Belding Area School District recently issued the following announcement.
Name: Edmund Goulding’s NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947)
Date: Friday, February 21, 2020 at 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM EST
Location: The Carolina Theatre of Durham
Details
This is the 1st half of a double feature that begins at 7pm and includes Boris Ingster’s STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR as the 2nd film.
Tickets are $9.50 for the double feature and go onsale November 15th!
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21
Edmund Goulding’s NIGHTMARE ALLEY
(1947, 110 min)
Stan Carlisle (Tyrone Power) is a lowlife working in a carnival. Knowing a good con when he sees one, he learns the tricks of a mind-reading act from Zeena (Joan Blondell), then tosses her aside. In time, he becomes “The Great Stanton”, star attraction of swanky nightclubs and the darling of society. It's all a con, but soon he comes to the attention of a devious high-society psychiatrist (Helen Walker) with an agenda of her own.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idlYaKQ1yjw
Followed 15 minutes later by:
Boris Ingster’s STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR
(1940, 64 min)
Here is the little B picture that launched one of the greatest movements in cinema history: film noir. Peter Lorre plays the eerie title role in this gem about a reporter (John McGuire) whose testimony sentences a small-time loser (Elisha Cook Jr.) to the electric chair. When the reporter himself is fingered in a second murder, he realizes both crimes are the work of a furtive stranger---but will anyone believe him?
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UZtswikx34
OFFICIAL SERIES WEBSITE: http://www.carolinatheatre.org/films/festivals/retro-film-series-20th-anniversary
Original source here.
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