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Fri, Jan 22 - Double Bill Bowers
PITFALL 7:30
LARCENY 9:30
Sat, Jan 23 Matinee - Robert Siodmak Tribute
FLY BY NIGHT 1:00, 4:20
DEPORTED 2:30
Sat, Jan 23 Evening - Bowers and Parrish
CRY DANGER 7:30
THE MOB 9:30
Sun, Jan 24 - Marilyn Noir
NAGARA 1:00, 5:10, 9:30
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE 2:50, 7:15
Mon, Jan 25 - Belita the Ice Queen
SUSPENSE 7:30
THE GANGSTER 9:30
Tues, Jan 26 - John Garfield Tribute
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE 7:30
HE RAN ALL THE WAY 9:45
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Wed, Jan 27 - Bad Girls of Film Noir
ONE GIRL'S CONFESSION 7:30
WOMEN'S PRISON 9:15
Thu, Jan 28 - San Francisco Noir
RED LIGHT 7:30
WALK A CROOKED MILE 9:15
Fri, Jan 29 - Richard Widmark Remembered
SLATTERY'S HURRICANE 7:30
PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET 9:30
Sat, Jan 30 Matinee - Larceny and Lust
INSIDE JOB 1:00, 4:20
ARMORED CAR ROBBERY 2:30
Sat, Jan 30 Evening - Gloria Grahame
HUMAN DESIRE 7:30
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW 9:30
Sun, Jan 31 - Getaway Day
ESCAPE IN THE FOG 1:00, 4:50, 7:00
A PLACE IN THE SUN 2:25, 8:30
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1946, Monogram (Warner Bros.). 101 min. Scr. Philip Yordan.
Dir. Frank Tuttle.
7:30 PM
The most lavish, expensive ($1 million!) production ever created by Monogram Pictures was tailored to the talents of young British ice skating sensation Belita, whose brief Hollywood career coincided with the rise of film noir, making her literally the genre’s “Ice Queen.” Barry Sullivan is her costar in this James M. Cain-styled story of lust and murder, set against the backdrop of a skating revue, which provided the star with several show-stopping routines. Quirky, crazy, and totally unique!
NOT ON DVD!
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1948, Universal. 89 min.
Scr. William Bowers, Herb Margolis Lou Morheim. Dir. Gordon Wiles
9:30 PM
Based on Daniel Fuchs’s novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan in a riveting performance as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia. Director Wiles, normally a production designer and art director, creates an arresting visual corollary for the character’s disintegrating psyche. Ultra rare! See it on the big screen while you can!
NOT ON DVD!
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1946, MGM. 113 min.
Scr. Niven Busch, Harry Ruskin
Dir. Tay Garnett
7:30 PM
“Their Love Was a Flame That Destroyed!” James M. Cain’s 1934 novel — essentially the blueprint for noir —- was so hot, and so wrong, it took MGM 12 years to figure out how to put it on the screen, heat intact. It helped to have Lana Turner and John Garfield playing the sex-starved, ill-fated lovers who plot murder. A huge hit in 1946, it remains one of the most revered films in the genre, and the progenitor of a thousand “erotic thrillers” to follow.
NOT ON DVD!
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1951, United Artists. 77 min.
Scr. Dalton Trumbo (uncredited)
Dir. John Berry
9:45 PM
Garfield gives perhaps his most desperate, impassioned performance in this, his final film. Facing nothing but a dead-end life, small-time hood Nick Robey (Garfield) pulls a simple stick-up . . . but when he shoots a cop, his life spins out of control. Hiding out, he meets a neighborhood girl (Shelley Winters) who brings him home to meet the family . . . whom he holds hostage while plotting his escape. A bitter, blistering film created by a cadre of talents all on the verge of losing their Hollywood careers to the blacklist.
NOT ON DVD!
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1953, Columbia. 74 min.
Scr. and dir. Hugo Haas
7:30 PM
In the 1950s, actor Hugo Haas became a B-movie auteur, writing, directing, and starring in a series of pulpy tales of amour fou in which a pathetic man (usually Haas himself) is tempted and tormented by a voluptuous vixen. In this edition of Haas’s ongoing saga of sadomasochism, the vixen is curvaceous Cleo Moore, who carved a niche for herself as the Poor Man’s Marilyn Monroe in a series of tawdry (but oh so enjoyable) sex-driven potboilers.
NOT ON DVD...YET!
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1955, Columbia. 79 min.
Scr. Jack DeWitt. Dir. Lewis Seiler
9:15 PM
All right, it’s not really noir, but who can resist a good ol’ sleazy women-behind-bars saga, especially one with dishy dames like Jan Sterling, Cleo Moore, and Audrey Totter getting (wo)manhandled by a jealously berserk warden played by Ida Lupino? The setup: The state has built men’s and women’s prisons side by side, with only a wall keeping the genders apart. Pretty soon, more than license plates are being pounded out. A cellblock of terrific actresses have a field day tearing apart the scenery, and each other.
NOT ON DVD...YET!
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1949, RKO [Warner Bros.]. 83 min.
Scr. George Callahan
Dir. Roy Del Ruth
7:30 PM
Witness the resurrection of this incredibly rare, visually stunning “Biblical Noir.” San Francisco truck company owner Johnny Torno (George Raft) seeks revenge on the killers of his priest brother, who left a clue to the culprit’s identity in a missing bible. It’s rife with religious symbolism, packed with indelible supporting players, and features sensational cinematography by Bert (Crime Wave) Glennon and a great score by Dimitri Tiomkin. It took a lot of digging to unearth this 35-millimeter print, so don’t miss it!
NOT ON DVD!
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1948, Columbia. 91 min.
Scr. George Bruce, Bertram Millhauser
Dir. Gordon Douglas
9:15 PM
When a security leak at an atomic energy plant threatens the safety of the free world, an FBI agent (Dennis O’Keefe) and a Scotland Yard inspector (Louis Hayward) track the spy ring to (where else?) Commie-infested San Francisco. Hint to the feds: Look for the big, shifty guy (Raymond Burr) with the Lenin look-alike goatee. This time capsule of escalating Cold War paranoia is rendered in the once-voguish “semidocumentary” style, providing terrific glimpses of 1948 San Francisco.
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