This terrifyingly prescient film will have you on the edge of your seat right up till its unforgettable conclusion. Hot, fresh popcorn will be served!
The Library is at 307 Hawthorne Ave., Derby.
Dassin depicts the unglamorous world of brutal small-time hoods in all its authentic grunge and sweaty desperation. Also starring Gene Tierney. Hot, fresh popcorn will be served!
The Library is at 307 Hawthorne Ave.
This spy thriller features some of Hitchcock’s most compelling morally gray characters and several of his most heart-stoppingly beautiful shots.
Hot, fresh popcorn will be served!
The Library is at 307 Hawthorne Ave., Derby.
Allen Baron’s brutal, hard-boiled film noir is a true Christmas miracle, made on a shoestring budget with abandoned camera equipment that the director smuggled out of revolutionary Cuba.
Its extraordinary 2nd-person voiceover narration, written by blacklisted writer Waldo Salt and delivered by blacklisted actor Lionel Stander, is iconic: “Remembering. Out of the black silence you were born in pain…You were born with hate and anger built-in. Took a slap in the backside to blast out the scream. And then you knew you were alive.”
Hot, fresh popcorn will be served!
The Library is at 307 Hawthorne Ave., Derby.
Chaney’s character, a legless crime boss seeking vengeance on the doctor who needlessly amputated his legs, has a master plan so galaxy-brained it truly has to be seen to be believed. Suffice it to say that it involves posing as Satan to seduce the doctor’s daughter, amassing an army of “Reds” to take over San Francisco, and organizing the city’s dance hall girls to make thousands of straw hats in a basement.
If you can get on its wavelength, this is the most logical movie ever made. Hot, fresh popcorn will be served.
The Library is at 307 Hawthorne Ave., Derby.
Directed by versatile journeyman J. Lee Thompson and featuring a classic score by the great Bernard Hermann, with supporting performances by Polly Bergen, Telly Savalas, and Martin Balsam.
Hot, fresh popcorn will be served. The Library is at 307 Hawthorne Ave.
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It stars the legends Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in their first collaboration, together with the great Lizabeth Scott.
The picture’s magnificent chiaroscuro photography by New Haven’s own Leo Tover, its crackling script, and its prescient depiction of postwar capitalism as a Kafkaesque labyrinth of absurdity and exploitation, make I Walk Alone one of the seminal films of the period.
Don’t miss it! Hot, fresh popcorn will be served.
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The film is an early collaboration between director Frank Capra and writer Robert Riskin that anticipates many of the themes of their later masterpiece, It's A Wonderful Life.
Starring Walter Huston and an exceptional supporting cast. Hot, fresh popcorn will be served!
The Library is at 307 Hawthorne Ave.
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Every month we will meet to view a classic movie (or two)! This month we have a Leo McCarey double feature: "His Wooden Wedding" (1925) starring Charley Chase and "Duck Soup" (1933) starring the Marx brothers!
The Library is at 307 Hawthorne Ave.
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