TUESDAY, FEB. 18
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19
THURSDAY, FEB. 20
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
RAW DEAL
DETOUR
THE LONG WAIT
Anthony Mann • USA • 1948 • DCP
Edgar G. Ulmer • USA • 1945 • DCP
Victor Saville • USA • 1954 • DCP
Dennis O’Keefe busts out of prison hellbent on settling scores with double-crossing gangster Raymond Burr. Along for the ride are good-girl social worker Marsha Hunt and bad-girl gun moll Claire Trevor, duking it out for the soul of this vengeful homme fatale.
Ann Savage’s ferocious performance as “Vera” is at the black heart of this classic — the ultimate in noir fatalism. Tom Neal plays Al Roberts who hitchhikes cross-country to reunite with his estranged girlfriend. Things go from bad to worse once vixenish vagabond Vera gets her hooks into him.
Johnny McBride (Anthony Quinn) is injured in a car ac cident and wakes to discover he has no memory and no fingerprints! Then he discovers he’s wanted for murder! This Mickey Spillane story has one of the genre’s kinkiest climaxes, making maximum use of fulsome fifties femme Peggie Castle.
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
THE KILLING
PHANTOM LADY
ACE IN THE HOLE
Stanley Kubrick • USA • 1956 • DCP
Robert Siodmak • USA • 1944 • DCP
Billy Wilder • USA • 1951 • DCP
You’ll think you’ve died and gone to hardboiled heaven. Or is it hell? Kubrick was only twenty-eight when he unleashed this twisty and twisted masterpiece studded with diamond-hard dialogue courtesy of pulp master Jim Thompson. Sterling Hayden arranges a clockwork racetrack robbery only to learn the hard way what happens to best-laid plans.
Ella Raines is “one hep kitten” as she high-heels her way through the noir demimonde, searching for the one woman who can save her boss from a murder rap. Director Siodmak wrings every bit of shadowy mystery from the novel by master of suspense Cornell Woolrich. New 4K digital restoration!
On its release, critics called this the most bitter, cynical, mean-spirited movie ever made. It still might hold the honor. What’s certain is how scarily prescient Wilder’s tale of media manipulation turned out to be. Kirk Douglas is stupendously rotten as a reporter reclaiming the spotlight. A genuine masterpiece.
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