TV Guide GREAT! movies action Monday

A swindle is revealed when the Baron negotiates the sale of a fabulous treasure on behalf of a foreign king. Sixties drama about the antics of antiques expert and part-time adventurer John Mannering, starring Steve Forrest, Sue Lloyd, Colin Gordon and Paul Ferriss II

Boston faces complete destruction when a freak tornado off the coast bombards the city with huge boulders. A storm chaser tries to save the day by putting into practice an untested theory about weather manipulation, but he also has to rescue his children, who are stranded in the maelstrom. Disaster movie, starring Paul Johansson and Miranda Frigon

Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok work on establishing an east-west route for the pioneering mail service that will allow messages to be sent from Missouri to California in 10 days. However, they have to contend with saboteurs planning to prevent California becoming part of the Union. Western, starring Charlton Heston, Forrest Tucker, Rhonda Fleming and Jan Sterling

A pilot loses his nerve when one of his plane's engines fails on a flight bound for San Francisco, leaving his washed-up co-pilot to fly the craft to safety and save the passengers' lives. Disaster thriller based on the novel by Ernest K Gann, starring John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day and Robert Stack

A pilot loses his nerve when one of his plane's engines fails on a flight bound for San Francisco, leaving his washed-up co-pilot to fly the craft to safety and save the passengers' lives. Disaster thriller based on the novel by Ernest K Gann, starring John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day and Robert Stack

A cavalry officer has to avoid showing preferential treatment when the son he has not seen for 15 years is posted to his fort as a cadet. His estranged wife also turns up wanting to take the boy away, but he is forced to put duty before his family when called on to rescue children kidnapped by Apaches on the Mexican border. John Ford's Western, with John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson and J Carrol Naish

A cavalry officer has to avoid showing preferential treatment when the son he has not seen for 15 years is posted to his fort as a cadet. His estranged wife also turns up wanting to take the boy away, but he is forced to put duty before his family when called on to rescue children kidnapped by Apaches on the Mexican border. John Ford's Western, with John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson and J Carrol Naish

A retired CIA agent returns to duty when a senator is murdered. The former spy believes the killing has all the hallmarks of an infamous Soviet assassin he spent most of his career in pursuit of, and joins forces with the inexperienced FBI agent assigned to the case. Espionage thriller, starring Richard Gere, Topher Grace and Martin Sheen

A retired CIA agent returns to duty when a senator is murdered. The former spy believes the killing has all the hallmarks of an infamous Soviet assassin he spent most of his career in pursuit of, and joins forces with the inexperienced FBI agent assigned to the case. Espionage thriller, starring Richard Gere, Topher Grace and Martin Sheen

A woman searching for her missing father hires an out-of-work merchant sailor to guide her through the streets of New Orleans, where his martial arts skills are greatly tested in a series of encounters with sadistic hunters of human prey. John Woo's action thriller, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Yancy Butler, Lance Henriksen and Wilford Brimley