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ADDRESS UNKNOWN and THE GREEN COCKATOO

Thursday, December 10

ADDRESS UNKNOWN
2:25  5:25  8:25

THE GREEN COCKATOO
1:00  4:00  7:00

2 films for 1 admission - tickets available at box office only

ADDRESS UNKNOWN

(1944, William Cameron Menzies) German expatriates/San Francisco art dealers Paul Lukas and Morris Carnovsky keep up a regular correspondence after the gentile Lukas decides to return to the Heimat for business purposes – but is Lukas really getting in bed with the Nazis? Carnovsky’s daughter K.T. Stevens finds out for herself for sure. WCM and DP Rudolph Maté gave the picture a “stark, unsettling look” (Curtis). 35mm. Approx. 75 min.
2:25, 5:25, 8:25

THE GREEN COCKATOO

(1937, William Cameron Menzies) Song and dance man John Mills, guv’nor of the eponymous nitery, helps new-girl-in-town René Ray flee a false murder charge, except neither knows the corpse is Mills’ brother Robert Newton, and both cops and the real killers are hot on their trail.  Screenplay by Graham Greene (his first).  “Sleazy and remarkable.” – Leslie Halliwell.  35mm. Approx. 65 min.
1:00, 4:00, 7:00

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