TV Schedule for ScreenPix: Action

Call of the Wild (1976)

Based on Jack London's classic about two gold-seekers who forge their way to the Klondike with their faithful dog Buck.

The One That Got Away (1957)

A captured German pilot (Hardy Kruger) aims to escape from the British; he gets his chance in Canada.

Beachhead (1954)

Marines (Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy) work with a planter's daughter (Mary Murphy) who knows about Japanese minefields in the Solomon Islands.

Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)

Two rivals (Jeff Chandler, Jack Palance) from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin.

The Purple Plain (1954)

An RAF pilot (Gregory Peck) crash-lands with his navigator and another officer in World War II Burma.

Kings Go Forth (1958)

An Army lieutenant (Frank Sinatra) and sergeant (Tony Curtis) become rivals for the daughter (Natalie Wood) of a mixed marriage in 1944 France.

Pork Chop Hill (1959)

A lieutenant (Gregory Peck) is ordered to take an inconsequential hill during the Korean War truce talks.

Assassination (1987)

A Secret Service agent (Charles Bronson) and the president's wife (Jill Ireland) flee from a senator's (Michael Ansara) hit man.

A Prayer for the Dying (1987)

An IRA hit man (Mickey Rourke) flees to London and confesses a murder to a priest (Bob Hoskins) who has witnessed it.

The File of the Golden Goose (1969)

A U.S. agent (Yul Brynner) and a Scotland Yard man (Edward Woodward) infiltrate a forgery ring run by someone called the Owl.

The Killer Elite (1975)

A former hit man (James Caan) for the CIA protects the Asian target of a double-crossing colleague (Robert Duvall).

Three Came to Kill (1960)

Assassins take a flight controller's family hostage to force him into revealing the aircraft carrying their quarry.

Pier 5, Havana (1959)

An American's search for a friend lost during the Cuban revolution leads to revolutionaries plotting Castro's demise.

Operation Bottleneck (1961)

World War II paratroopers stage a rescue mission in Burma to recover a wounded officer taken prisoner by the Japanese.

Triple Deception (1956)

Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.

The Secret Place (1958)

Robbers try to retrieve gems that fell into the hands of a policeman's son.