Friday / 4.13.12
Dark Past: Film Noir by German Emigrés
7:00
How do you fit a Cinderella story into a noir slipper? Just cast Robert Ryan as a psychopathic Prince Charming, complete with a baronial mansion on Long Island. His princess is Leonora (Barbara Bel Geddes), a charm-school graduate who hooks her dream husband, only to see the dream end and the nightmare begin. Confined within their opulent manse, her own personal Guantanamo, Leonora escapes to the Lower East Side where she meets a self-sacrificing doctor played by James Mason. Lensed with claustrophobic care by the great Lee Garmes, Caught reminds us that the promises of the one percent go bad ninety-nine percent of the time.
Written by Arthur Laurents, from the novel Wild Calendar by Libbie Block. Photographed by Lee Garmes. With James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan, Ruth Brady. (88 mins, B&W, 35mm, From UCLA Film and Television Archive, permission Paramount Pictures. Preservation funded by The Film Foundation.)
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Single Feature
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$9.50 Adults (18-64)
$6.50 UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and retirees
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Youth (17 & under
Additional Feature $4.00 All Patrons
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