PHANTOM LADY

Starring ALAN CURTIS, ELLA RAINES, FRANCHOT TONE and THOMAS GOMEZ

(1944, Robert Siodmak) While Alan Curtis sweats out a wife-murder rap, faithful secretary Ella Raines, friend of Franchot Tone, and police inspector Thomas Gomez, desperately search for his only alibi: the nameless woman he met in a bar. Highlighted by Elisha Cook Jr.’s orgasmic drum solo. From a Woolrich novel. Approx. 87 min. 35mm.
12:45, 4:05, 7:30
 

BLACK ANGEL

Starring JUNE VINCENT, DAN DURYEA and PETER LORRE

(1946, Roy William Neill) To save her husband from the chair, June Vincent enlists the murder victim’s boozing husband Dan Duryea for a relentless search through the seamy side of town for the killer, to find him… where? Peter Lorre’s shady nightclub owner sets cigarette-smoking records in this adaptation of the Woolrich novel. Approx. 81 min. 35mm.
2:25, 5:50, 9:15

“BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED with unpretentious skill… the authentic tang of noir is lent by Duryea, superb in (for once) a sympathetic role as the tormented musician with the faithless wife.” 
– Tom Milne, Time Out (London)