Harold and Maude Movie on Wednesday’s TV Highlights
Harold and Maude: Long a cult classic, director Hal Ashby’s dark, highly original 1971 comedy is the kind of movie you want to sit all your friends down to watch. Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon play the title characters, a death-obsessed young man and a 79-year-old woman who teaches him to love life (7 p.m. TCM).
Get Smart: Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway assume Don Adams and Barbara Feldon’s classic television roles as Agents 86 and 99 in this 2008 action-comedy (6 p.m. HBO).
Alfie: Michael Caine earned an Oscar nomination for his unforgettable performance as a handsome cockney womanizer who goes relentlessly from conquest to conquest, oblivious to the emotional devastation he leaves in his wake. Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin and Vivien Merchant costar in this surprisingly dark 1966 comedy (3 p.m. TCM).