SHE (1965)
BBC Two, 12.35pm
The low-budget British horror studio Hammer produced Robert Day’s ripping yarn, a camp version of H. Rider Haggard’s much-filmed 19th-century novel. John Richardson stars as a penniless explorer who is summoned to darkest Africa by the mysterious empress Ayesha (Ursula Andress), who believes him to be the reincarnation of her former lover. Glorious nonsense. (106min)
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DIRTY HARRY (1971)
Five, 9pm
Frank Sinatra originally signed on to play the San Francisco police inspector Harry Callahan, but a hand injury allowed Clint Eastwood to step into his signature role as the cannon-toting cop. Played with enough tongue-in- cheek humour to please both liberals and conservatives, Don Siegel’s iconic vigilante thriller became a billion-dollar baby for Eastwood, spawning four sequels and securing his superstar future. (102min)
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THE PAPER (1994)
ITV3, 9pm
An unusually gritty comic drama from Ron Howard, this portrait of the news desk at a New York tabloid avoids easy satire in favour of wisecracking humanity and prickly ethical dilemmas. Michael Keaton’s troubled editor is under pressure from his boss (Glenn Close) to expose two black suspects in a double murder, even though neither believes them to be guilty. (112min)
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HEAD ON (2004)
Film4, 1.10am
Fatih Akin’s award-winning drama is a gripping, intense, emotionally raw road movie that begins in the sleazy punk dives of Hamburg and concludes in the back streets of Istanbul. The charismatic Birol Ünel and the former porn actress Sibel Kekilli play boozy, druggy rebels who marry to escape suffocating Islamic strictures, only to fall dramatically and dangerously in love. Highly recommended. (121min)