Lizabeth Scott in Desert Fury (1947), showing March 24 as part of Noir City Hollywood.
The Film Noir Foundation celebrates the 25th Anniversary of Noir City Hollywood with a return to Hollywood’s beautiful restored Egyptian Theatre March 22 through 31, demonstrating that “Darkness Has No Borders” with a look at sinister, shadowy crime around the world. Several of the screenings include allegorical double features that pair familar English language titles with international ones, a double dose of dark and forbidding themes, emotions, and scoundrels.
Noir City allow sees the Los Angeles debut of two stunning restorations, opening night’s 1952 Argentinian film “Never Open That Door” and the 1967 French color film “Le Samourai,” the closing night presentation. Other special delights include a screening of the bleak, 1947 classic noir “Nightmare Alley” starring Tyrone Power Jr. in a rare nitrate print, as well as a presentation of an eye-popping Technicolor print of the colorful, over-the-top 1947 film “Desert Fury, which Czar of Noir Eddie Muller calls “the gayest movie ever made in Hollywood’s Golden Era.”
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This week’s mystery movie was the 1940 Warner Bros. picture Father Is a Prince, with Grant Mitchell, Nana Bryant, John Litel, George Reeves, Jan Clayton and Lee Patrick.
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