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The movies will screen in Suite 117 at the DoubleTree.
FRIDAY:
| 10 - 11 AM |
12:01 PM Richard Lupoff's film based on his short story of the same title. Richard will introduce the film. |
| 12 - 1:15 PM |
NARROW MARGIN (1952) w/ Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, and Jacqueline White. From Hollywood's "House of Noir" -- RKO Radio Pictures. A mobster's wife turns state's witness against her gangster husband. To make the trial she has to be escorted across country via train. Cop Walter Brown and his partner are assigned to protect the witness. Once the train begins to roll, things heat up. Will they make it? Excellent rare noir penned by veteran script writer Earl Fenton & story by Martin Goldsmith ("Detour").
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| 1:30 - 3:10 PM |
NO MAN OF HER OWN (1950) w/ Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund and Jane Cowl. Barbara Stanwyck shines in this rarely seen and underrated picture. Pregnant and penniless, Helen Ferguson (Stanwyck) is dumped by her boyfriend Steve Morley. On a train trip she meets wealthy Patrice Harkness, who is also with child. When Patrice and her husband are killed in a train crash, Helen assumes her identity. As is always the case in a good noir, things never turn out as planned. Script by Sally Benson and Catherine Turney from the Cornell Woolrich story "I Married a Dead Man."
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| 3:30 - 5:15 PM |
NIGHTMARE (1956) w/ Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy, Connie Russell. Excellent mystery noir set in the shadowy bars and back alleys of New Orleans. Jazz musician Stan Grayson dreams that he stabs a man to death in a bizarre mirrored room. When he awakes he finds bruises and scratches he's confused. Was it really a dream? Maxwell Shane wrote the screenplay from a Cornell Woolrich short story.
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| 5:15 - 7 PM |
NOBODY LIVES FOREVER (1946) w/John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Faye Emerson. Ex-G.I. & New York gambler Nick Blake (John Garfield), returns home from WWII to find that both his girl & and gambling operation have been taken over. After extorting a substantial payoff for his investment, he and a henchman, Al Doyle, leave for California for a vacation. In L.A., con man Doc Ganson convinces them to assist in a scam scheme that involves a target, Gladys Halvorsen ( Geraldine Fitzgerald). Blake falls for the attractive widow and then all hell breaks loose. Script by W.R. Burnett from his novel "I Wasn't Born Yesterday."
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| 7 - 8:45 PM |
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950) w/Sterling Hayden, Jean Hagen, Louis Calhern, and Sam Jaffe. A brilliant heist film set in the backdrop of grimy urban malaise. Crime mastermind "Doc" Riedenschneider, just out of prison has a plan for a million dollar heist. "Doc" recruits the best criminals on the outside. At first the plan goes like clockwork, but eventually the "Laws of the Jungle" take over and things fall apart. Watch for a very young Marilyn Monroe.
Ben Maddow and John Huston wrote the script from the novel by W.R. Burnett.
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| 9 - 11 PM |
DU RIFIFI CHEZ LES HOMMES (1956) w/Jean Servais, Carl Mohner, Robert Manuel & Jules Dassin. In French with English subtitles.
The French Roman Noir literary tradition comes to the screen with "Rififi." Just out of prison, Tony le Stéphanois learns of a planned smash and grab jewel job. Not satisfied with chump change, Tony wants the works and plans the perfect burglary. The resulting heist features a legendary 30-minute sequence with neither dialogue nor music. "Rififi" provided real-life professionals with a working plan causing outright bans in some countries as well as a few heart tremors for the Legion of Decency who banned it on moral issues. Legendary American director Jules Dassin, who plays safecracker "César the Milanese," won the 1955 Cannes Film Festival award for Best Director with "Rififi." French novelist Auguste Le Breton wrote the script along with Dassin which was taken from Le Breton's novel.
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| 11 PM - 12:20 AM |
DECOY (1946) w/Jean Gillie, Edward Norris & Robert Armstrong. Thought to be extinct on tape, "Decoy" recently resurfaced in Croatia from a 1980's TV broadcast. Tricked out in haut-forties snoods, stoles, muffs and dead-serious hats, Gillie cuts a swath through the various men who stand between her and the $400-grand stolen by her gangster boyfriend (Robert Armstrong). Trouble is, he's the only one who knows where it's stashed but won't tell even though he's on death row. The original movie taglines tell it all. "She Two-Times, Steals, Cheats, Double-Crosses... Anything To Get What She Wants... and then KISSES THEM OFF."
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SATURDAY:
| 1:30 - 2:55 PM |
ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1952) w/ Robert Ryan and Ida Lupino. Film Noir icon Robert Ryan plays city cop Jim Wilson, whose many years on the force has finally eroded his calloused exterior. After several incidents of Police Brutality where he loses control, Wilson is sent to the countryside to investigate a murder. There he meets Mary Malden (Ida Lupino), whom he finds attractive, positive and living in a world opposite his own. However, Mary's brother is chief suspect in the killing. And Mary herself is blind. One of the very best film noirs in the genre, from director Nicholas Ray. Script by A.I. Bezzerides & Nicholas Ray and taken from the novel "Mad with Much Heart" by Gerald Butler.
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| 3:30 - 5:20 PM |
KISS ME DEADLY (1955) w/Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Juano Hernandez and Cloris Leachman. In this Cold War thriller, a doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit." Liberal A.I Bezzerides penned the script from a novel by conservative Mickey Spillane and in the process started a literary controversy that still lingers in Hollywood. Director Robert Aldrich created what was once thought of as junk but now considered a cult masterpiece. The original ending was changed, re-shot, released and then after many years changed back. There's nothing quite like "Kiss Me Deadly," one of the last real films noirs in a cycle that was winding down by 1955.
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| 5:30 - 7:10 PM |
THE FALLEN SPARROW (1943) w/John Garfield, Maureen O'Hara & Walter Slezak. Loaded with political innuendos, this mystery noir is set in New York but has its roots in the Spanish Civil War. Former war prisoner John McKitttrick, upon being released, arrives back in New York suffering from the effects of his Fascist captors. He finds that his best friend has recently committed suicide. McKittrick doesn't believe the story and the police are not interested. When another of his friends is murdered, McKittrick realizes that he cannot trust anyone around him -- not anyone. Script by Warren Duff, from a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes.
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| 8 - 9:25 PM |
SHERLOCK HOLMES IS BACK!
THE SCARLET CLAW (1944) w/Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce.
Holmes and Watson are visiting Canada for a conference on cults and are thrust into a mystery of a woman's death supposedly by the hands of a ghost. Their investigation takes them to a small Canadian town called Le Mort
Rouge. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle developed the characters, Paul Ganglien & Brenda Weisberg wrote the story and Edmund L. Hartman wrote the script.
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| 9:30 - 10:35 PM |
CHARLIE CHAN AT THE WAX MUSEUM (1940) w/Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung & Marc Lawrence. Loaded with atmosphere. Chan is called to a wax museum run by a demented doctor. The museum contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard the Pirate. In addition to making wax statues, the doctor performs plastic surgery. Excellent script from John Larkin, who wrote quite a few good mystery films.
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| 11 PM - 12:10 AM |
CRIME WITHOUT PASSION (1934) w/Claude Rains & Margo, Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur. Don't miss the beginning or the end of this 1930s proto-noir with Claude Rains as a successful attorney who believes he is far superior to the rest of society. Freudian psychology is holding court in this bizarre, rarely-seen jewel that could have never been made in a Hollywood studio. Written by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht. Hecht was one of most prolific and accomplished screenwriters in Hollywood history. Both Hecht and MacArthur claimed to have directed it, but in fact the film's cinematographer Lee Garmes helmed most of the film.
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