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JANE EYRE (1944, b/w)

Channel 4, 1.30pm

This early screen adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s romantic costume drama is stylishly directed by Robert Stevenson. Joan Fontaine plays the heroine, an emotionally scarred orphan who becomes a governess and falls for her ill-tempered employer, Rochester (Orson Welles). Featuring Elizabeth Taylor in one of her earliest roles, Jane Eyre is a classic afternoon weepie. (97min)

ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES/ GOODFELLAS (1938, b/w/1990)

TCM, 7.10pm/10pm

Made half a century apart, this double bill of gangster classics kicks off TCM’s Crime Wave season of hard-boiled cautionary tales. Directed by Michael Curtiz, Angels With Dirty Faces features Jimmy Cagney on incendiary form as a hoodlum who finds unlikely redemption on death row. Meanwhile, Martin Scorsese’s GoodFellas is a magnificent, operatic tale about life inside the New York Mafia. (97min/142min)

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MAGNUM FORCE (1973)

Five, 10pm

The second and best Dirty Harry adventure is an enjoyably overcooked right-wing fantasy from the fevered imagination of the screenwriter John Milius. Clint Eastwood’s cannon-toting San Francisco cop Harry Callahan continues to pursue vigilantes, hippies, hijackers, corrupt officials and liberals on both sides of the law. Milius seems to harbour a sneaking admiration for the illegal police assassination squad who are wiping out the city’s crime barons. But ultimately, of course, Harry must teach these upstarts a few harsh lessons in discipline. (124min)

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BATMAN RETURNS (1992)

Channel 4, 11.35pm

Long before Batman Begins steeped the dysfunctional crime-fighter in pain and neurosis, Tim Burton performed a similar psychological makeover in Batman Returns. In Burton’s second Batman film, the caped crusader (Michael Keaton) becomes entangled in a love-hate triangle with Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer) and the Penguin (Danny DeVito). As ever, Burton sprinkles a dash of dark Expressionism into the comic-book mix. (126min)

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CURTAIN CALL (1999)

Five, 3.35pm

Michael Caine and Maggie Smith play bickering Broadway ghosts. (95min)