Antena 3 broadcasts the return of an iconic contest in the history of television, Catch a million. On Channel 2, The theme night offers two documentaries that analyze the Nazi economic and political framework. For its part, DMAX broadcasts a new appointment with the documentary series 091: Police alert. As for the cinema, a masterpiece of adventure cinema arrives, The man who could reign and a great prison drama, The legend of the indomitable.
‘The legend of the indomitable’
17.45, TCM
Cool Hand Luke. USA, 1967 (120 minutes). Director: Stuart Rosenberg. Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, JD Cannon.
A great example of prison cinema in which an excellent Paul Newman plays a rebellious and nonconformist prisoner who makes his successive escape attempts the only reason for his existence. Narrated with a firm pulse, the film remains young, despite some rather naive moments, thanks to a staging of surprising power. The sequence in which the protagonist eats 50 eggs after a bet with another inmate still surprises with its narrative impetus.
Another date with police work
21.00, DMAX
The documentary series 091: Police alert continues on DMAX with its efforts to show the daily life of different units of the National Police. On this occasion, the agents will be in charge of investigating human trafficking in different premises. In addition, the force will collaborate with the firefighters to try to put out a fire in the middle of the night in a building where illegal connections to electricity are discovered, a very frequent cause in this type of emergency.
‘The Man Who Would Be King’
22.00, Movistar Classics
The Man Who Would be King. UK-USA, 1975 (130 minutes). Director: John Huston. Cast: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer.
The man who could reign, The pinnacle of John Huston’s adventurous spirit, it is based on a story by Kipling to become a magical film, as well as a new foray by the director into the territory of loser and disillusioned characters who feed on illusions and dignity. The striking images of The man who could reign They pursue two rogues who will be forced to confront the dark side of their dreams of glory and power.
The ‘Catch a Million’ contest is back
22.00, Antena 3
Manel Fuentes is at the forefront of the return of a legendary television contest. The new programs of Catch a million They maintain the mechanics that made the format famous and put one million euros in cash at stake in each episode of the programme. The contestants will have to answer eight questions. The first four have four answer options, but only one is correct. The next three questions will have three answer options and in the eighth and last there will only be two options, one true and one false.
The Nazi economic and political framework
23.40, La 2
Through two reports, The theme night analyzes the Nazi economic and political framework. Nazis and money studies the work of the Minister of Economics and President of the Reichsbank, the German central bank, Hjalmar Schacht, who invented the MEFO bonds, issued by a shell company that was actually a front so that the outside world could not see what was happening. Next, The lost film of Nuremberg recalls how in 1945 brothers Stuart and Budd Schulberg gathered the original files of Nazi crimes, which would serve as evidence in the Nuremberg Trials.
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