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Thursday, February 12 2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932, James Whale) In the rainy Welsh countryside, Raymond Massey, Gloria Stuart, and Melvyn Douglas seek refuge in a creepy mansion, to be greeted by hulking mute butler Boris Karloff and broadly-accented Laughton, and with household head Ernest Thesiger presiding over “the most awful dinner party in the history of the movies ...
(1939, Alfred Hitchcock) Even as Leslie Banks and his wreckers loot and plunder a ship they’ve lured onto the rocks, newly- orphaned Maureen O’Hara finds the coach doesn’t stop her at her aunt’s Jamaica Inn — but Charles Laughton’s luxury-loving squire Sir Humphrey Pengallan can take her in. Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, author of Rebecca and The Birds.
THE SIGN OF THE CROSS TWO PAGES 1. Sunday, February 22 at 4:35 2. Thursday, February 26 at 12:30 (1932, Cecil b. Demille) Emperor’s mistress Claudette Colbert bathes in asses’s milk; virginal Christian Elissa Landi shrinks from often-cut “Dance of the Naked Moon”; pagan Fredric March races his chariot through the teeming Roman streets; while Laughton’s campy Nero chortles while Rome ...
Thursday, February 19 & Friday, February 20 2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957, Billy Wilder) Agatha Christie courtroom thriller starring Laughton as a crusty barrister defending accused murderer Tyrone Power, who gets no help from wife Marlene Dietrich, with Laughton’s own wife Elsa Lanchester as his unwelcome nurse. Approx. 115 min. 35mm. THU 2:35, 7:00 FRI 12:30, 4: ...
THE EPIC THAT NEVER WAS Date: Sunday, February 22 Showtime: 1:00 ONLY (1965) One of cinema’s most tantalizing unrealized projects: Josef von Sternberg’s 1937 adaptation of Robert Graves’ I, Claudius, to have starred Laughton (in the title role), Merle Oberon, and Emlyn Williams (as Caligula), aborted after epic on-set battles and Oberon’s near-fatal auto accident. Dirk Bogarde narrates ...
Wednesday, February 11 2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION 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 ...
ADVISE AND CONSENT Date: Thursday, February 26 Showtimes: 3:00, 8:10 (1962, Otto Preminger) Secretary of State confirmation hearings, as Henry Fonda and Burgess Meredith re-create Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers amid lengthy single-take shots, most notably with President Franchot Tone on a destroyer; and with Laughton’s last great performance, as an impeccably-accented, sleepily-smiling ...
(1955, CHARLES LAUGHTON) Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish. DCP. WED, MARCH 22 2:00, 7:30 THE FOLLOWING THREE FILMS ARE BEING SHOWN AS COMPANIONS TO MOREAU’S DOCUMENTARY LILLIAN GISH THE ADOLESCENT (1979, JEANNE MOREAU) Simone Signoret, Jacques Weber, Edith Clever. NEW 4K RESTORATION. FRI, MARCH 17 4:30, 9:15 SAT, MARCH 18 5:10 ...
THE SIGN OF THE CROSS TWO PAGES 1. Sunday, February 22 at 4:35 2. Thursday, February 26 at 6:10 (1932, Cecil b. Demille) Emperor’s mistress Claudette Colbert bathes in asses’s milk; virginal Christian Elissa Landi shrinks from often-cut “Dance of the Naked Moon”; pagan Fredric March races his chariot through the teeming Roman streets; while Laughton’s campy Nero chortles while Rome ...
(1944, Jules Dassin) 1634, and Laughton becomes the eponymous spirit when walled in by his father for cowardice; 1943, and tiny lady of the manor Margaret O’Brien realizes occupying GI Robert Young is a Canterville, but can she and the ghost save him from the curse of cowardice? Plus I’m Cold (1954), a “Chilly Willy” cartoon directed by Tex Avery. Approx. 105 min. 35mm.