In Retro is HDNet Movies' showcase for memorable classic movies from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
Bullitt -  |
| Rating: |
PG |
 |
| Year: |
1968 |
| Cast: | Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset |
| Director: |
Peter Yates |
| Synopsis: |
A shoot-first detective is assigned to protect a star witness for 48 hours. A car chase through the streets of San Francisco is one of Hollywood's most famous. |
| Run Time: |
1:53 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Sun, Jul 13th - 6:35 PM ET / 3:35 PM PT
Mon, Jul 14th - 2:05 AM ET / Sun, Jul 13th - 11:05 PM PT
Sat, Jul 19th - 9:35 AM ET / 6:35 AM PT
Thu, Jul 24th - 6:05 PM ET / 3:05 PM PT |
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Cool Hand Luke - |
| Rating: |
NR |
 |
| Year: |
1967 |
| Cast: | Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon |
| Director: |
Stuart Rosenberg |
| Synopsis: |
A man sentenced to a prison camp refuses to compromise with authority. |
| Run Time: |
2:06 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Fri, Jul 4th - 11:45 AM ET / 8:45 AM PT
Sat, Jul 12th - 2:30 PM ET / 11:30 AM PT
Thu, Jul 17th - 12:15 PM ET / 9:15 AM PT
Wed, Jul 23rd - 3:30 PM ET / 12:30 PM PT
Mon, Jul 28th - 10:00 PM ET / 7:00 PM PT
Tue, Jul 29th - 2:15 AM ET / Mon, Jul 28th - 11:15 PM PT |
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - |
| Rating: |
NR |
 |
| Year: |
1964 |
| Cast: | Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden |
| Director: |
Stanley Kubrick |
| Synopsis: |
Stanley Kubrick's comedic look at Cold War paranoia centers on absurd attempts to stop an impending nuclear war. |
| Run Time: |
1:37 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Sun, Jul 20th - 8:45 PM ET / 5:45 PM PT
Mon, Jul 21st - 4:00 AM ET / 1:00 AM PT
Sat, Jul 26th - 11:10 AM ET / 8:10 AM PT
Wed, Jul 30th - 11:45 AM ET / 8:45 AM PT |
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Duel - |
| Rating: |
PG |
 |
| Year: |
1971 |
| Cast: | Dennis Weaver, Tim Herbert, Charles Seel |
| Director: |
Steven Spielberg |
| Synopsis: |
Steven Spielberg's first notable film, in which a traveling salesman is repeatedly attacked by a tractor-trailer on a desert highway. |
| Run Time: |
1:29 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Fri, Jul 4th - 10:15 AM ET / 7:15 AM PT
Sat, Jul 5th - 4:30 AM ET / 1:30 AM PT
Thu, Jul 10th - 5:30 AM ET / 2:30 AM PT
Sat, Jul 19th - 8:00 AM ET / 5:00 AM PT
Wed, Jul 30th - 8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT
Wed, Jul 30th - 11:45 PM ET / 8:45 PM PT |
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Easy Rider - |
| Rating: |
R |
 |
| Year: |
1969 |
| Cast: | Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson |
| Director: |
Dennis Hopper |
| Synopsis: |
Two hippy-ish young men tour the American southwest on their motorcycles in search of everything America was claiming to be. |
| Run Time: |
1:35 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Fri, Jul 4th - 4:05 PM ET / 1:05 PM PT
Wed, Jul 16th - 6:15 PM ET / 3:15 PM PT
Mon, Jul 28th - 5:35 AM ET / 2:35 AM PT |
|
Executive Action - - New for July! |
| Rating: |
PG |
 |
| Year: |
1973 |
| Cast: | Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer |
| Director: |
David Miller |
| Synopsis: |
A story based on a far-reaching conspiracy that led to the infamous murder of John F. Kennedy. |
| Run Time: |
1:30 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Sun, Jul 27th - 6:00 PM ET / 3:00 PM PT
Sun, Jul 27th - 10:45 PM ET / 7:45 PM PT |
|
For a Few Dollars More - |
| Rating: |
R |
 |
| Year: |
1965 |
| Cast: | Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonte |
| Director: |
Sergio Leone |
| Synopsis: |
After teaming up with a shady gunslinger to find a man and collect a bounty, the Man with No Name begins to realize his partner may have devious intentions. |
| Run Time: |
2:11 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Fri, Jul 4th - 5:45 PM ET / 2:45 PM PT
Sat, Jul 12th - 4:45 PM ET / 1:45 PM PT
Thu, Jul 17th - 10:00 AM ET / 7:00 AM PT
Mon, Jul 21st - 5:45 AM ET / 2:45 AM PT
Thu, Jul 31st - 1:15 AM ET / Wed, Jul 30th - 10:15 PM PT |
|
Giant - |
| Rating: |
G |
 |
| Year: |
1956 |
| Cast: | Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean |
| Director: |
George Stevens |
| Synopsis: |
Saga covering two generations of a wealthy Texas cattle rancher, who marries a hard-headed Virginia woman and takes her to live on his ranch. |
| Run Time: |
3:18 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Sun, Jul 6th - 6:05 PM ET / 3:05 PM PT
Mon, Jul 7th - 1:45 AM ET / Sun, Jul 6th - 10:45 PM PT
Sat, Jul 12th - 11:05 AM ET / 8:05 AM PT
Mon, Jul 21st - 10:05 AM ET / 7:05 AM PT
Tue, Jul 29th - 9:15 AM ET / 6:15 AM PT |
|
The Great Gatsby - |
| Rating: |
PG |
 |
| Year: |
1974 |
| Cast: | Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern |
| Director: |
Jack Clayton |
| Synopsis: |
Film adaptation of the classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a self-made millionaire who gets pulled into a life of shallow desires, obsession, and tragedy when he attempts to win the love of a married woman. Screenplay written by Francis Ford Coppola. |
| Run Time: |
2:23 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Sun, Jul 6th - 11:15 PM ET / 8:15 PM PT
Mon, Jul 7th - 6:45 AM ET / 3:45 AM PT
Sat, Jul 12th - 7:05 AM ET / 4:05 AM PT
Fri, Jul 18th - 7:05 AM ET / 4:05 AM PT
Tue, Jul 22nd - 11:35 AM ET / 8:35 AM PT |
|
Jaws - - New for August! |
| Rating: |
PG |
 |
| Year: |
1975 |
| Cast: | Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw |
| Director: |
Steven Spielberg |
| Synopsis: |
Steven Spielberg's Oscar winning story of a fisherman, a scientist, and a police chief, who set out to stop a great white shark menacing a small resort town. |
| Run Time: |
2:04 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Sat, Aug 2nd - 8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT
Sun, Aug 3rd - 12:15 AM ET / Sat, Aug 2nd - 9:15 PM PT |
|
The Jerk - - New for July! |
| Rating: |
R |
 |
| Year: |
1979 |
| Cast: | Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams |
| Director: |
Carl Riener |
| Synopsis: |
Steve Martin wrote and stars in the story of Navin Johnson, a small town imbecile who strikes it rich on his way from Mississippi to St. Louis. |
| Run Time: |
1:34 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Fri, Jul 11th - 8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT
Sat, Jul 12th - 1:30 AM ET / Fri, Jul 11th - 10:30 PM PT
Sun, Jul 20th - 7:00 PM ET / 4:00 PM PT
Mon, Jul 21st - 12:35 AM ET / Sun, Jul 20th - 9:35 PM PT
Sat, Jul 26th - 12:50 PM ET / 9:50 AM PT
Thu, Jul 31st - 9:30 AM ET / 6:30 AM PT |
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Lilies of the Field - - New for July! |
| Rating: |
NR |
 |
| Year: |
1963 |
| Cast: | Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann |
| Director: |
Ralph Nelson |
| Synopsis: |
Sidney Poitier won an Oscar for his performance as Homer Smith, an out of work construction worker, who finds himself in the company of nuns who believe he has been sent by God to build their church. |
| Run Time: |
1:34 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Sun, Jul 6th - 9:30 PM ET / 6:30 PM PT
Mon, Jul 7th - 5:05 AM ET / 2:05 AM PT
Sat, Jul 12th - 9:30 AM ET / 6:30 AM PT
Tue, Jul 22nd - 6:15 PM ET / 3:15 PM PT
Sun, Jul 27th - 8:00 AM ET / 5:00 AM PT |
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Mean Streets |
| Rating: |
R |
 |
| Year: |
1973 |
| Cast: | Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel, David Carradine |
| Director: |
Martin Scorsese |
| Synopsis: |
A small time hood and his crazy friend struggle with life on the streets in Little Italy. |
| Run Time: |
1:52 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Mon, Jul 14th - 4:00 AM ET / 1:00 AM PT
Fri, Jul 25th - 4:45 AM ET / 1:45 AM PT |
|
Midnight Express - |
| Rating: |
R |
 |
| Year: |
1978 |
| Cast: | Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins |
| Director: |
Alan Parker |
| Synopsis: |
Based on the real life events of a young American man's struggle to survive the tortures of the Turkish penal system, after he is sentenced to life. |
| Run Time: |
2:01 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Wed, Jul 16th - 12:15 AM ET / Tue, Jul 15th - 9:15 PM PT
Tue, Jul 29th - 4:30 AM ET / 1:30 AM PT |
|
The Music Man - |
| Rating: |
NR |
 |
| Year: |
1962 |
| Cast: | Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett |
| Director: |
Morton DaCosta |
| Synopsis: |
A con man travels to River City, Iowa, and convinces the town to finance a children's marching band. He plans on stealing the money before the instruments arrive, but that's before he falls in love with the town librarian. |
| Run Time: |
2:31 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Mon, Jul 7th - 1:05 PM ET / 10:05 AM PT
Tue, Jul 8th - 4:15 AM ET / 1:15 AM PT
Wed, Jul 16th - 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT
Tue, Jul 22nd - 3:40 PM ET / 12:40 PM PT
Thu, Jul 31st - 11:15 AM ET / 8:15 AM PT |
|
Mutiny on the Bounty - |
| Rating: |
NR |
 |
| Year: |
1962 |
| Cast: | Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris |
| Director: |
Lewis Milestone |
| Synopsis: |
Remake of the 1935 film based on the novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, which tells the account of the 1789 mutiny led by Fletcher Christian against Captain Blight of the Bounty. |
| Run Time: |
2:59 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Sun, Jul 13th - 11:05 PM ET / 8:05 PM PT
Mon, Jul 14th - 8:35 AM ET / 5:35 AM PT
Tue, Jul 22nd - 8:30 AM ET / 5:30 AM PT
Tue, Jul 29th - 12:35 PM ET / 9:35 AM PT
Wed, Jul 30th - 7:00 AM ET / 4:00 AM PT |
|
Network - |
| Rating: |
R |
 |
| Year: |
1976 |
| Cast: | Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch |
| Director: |
Sidney Lumet |
| Synopsis: |
Satire about a TV network that exploits the mental breakdown of an ex-TV anchor. |
| Run Time: |
2:01 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Fri, Jul 4th - 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT
Sun, Jul 20th - 10:30 PM ET / 7:30 PM PT
Mon, Jul 21st - 1:30 PM ET / 10:30 AM PT
Mon, Jul 28th - 6:00 PM ET / 3:00 PM PT |
|
Papillon - |
| Rating: |
PG |
 |
| Year: |
1973 |
| Cast: | Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory |
| Director: |
Franklin Schaffner |
| Synopsis: |
After he is sentenced to life, a wrongly accused petty criminal is determined to escape from his existence in the French penal colony located on Devil's Island. Based on the autobiographical writings of French thief Henri Charriere. |
| Run Time: |
2:30 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Mon, Jul 14th - 6:00 AM ET / 3:00 AM PT
Mon, Jul 21st - 3:35 PM ET / 12:35 PM PT
Tue, Jul 22nd - 6:00 AM ET / 3:00 AM PT
Tue, Jul 29th - 6:35 AM ET / 3:35 AM PT |
|
Prisoner of Second Avenue - |
| Rating: |
PG |
 |
| Year: |
1975 |
| Cast: | Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks |
| Director: |
Melvin Frank |
| Synopsis: |
A 48 year-old man and his wife must face the trivial and relentless vexations of New York life when he loses not just his job, but also his confidence. |
| Run Time: |
1:38 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Mon, Jul 7th - 11:20 AM ET / 8:20 AM PT
Wed, Jul 16th - 4:30 PM ET / 1:30 PM PT
Tue, Jul 22nd - 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT
Wed, Jul 30th - 10:05 AM ET / 7:05 AM PT |
|
Serpico - |
| Rating: |
R |
 |
| Year: |
1973 |
| Cast: | Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe |
| Director: |
Sidney Lumet |
| Synopsis: |
Based on the true-life account of Frank Serpico, an undercover straight-edge New York cop whose safety was compromised when he exposed police department corruption. |
| Run Time: |
2:09 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Thu, Jul 17th - 2:30 PM ET / 11:30 AM PT |
|
Silk Stockings - |
| Rating: |
NR |
 |
| Year: |
1957 |
| Cast: | Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige |
| Director: |
Rouben Mamoulian |
| Synopsis: |
Musical remake of "Ninotchka" about a charming American movie producer, who while in Paris making a movie warms the heart of a cold Soviet official who is sent to keep a watchful eye on a Russian composer. |
| Run Time: |
1:57 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Wed, Jul 16th - 10:00 AM ET / 7:00 AM PT
Mon, Jul 21st - 8:00 AM ET / 5:00 AM PT |
|
Splendor In The Grass - |
| Rating: |
NR |
 |
| Year: |
1961 |
| Cast: | Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle |
| Director: |
Elia Kazan |
| Synopsis: |
Set in 1925 rural Kansas, the story of a teenage couple trying to keep their relationships on an intellectual level, and how their families and sexual pressures are tearing them apart. |
| Run Time: |
2:04 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Mon, Jul 7th - 9:15 AM ET / 6:15 AM PT
Wed, Jul 16th - 7:50 AM ET / 4:50 AM PT |
|
THX 1138 |
| Rating: |
R |
 |
| Year: |
1971 |
| Cast: | Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley |
| Director: |
George Lucas |
| Synopsis: |
A computer-matched couple who fall in love attempt to escape the futuristic society where humans live underground and are tracked by number. |
| Run Time: |
1:28 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Fri, Aug 1st - 10:15 PM ET / 7:15 PM PT
Sat, Aug 2nd - 2:00 AM ET / Fri, Aug 1st - 11:00 PM PT |
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Witness for the Prosecution - - New for July! |
| Rating: |
NR |
 |
| Year: |
1957 |
| Cast: | Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton |
| Director: |
Billy Wilder |
| Synopsis: |
A man's murder trial is complicated when his wife, who also his alibi, decides to testify against him. |
| Run Time: |
1:56 |
| Language: |
English |
| Air Dates: | Sun, Jul 27th - 4:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM PT |
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