HARVEY

Monday, 3:30 p.m., AMC

James Stewart is loveable as ever playing an amiable dipsomaniac with a 6-foot invisible rabbit friend in this charming fantasy from 1950. Josephine Hull is hilarious as his mortified sister.

SOUTH PACIFIC

Wednesday, 10:45 p.m., TCM

Take a vicarious vacation with this toe-tapping island-set musical about a love affair between a U.S. Navy nurse (Mitzi Gaynor) and a French planter (Rosanno Brazzi) during WWII.

GIGI

Thursday, 1:30 a.m., TCM

A frothy, Oscar-winning musical adaptation of Colette’s tale set in turn-of-the-century Paris, with the gorgeous Louis Jourdan as the eligible bachelor smitten by the wild-child tomboy of the title (Leslie Caron.)

KING KONG

Thursday, 10:30 a.m., TCM

While awaiting Peter Jackson’s special effects-filled version of the gigantic ape tale, check out the scream-happy 1933 original, starring Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong.

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER

Friday, 12:30 a.m., TNT

A time-warp trip to the 1970s, when disco was king and John Travolta was svelte, this Brooklyn-set tale of youthful rebellion still resonates today, in spite of the funny duds. Co-starring Karen Lynn Gorney as Travolta’s dance partner. She can’t do the accent.

MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY

Friday, 3 p.m., TCM

Both Charles Laughton as the out-ofcontrol tyrant Captain Bligh, and Clark Gable as the mutinous Fletcher Christian, are superb in this historically dubious sea-going adventure from 1935.