Film Noir Double Features at Roxie Theater All Week
Roxie Theater has been having a film noir festival, I Wake Up Dreaming: The Haunted World of the B-Film Noir, which started last Thursday and runs through this Sunday. The best part is that all nights are double-features. Here's the line-up:
Tonight: Spector of the Rose, about "the darkly demented world of dancers," and The Madonna's Secret, a mystery surrounding a painter who can't get the image of his dead fiancee out of his head.
Tomorrow night: The Story of Molly X, in which the beautiful widow of a slain gangster takes over control of his mob, and Port of 40 Thieves, about "a cunning femme fatale with a penchant for murder has devised a foolproof scheme that could net her a fabulous fortune!"
Wednesday night: The Last Crooked Mile, "Ann Savage turns in a great performance as a slinky cabaret singer in this energetic B noir about the frantic chase for $300,000 in stolen loot, culminating in a wild scene at a sleazy carnival," and Violence, "a swiftly paced poverty row noir about a pseudo-patriotic scam organization, which is in reality an odious Fascist hate group."
Thursday night: Private Hell 36, "a sharply drawn crime drama about a pair of cops who abscond with a cache of stolen loot," and No Man's Woman, "the mighty Marie Windsor stars as a conniving femme fatale who everyone else in the movie would love to see dead."
Friday night: New York Confidential, "a sensational expose of the murderous racketeers who once held a mighty metropolis in its evil iron-clad grip," and The Hoodlum, "Lawrence Tierney returns as the eponymous title character of this unheralded poverty row noir about an unrepentant sociopath, bent on bringing doom and destruction to everyone in his path."
Saturday night: The Burglar, "From the psychologically dark imagination of pulp paperback novelist David Goodis comes this peculiarly twisted tale of love between thieves," and Witness to Murder, "a woman awakens in the middle of the night and witnesses a grisly murder through her bedroom window."
Sunday night: Repeat Performance, "on New Year’s Eve a woman murders her husband then suddenly wishes she hadn’t," and Hollow Triumph, "after a carefully planned heist goes haywire, a gangster goes on the lam. When he encounters a prominent psychologist who is his exact double, an insidious plan is hatched."