John Landis’ zany, star-studded 1980 Blues Brothers...

John Landis’ zany, star-studded 1980 Blues Brothers (KTLA Sunday at 6 p.m.) finds John Belushi and Dan Akyroyd trying to save an orphanage by reuniting their old band.

There’s lots of contrivance and even evasion in the 1991 hit Fried Green Tomatoes (NBC Sunday at 8 p.m.), but it has been brought to vibrant life by an ensemble cast. Kathy Bates plays a small-town Alabama housewife who strikes up an acquaintance with feisty Jessica Tandy, who soon captivates Bates with the long-ago story of an intense friendship between a rebellious girl (Mary Stuart Masterson) and another young woman (Mary-Louise Parker), who ran a cafe in Whistle Stop, Ala.

Romance dies hard: Thus, even as the George Armstrong Custer of ABC’s two-part Son of the Morning Star (ABC Sunday and Monday at 9 p.m.) is a depicted as a morally depraved leader who foolishly gets himself and his men killed in the pursuit of personal glory, some of his magic remains. In this grandly staged Western, Custer is well-played by Gary Cole under the direction of Mike Robe; this 1991 film is an adaptation of the Evan S. Connell book.

If Against All Odds (ABC Tuesday at 9 p.m.), Taylor Hackford’s stylish 1984 remake of the film noir classic “Out of the Past,” doesn’t succeed, it’s because its convoluted plot is still a tangle at the finish and because we are on to the central villain at the outset. Keeping it from mattering too much is the sheer intensity of the love triangle created by fading football player Jeff Bridges, bookie-nightclub owner James Woods and enigmatic heiress Rachel Ward.

In Roman Polanski’s Frantic (KCOP Saturday at 8 p.m.), a coolly elegant 1988 thriller about n American doctor (Harrison Ford, near-perfect) chasing his wife’s kidnapers through Paris’ deadlier byways, we can tell that we’re in the hands of a superb craftsman--even though the movie finally doesn’t go far enough.