Save your weekends for classic movies on WETA TV 26!

Each weekend, TV 26 broadcasts a different movie favorite, commercial-free. Pop some popcorn, settle into your easy chair, and enjoy The WETA Movie.

Airing Friday or Saturday nights and Sunday matinees.

This month's movies:

• May 3:     Hello, Dolly!
• May 10:   Some Like It Hot
• May 17:   The Last Emperor
• May 24:   Strangers on a Train

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Hello, Dolly!

Saturday, May 3 at 9 p.m.
Sunday, May 4 at 11 a.m.

Glittering stage numbers showcase Barbra Streisand as Dolly Levy, a New York matchmaker who can find a mate for anyone — anyone but herself, that is. Determined to marry the wealthy Horace Vandergelder (Walter Matthau), she sets about wooing him. Gene Kelly directed the 1969 musical. (2:10)

Some Like It Hot

Saturday, May 10 at 9 p.m.
Sunday, May 11 at 11 a.m.

The 1959 comedy from director Billy Wilder finds Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon masquerading as women in order to elude irate Chicago mobsters while befriending a beautiful singer (Marliyn Monroe). (2:00)

The Last Emperor

Saturday, May 17 at 9 p.m.
Sunday, May 18 at 11 a.m.

Bernardo Bertolucci's biography of Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, was voted Best Picture in 1987. The film opens in 1950 with Pu Yi's re-entry — as a prisoner and war criminal — into the just-proclaimed People's Republic of China. Through a series of flashbacks, China's last emperor relives his life. John Lone stars as Pu Yi, and Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, and Ric Young co-star. (2:32)

Strangers on a Train

Saturday, May 24 at 9 p.m.
Sunday, May 25 at 10:55 a.m.

Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 thriller, featuring a screenplay by Raymond Chandler — is about two passengers who meet accidentally and plot to "exchange" murders. (1:41)

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