Friday, April 2 – 7:30 PM
Bill Bowers Tribute Double Feature: New 35mm Restored
Print!
CRY DANGER, 1951, Paramount, 79 min. Dir. Robert
Parrish. One of the most wicked and witty revenge yarns of
the original film noir era is also an amazing tour of midcentury downtown Los Angeles. Screenplay by Bill Bowers,
based on Jerome Cady's story. A new restoration courtesy of
the Film Noir Foundation and the UCLA Film and Television
Archive.
NOT ON DVD
TIGHT SPOT, 1955, Sony Repertory, 97 min. Dir. Phil
Karlson. Screenwriter Bill Bowers is back, providing a whipcrack rendition of Leonard Kantor’s stage play about a tough
dame (Ginger Rogers) being squeezed by the DA (Edward G.
Robinson) to testify against a mob boss. Rhonda Fleming
and Richard Erdman in person!
NOT ON DVD |
Saturday, April 3 – 7:30 PM
George Raft Tribute Double Feature:
RED LIGHT, 1949, Warner Bros., 83 min. Dir. Roy Del Ruth. 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.With Virginia Mayo, Raymond Burr and Harry Morgan.
NOT ON DVD
JOHNNY ANGEL, 1945, Warner Bros., 79 min. Dir. Edwin L. Marin. Ship
captain Raft plays straight man to a cast of colorful actors - Claire Trevor,
Signe Hasso, Hoagy Carmichael, Marvin Miller and Margaret Wycherly – as
he pursues his father’s killer through a backlot New Orleans demimonde
cunningly photographed by Harry Wild.
NOT ON DVD |
Sunday,
April 4 –
7:30 PM
William
Castle
Tribute
Double Feature:
HOLLYWOOD STORY, 1951,
Universal, 76 min. Dir. William
Castle. Richard Conte plays a
wannabe independent producer
who buys a vacant studio lot and
gets embroiled in the mystery of
a film director murdered there
many years before. Loosely
based on the William Desmond Taylor case and featuring many Hollywood locations! With Julie
Adams.
NOT ON DVD
UNDERTOW, 1949, Universal, 71 min. Director William Castle brings panache to this
impoverished B-production, enlivening a fairly routine tale of a framed ex-con (Scott Brady Lawrence Tierney’s "little" brother) looking for revenge in the Chicago underworld. Hot dishes
Dorothy Hart and Peggy Dow complicate matters in time-honored tradition. Special guest
appearance by actress Julie Adams!!
NOT ON DVD |
Wednesday, April 7 – 7:30 PM
Andrew Stone Tribute Double Feature:
JULIE, 1956, Warner Bros., 99 min. Dir. Andrew L. Stone.
The husband-and-wife team of Andrew and Virginia Stone
created this suspenseful 1950s version of GASLIGHT as a
vehicle for Doris Day. Here, the vehicle is a jet airliner in
which stewardess Day is trapped by her psychotic husband
(a truly scary Louis Jourdan). A wild "woman in jeopardy"
film, nominated for an "Original Screenplay" Oscar!
NOT ON DVD
BLUEPRINT FOR MURDER, 1953, 20th Century Fox, 77
min. Dir. Andrew L. Stone. When his niece dies, Whitney
Cameron (Joseph Cotten) suspects the widow (Jean
Peters) of his late brother is bumping off family members
for financial gain. A deadly cat-and-mouse game ensues,
climaxing with all the players on an ocean liner.
Thursday, April 8 – 7:30 PM
Gothic Noir Double Feature:
SO EVIL MY LOVE, 1948,
Universal, 112 min. Dir. Lewis Allen.
A widowed missionary (Ann Todd) is
befriended aboard-ship by a
charming rogue (Ray Milland) whom
she takes in as a boarder. Gorgeous
Geraldine Fitzgerald costars in this
perverse and disturbing melodrama
of mind-control and madness.
NOT ON DVD
EXPERIMENT PERILOUS, 1944,
Warner Bros., 91 min. Dir. Jacques
Tourneur. Fresh off his stunning work for Val Lewton, Tourneur (I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE,
CAT PEOPLE) directed this challenging tale of a woman (the incandescent Hedy Lamarr) who
believes her husband (Paul Lukas) is plotting to drive her mad.
Friday, April 9 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature:
THE LOCKET , 1946, Warner Bros., 85 min. Dir. John
Brahm. On his wedding day, a groom (Brian Aherne) is told
stunning tales regarding the troubled past of his bride-to-be
(Laraine Day), including her destructive affair with a tortured
artist (Robert Mitchum). This dazzling and dizzying
psychodrama uses a web of interlocking flashbacks to show
how a woman’s childhood obsession with a prized locket
dictates the course of her life.
NOT ON DVD
BODYGUARD, 1948, Warner Bros., 62 min. Dir. Richard
Fleischer. Lawrence Tierney is an insubordinate copper who
gets framed, turns in his badge and goes undercover to
expose corruption and murder in the meat-packing industry.
Helping him is beautiful Priscilla Lane. This early Richard
Fleischer programmer boasts a breakneck pace and a
screenplay by Robert Altman!
NOT ON DVD |
Saturday, April 10 – 7:30 PM
Broderick Crawford Double Feature:
NEW YORK CONFIDENTIAL, 1955, Kit
Parker Films, 87 min. Dir. Russell
Rouse. A mob kingpin (Broderick
Crawford) runs the syndicate from a
Manhattan high-rise, assisted by a crew
of plug-uglies (J. Carrol Naish, Onslow
Stevens, Barry Kelley and Mike
Mazurki). Complicating matters: a newly
imported hit man (Richard Conte), a
restless mistress (Marilyn Maxwell) and
Brod’s beautifully fragile daughter
(Anne Bancroft).
NOT ON DVD
HUMAN DESIRE, 1954, Sony
Repertory, 91 min. Dir. Fritz Lang. You
can’t really call this a re-do of THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE because
it’s based on Emile Zola’s 1890 novel La Bete Humaine - but then, tales of
tortured lovers tempted to commit murder are timeless, aren’t they? Glenn Ford
and Gloria Grahame rekindle their flame from Lang’s 1953 smash THE BIG
HEAT, and Broderick Crawford plays the loutish cuckold they want to be rid of.
Do we need to note that things don’t go according to plan? Burnett Guffey
supplies the wonderfully atmospheric cinematography.
NOT ON DVD |
Sunday, April 11 – 7:30 PM
It’s a Crooked World Double Feature:
DRIVE A CROOKED ROAD, 1954, Sony
Repertory, 83 min. Dir. Richard Quine. Mickey
Rooney is cast against type as a car mechanic
whose craving for fast cars and faster women
steers him into a blind alley in which there are no
pit stops. Blake Edwards’ crackerjack script is
given vivid life by Rooney’s compelling
characterization and a stellar supporting cast
(Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Kelly). NOT
ON DVD
WALK A CROOKED MILE, 1948, Sony
Repertory, 91 min. Dir. Gordon Douglas. 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 lookalike goatee. Discussion between films with actor Paul Picerni. Mr. Picerni also
will have a book signing of his memoir Steps to Stardom before the films. NOT ON
DVD |
Wednesday, April 14 – 7:30 PM Special
Screening
Los Angeles Premiere! Neo-Noir
EVE'S NECKLACE , 2009, Erickson Films,
80 min. Film noir is a road regularly traveled
by filmmakers, but never has a film noir
exclusively starred... mannequins! Director
Daniel Erickson made the highly unusual
and cost-effective decision to shoot the film,
originally conceived as live-action, with
store-front "dummies," for which he held an
extensive e-Bay casting call. As dread builds
in the film, the impressive feat is achieved of turning an all-mannequin cast into a
sympathetic group of characters.
"A killer bizarre mannequin film noir movie...one of the strangest movies you’ll
ever have the likelihood of ever seeing... a fascinating experiment gone right." Harry Knowles, Ain’t it Cool News.
Discussion following with director Daniel Erickson.
Thursday, April 15 – 7:30 PM
Gothic Noir Double Feature:
AMONG THE LIVING , 1941,
Universal, 67 min. Dir. Stuart
Heisler. Albert Dekker stars as
identical twins who stir up a
Gothic whirlwind of insanity,
family skeletons and murder in a
small town paralyzed by fear.
Penned by Lester Cole of
Hollywood Ten notoriety and
costarring a youthfully lush Susan
Hayward, venerable Harry Carey
and pre-tragedy Frances Farmer.
DARK WATERS, 1944, Films Around the World, 90 min. Dir. Andre de Toth.
Travel down a dark Southern road of perversity as a distraught shipwreck
survivor (Merle Oberon) returns to her family’s estate near the Big Easy. Can she
trust the earnest doctor (Franchot Tone) who tries to shield her from some
exceedingly strange relatives (Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell and Elisha Cook
Jr.)?
Friday, April 16 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature:
CRASHOUT , 1955, Paramount,
89 min. Dir. Lewis R. Foster.
William Bendix, Arthur Kennedy,
Luther Adler, Gene Evans,
Marshall Thompson and William
Talman (as a knife-chucking
religious fanatic) break out of the
pen in pursuit of a stashed
robbery payroll. Distracting from their quest are leggy farm girl Beverly Michaels,
wholesome Gloria Talbott and noir favorite Percy Helton.
NOT ON DVD
CRY VENGEANCE, 1954, Paramount, 82 min. Mark Stevens (THE DARK
CORNER) stars in and directs this brutal revenge melodrama in which a
psychically and physically scarred ex-cop (Stevens) hunts the killer of his family
to the wilds of Ketchikan, Alaska.
NOT ON DVD |
Saturday, April 17
EGYPTIAN THEATRE HISTORIC
TOUR
The Egyptian Theatre is a veteran of
the noir era. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS
RINGS TWICE opened in Hollywood
at the Egyptian in 1946 and GUN
CRAZY was shot in part on Las
Palmas Avenue (you can see the news
stand that was still there in the early
2000's and the white Baptist Church
where Las Palmas dead ends into
Selma Avenue). Take this opportunity
to go behind the scenes on a docentled tour. Then see the 55 minute film
about Hollywood the industry and how
it grew up with the geographic region
still known as Hollywood today.
Directed by Todd McCarthy and Arnold
Glassman. Made exclusively for the
Egyptian
EGYPTIAN THEATRE HISTORIC TOUR & FOREVER
HOLLYWOOD
10:30 AM Behind the Scenes Tour
11:40 AM FOREVER HOLLYWOOD
Saturday, April 17 – 7:30 PM
Co presented with the Roxie Theater:
The Whistler Series Double Feature: New Print!
THE POWER OF THE WHISTLER , 1945, Sony Repertory, 66 min. Dir. Lew
Landers. From radio to the silver screen and then television, The Whistler was
the only episodic mystery series that can accurately be labeled as film noir.
Richard Dix stars as a man suffering noir’s version of the common cold: amnesia .
NOT ON DVD
New Print!
VOICE OF THE WHISTLER, 1945, Sony Repertory, 60 min. Richard Dix is a
terminally ill man lured into marriage by a gold digger (Lynn Merrick) with fatal
consequences for all concerned. Written and directed by William Castle, this is a
must-see in a new 35mm print! Discussion in between films with actor Robert
Dix, son of Richard Dix. Robert Dix also will sign his book Out of
Hollywood: Two Generations of Actors in the lobby at 6:30 PM.
NOT ON DVD |
Sunday, April 18
EGYPTIAN THEATRE HISTORIC TOUR
EGYPTIAN THEATRE HISTORIC TOUR & FOREVER HOLLYWOOD FILM
10:30 AM Behind the Scenes Tour
11:40 AM FOREVER HOLLYWOOD
Sunday, April 18 – 7:30 PM
Femme Fatale Double Feature:
STRANGE FASCINATION,1952, Sony Repertory,
80 min. The first of seven features produced,
written and directed by low-rent auteur Hugo Haas
stars his fatale muse Cleo Moore. Haas plays a
concert pianist led down the road to perdition by
bad girl Moore, with typically painful results. NOT
ON DVD
THE COME ON, 1956, Paramount, 83 min. Dir.
Russell Birdwell. Anne Baxter pulls out all the stops
in her performance as a fetching grifter tying
chump Sterling Hayden into knots in a complex
affair involving her abusive "husband," the suave but scary John Hoyt.
Discussion between films with actress Karen Sharpe Kramer (STRANGE
FASCINATION).
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Lust & Larceny:
The 12th Annual Festival of Film Noir
12 Glorious Nights of Twisted Tales of Murder, Deception, Crime and Revenge! Mo
Not on DVD! Special Guests!
The venerable NOIR CITY film festival returns to the Egyptian Theatre for its 12th year, presenting an astonishing arra
available ONLY on the big screen! We’ve scoured studio archives to assemble a feast of film noir that can only be cons
original 35mm format, in the glorious darkness of a vintage movie palace!
This year’s program features the Los Angeles premiere of the Film Noir Foundation’s restoration of CRY DANGER, a m
fans and lovers of old Los Angeles locales; unearthed gems from William Castle’s pre-1950s resume; a queasy quartet
a George Raft tribute double bill; two new prints from THE WHISTLER film series; stunning femmes fatales (Rhonda F
Trevor, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Hedy Lamarr, Laraine Day, Cleo Moore, Anne Baxter); an amazing assortment of no
of pre-Perry Mason Raymond Burr and William Talman); and the long-awaited reappearance of one of the most soug
films in the noir canon: NEW YORK CONFIDENTIAL! This may be the last chance to ever see these extraordinary film
screen - don’t miss a single one!
With dialogue like this you really have to come:
Him: You models must lead a gay life for yourself.
Her: huh...?
Him: You never have to worry about who's gonna pick up the tab for dinner.
Her: Ah... What's so gay about blistered feet and a bunch of sleazy married guys with ideas that were stale when the R
eating lions.
Plus, all audience members will have a chance to win a pair of tickets to the Geffen Playhouse's production of
ALLEY!
Hosted by Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode. The Film Noir Foundation's mission is to rescue and restore Americ
heritage.
And, when you join the American Cinematheque during the Film Noir Festival as a new member, you will take h
Film Noir DVD.
To view details of the Film Noir Festival on our website click here.
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The American Cinematheque’s public programming celebrates the art of the moving picture in all of its forms -- from the classics, to American independents, th
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