NEW YORK (CNS) -- The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies on network and cable television the week of June 16. Please note that televised versions may or may not be edited for language, nudity, violence, and sexual situations.

Sunday, June 16, 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. EDT (TCM) "A Family Affair" (1937). Fine old-fashioned and full-blooded family melodrama in which Judge Hardy (Lionel Barrymore) rescues the town from an aqueduct scam while saving the marriage of his eldest daughter (Cecilia Parker). Directed by George B. Seitz, the picture's strong success spawned 15 sequels in a series that came to focus more on the judge's teenage son (Mickey Rooney) than the role of sage family patriarch created by Barrymore but thereafter played by Lewis Stone. In 1942 the series received a special Oscar for "representing the American way of life." The original is dated entertainment but still of interest for its idealistic view of family life. The Catholic News Service classification of the theatrical version was A-I -- general patronage. Not rated by the Motion Picture Association of America.

Monday, June 17, 5:45-8 p.m. EDT (TCM) "The Professionals" (1966). Four soldiers of fortune (Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Woody Strode and Robert Ryan) are hired to rescue a woman (Claudia Cardinale) being held for ransom by a Mexican bandit (Jack Palance). What raises this above the level of the average action adventure movie is the stylish manner and steady pace of director Richard Brooks' homage to the special skills of a group. Some brutal violence, coarse language and several sensuous scenes. The Catholic News Service classification of the theatrical version was A-III -- adults. Not rated by the Motion Picture Association of America.

Saturday, June 22, 8-9:35 p.m. EDT (HBO) "The Old Man & the Gun" (2018). Writer-director David Lowery's adaptation of David Grann's New Yorker magazine profile of bank robber Forrest Tucker, who died in prison in 2004, is driven by the conceit of a career criminal as a jaunty old coot. During a wide-ranging spree of heists in 1981, Tucker (Robert Redford) works with two partners (Danny Glover and Tom Waits), and their modus operandi is always nonviolent. He also finds time to woo a widow (Sissy Spacek) who's struggling to hold on to her horse ranch. But a police detective (Casey Affleck) is doggedly on the thief's trail. Viewers hoping to identify a point or moral to the story won't locate one, but some may enjoy the loping drive around the American Southwest. Others will find it soporific. Benignly viewed larceny, fleeting rough language. The Catholic News Service classification of the theatrical version was A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating was PG-13 -- parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

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Mulderig is on the staff of Catholic News Service.