Maurice Evans, Robert Drake, Donald Calthrop, Oscar Ashe. Directed by Henry Edwards.
Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” brought to life, with Hicks impressive as the Scrooge.

Seventh Cavalry
Starring Randolph Scott, Barbara Hale, Jeanette Nolan. Directed by Joseph H. Lewis.
A somewhat different look at Custer's defeat by the Sioux in 1876. A soldier who was branded a coward for not taking part in the battle tries to assuage his guilt by heading the burial detail. Scott plays an officer who must prove he didn't desert Custer at Little Big Horn.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Starring Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner
The adventurous life of a successful writer (Peck) is recalled through a series of flashbacks as he and his wife (Hayward), while on safari, await a doctor to save his gangrenous leg. An entertaining story well told in this lavish production. Academy Award Nominee for Best Set Decoration, Academy Award Nominee for Best Cinematography


Holiday Favorites

Christmas Eve
Starring George Raft, George Brent, Randolph Scott, Joan Blondell, Ann Harding, Reginald Denny.
A delightful adventure in family unity. In an effort to save her estate, a wealthy spinster must find a way to keep the estate out of the hands of her ungrateful and selfish nephew. She calls for help from her three foster children. Locating the wild crew proves to be all buy easy, and on Christmas Eve they plan to all meet and show the nephew just who he’s messing with.

The Christmas Wife
Jason Robards, Julie Harris, Don Francks, Patricia Hamilton.
A Christmas tradition is shattered when John Tanner’s wife does and leaves him facing Christmas alone. After some thought, he decides that rather than spend Christmas alone, he’ll answer a singles agency advertisement. The agency matches him a woman named Iris who also is looking for someone to spend the holidays with. She agrees to a date, under the condition that he doesn’t pry about her personal life. After spending a wonderful holiday together and growing closer than they ever imagined—John discovers Iris’ secret. Will it change their relationship forever?

The Winter Stallion
A sixteen-year-old orphan girl, Gwen, has lived with her Grandfather and all his horses on his farm all her life. When he suddenly dies, Gwen’s Uncle Alan is left with the rights to the farm. Uncle Alan has not been home in 20 years and harbors negative feelings about his life long ago. It looks to Gwen as if she will be forced to move away from her only true home. During the mess of the property battle, Gwen takes refuge in her work with Mabon, a stallion who was her grandfather’s hope for the future. As Christmas approaches, will the season bring joy and a promising new beginning?

Meet John Doe
Directed by Frank Capra. Starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, James Gleason, Walter Brennen.
Capra’s classic ode to the common man. This social-commentary comedy/drama stars Cooper as one of the millions of unemployed Depression-ear workers. He’s picked as the “typical American,” John Doe, by a newspaper publisher, and is soon molded into the symbol of the average man by the high-pressure campaign of attractive reporter Stanwyck. The dramatic final sequence has John Doe ready to carry out his promise to jump from the top of the Empire State Building on New Year’s Ever as a protest of man’s inhumanities. Academy Award nominee for Best Original Story.

Scrooge’s Rock N’ Roll Christmas
Starring Jack Elam, Lee Benton, Three Dog Night, Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Association, Bobby Goldsboro, Michael Love (of the Beach Boys), Merrilee Rush.
Jack Elam stars as Scrooge in this entertaining musical production based on Dickens’ Christmas classic. Songs include “Carol of the Bells,” “White Christmas,” “Jingle Bells,” “ Home for the Holidays,” “Rocking Around the Christmas Tree,” “ Do You Hear What I Hear?” and “We Wish You A Merry Christmas.”