ST. MARTIN’S LANE

(1938, Tim Whelan) Busker Laughton, befriending runaway orphan and sometime pickpocket Vivien Leigh, makes her part of his street-performing quartet, but when they meet posh songwriter Rex Harrison, who gets the Big Break? Pioneering location shooting on the streets of pre-war London, with pre-GWTW Leigh. Aka Sidewalks of London. Approx. 86 min. 35mm.
12:35, 4:10, 7:50

THE BEACHCOMBER

(1938, Erich Pommer) “Here we go gathering nuts in May,” trills prim missionary Elsa Lanchester to the natives, but what’s she gonna do with drunken, sponging, womanizing bum Charles Laughton? A Somerset Maugham African Queen in the Indies — with stage directing great Tyrone Guthrie as Lanchester’s brother. Aka Vessel of Wrath. Approx. 92 min. 35mm.
2:15, 6:00, 9:35