160 mins |
Rated
PG
Playing as part of Academy's FROSTY FLICKS Film Series of wintery, ice-cold classics September 08-24.
The film noir genre has always had a reputation for its cold-hearted cynicism, which is all the more apparent in this double feature where the tales of shadowy crime and murder move out of the city streets and into the frozen, desolate wilderness! Wrap up warm, acclaimed auteurs Nicholas Ray (REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, THEY LIVE BY NIGHT) and Jacques Tourneur (CAT PEOPLE, OUT OF THE PAST) are bound to thrill and chill you with these two gritty crime classics!
20min intermission in between films.
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ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1951)
dir. Nicholas Ray
82mins
"Why do you make me do it?" New York cop Jim Wilson asks the hoodlum he's about to smash senseless. Jim has seen it all on the city's shadowy streets: killers, thugs, pimps, sadists. And the experience has cost him his soul. Ironically, his redemption may come in his next case, a brutal murder that brings him into the open sky and white light of the countryside and into the arms of a beautiful blind woman. Directed with intensity by Nicholas Ray and featuring a haunting score by Bernard Herrmann (PSYCHO), ON DANGEROUS GROUND is a taut, rapid-paced manhunt with two fine stars at its tortured heart. Noir master Robert Ryan captures Jim's agonized self-hatred. And Ida Lupino burnishes the screen as the sightless angel whose compassion gives him one last chance at life.
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NIGHTFALL (1956)
dir. Jacques Tourneur
78mins
Adapted from the novel by prolific crime fiction author James Goodis (DARK PASSAGE), NIGHTFALL is the story of Jim Vanning (Aldo Ray, THE VIOLENT ONES), an innocent man wrongly accused of murder. On the same night he has a chance encounter in a bar with glamorous model Marie (Anne Bancroft, THE GRADUATE), the hoods he's spent the past year running from catch up with him, determined to recover the money they believe he stole from them. Pursued by both the hoods and law enforcement, Vanning and Marie go on the lam, leading to a desperate chase that takes them from the streets of Los Angeles to the snowy peaks of Wyoming.
Director Jacques Tourneur returns to the noir trappings he tackled so successfully with OUT OF THE PAST for a tale of deception, intrigue and paranoia.
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Playing as part of Academy's FROSTY FLICKS Film Series of wintery, ice-cold classics September 08-24.
The film noir genre has always had a reputation for its cold-hearted cynicism, which is all the more apparent in this double feature where the tales of shadowy crime and murder move out of the city streets and into the frozen, desolate wilderness! Wrap up warm, acclaimed auteurs Nicholas Ray (REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, THEY LIVE BY NIGHT) and Jacques Tourneur (CAT PEOPLE, OUT OF THE PAST) are bound to thrill and chill you with these two gritty crime classics!
20min intermission in between films.
______________________
ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1951)
dir. Nicholas Ray
82mins
"Why do you make me do it?" New York cop Jim Wilson asks the hoodlum he's about to smash senseless. Jim has seen it all on the city's shadowy streets: killers, thugs, pimps, sadists. And the experience has cost him his soul. Ironically, his redemption may come in his next case, a brutal murder that brings him into the open sky and white light of the countryside and into the arms of a beautiful blind woman. Directed with intensity by Nicholas Ray and featuring a haunting score by Bernard Herrmann (PSYCHO), ON DANGEROUS GROUND is a taut, rapid-paced manhunt with two fine stars at its tortured heart. Noir master Robert Ryan captures Jim's agonized self-hatred. And Ida Lupino burnishes the screen as the sightless angel whose compassion gives him one last chance at life.
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NIGHTFALL (1956)
dir. Jacques Tourneur
78mins
Adapted from the novel by prolific crime fiction author James Goodis (DARK PASSAGE), NIGHTFALL is the story of Jim Vanning (Aldo Ray, THE VIOLENT ONES), an innocent man wrongly accused of murder. On the same night he has a chance encounter in a bar with glamorous model Marie (Anne Bancroft, THE GRADUATE), the hoods he's spent the past year running from catch up with him, determined to recover the money they believe he stole from them. Pursued by both the hoods and law enforcement, Vanning and Marie go on the lam, leading to a desperate chase that takes them from the streets of Los Angeles to the snowy peaks of Wyoming.
Director Jacques Tourneur returns to the noir trappings he tackled so successfully with OUT OF THE PAST for a tale of deception, intrigue and paranoia.