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Force of Evil with He Ran All the Way Thu, Apr 27 | 7:30pm | TMT Force of Evil
DIRECTED BY: Fritz Lang. WRITTEN BY: Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner, Jr. WITH: Gary Cooper, Robert Alda, Lilli Palmer, Vladimir Sokoloff. 1946. 103 min. USA. B&W. English. 35mm. Restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration funding provided by The Film Foundation. None Shall Escape The only Hollywood film made during World War II to depict the Holocaust, None Shall Escape was released 17 months before the fall of the Third Reich. Framed around a postwar session of the International Tribunal of War Crimes, the film uses the trial of an everyman-turned-psychotic-brownshirt (Alexander Knox) to portray the horrors of the Nazi Party. Directed by Hungarian- born Andre de Toth, the film’s screenwriter is among the incarcerated Hollywood Ten: Lester Cole. Both Knox and his co- star Marsha Hunt would also be victims of the Red Scare. DIRECTED BY: Andre de Toth. WRITTEN BY: Lester Cole, Alfred Neumann, Joseph Than. WITH: Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Henry Travers, Erik Rolf. 1944. 85 min. USA. B&W. English. DCP. Red Hollywood Sat, Apr 15 | 2pm | TMT Filmmaker Thom Andersen and American expat film theorist Noël Burch draw from more than fifty features to weave together a portrait of the films from the filmmakers targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Through new interviews with Paul Jarrico, Ring Lardner, Jr., Alfred Levitt, Abraham Polonsky, and others, Red Hollywood reveals how these left-leaning moviemakers were responsible for the studio system’s most unvarnished portraits of 20th-century history from the Depression through World War II and the Holocaust. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Thom Andersen, Noël Burch. 1996. 113 min. USA. B&W, Color. English. DCP. New DCP, courtesy of Cinema Guild. Three Faces West Sun, Apr 16 | 2pm | TMT When a Viennese émigré doctor (Charles Coburn) and his daughter (Sigrid Gurie) make an appearance on the national radio broadcast We the People , they end up solicited by the residents of a dust-streaked corner of North Dakota in need of medical care. Part refugee drama, part contemporary Western, Three Faces West also finds Republic Pictures’ star John Wayne as the collectivist leader trying to encourage his community to go West. Elegantly photographed by future film noir legend John Alton (his first Hollywood credit) Three Faces West is co-written by Hollywood Ten member Samuel Ornitz. DIRECTED BY: Bernard Vorhaus. WRITTEN BY: F. Hugh Herbert, Joseph Moncure March, Samuel Ornitz. WITH: John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie, Charles Coburn, Spencer Charters. 1940. 81 min. USA. B&W. English. DCP. Objective, Burma! Sun, Apr 23 | 2pm | TMT An American platoon led by Errol Flynn parachutes into Burma to attack a strategic Japanese radar station during World War II. When they miss their rendezvous, the squad must trek across the jungles and swamps back to safety. Raoul Walsh’s influential war thriller, shot by the brilliant cinematographer James Wong Howe, was made at the height of the Allies’ engagement with imperial Japan and includes nationalistic epithets against the Japanese. Alvah Bessie, nominated for an Oscar for Writing (Original Story), would soon become a member of the Hollywood Ten. DIRECTED BY: Raoul Walsh. WRITTEN BY: Ranald MacDougall, Lester Cole. STORY BY: Alvah Bessie. WITH: Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias. 1945. 142 min. USA. B&W. English. 35mm.
John Garfield stars in this film noir classic: an indictment of avaricious capitalism set on the borderline between the criminal underworld and decent society. Garfield plays a shady Wall Street attorney who joins forces with a mobster (Roy Roberts) to take over the numbers racket in New York City, even if it risks the safety of Garfield’s own brother (Thomas Gomez). The directorial debut of Abraham Polonsky, working from his original script, Force of Evil captures the bold expressionism of Manhattan, culminating in a fateful rendezvous by the George Washington Bridge. Polonsky, though not a member of the Hollywood Ten, was himself blacklisted. DIRECTED BY: Abraham Polonsky. WRITTEN BY: Abraham Polonsky, Ira Wolfert. WITH: John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor, Howland Chamberlin. 1948. 78 min. USA. B&W. English. DCP. Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation with funding provided by The Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. DCP courtesy of The Film Foundation Conservation Collection at the Academy Film Archive. He Ran All the Way Garfield made his final film appearance in this claustrophobic blacklist classic. The actor plays a petty thief whose botched robbery sends him running into a public swimming pool for cover. Seducing his way into the tenement flat of fellow swimmer Shelley Winters, Garfield holds her hostage in this proto-home invasion thriller. Director John Berry went into exile, while the film’s co-screenwriters, Dalton Trumbo and Hugo Butler, were both blacklisted. Garfield passed away one year after this film’s release from a heart attack. He was 39. DIRECTED BY: John Berry. WRITTEN BY: Hugo Butler, Guy Endore. WITH: John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford, Norman Lloyd. 1951. 78 min. USA. B&W. English. 35mm. Spartacus Sat, Apr 29 | 7:30pm | DGT The first grand-scale production from director Stanley Kubrick, Spartacus remains one of the most visually epic films produced on 70mm. Producer Kirk Douglas stars as the brazen gladiator who leads his enslaved colleagues in an uprising against their Roman oppressors. Packed with memorable turns from a stunning cast—Sir Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Tony Curtis, Nina Foch, Herbert Lom, and Academy Award–winner Peter Ustinov—plus superlative production value, Spartacus garnered a total of four Academy Award wins including Art Direction, Costume Design, and Cinematography, Color. The film is also the first time since 1950 that a member of the Hollywood Ten, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, received an onscreen writing credit, in effect helping to break the blacklist. DIRECTED BY: Stanley Kubrick. WRITTEN BY: Dalton Trumbo. WITH: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton. 1960. 195 min. USA. Color. 70mm. New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Salt of the Earth Sun, Apr 30 | 2pm | TMT Made by three blacklisted filmmakers—director Herbert J. Biberman, producer Paul Jarrico, and writer Michael Wilson— Salt of the Earth depicts the struggle for fair wages of Chicano workers and their wives in a New Mexico zinc mine. Working with a largely non-professional cast, many of whom were involved in the protests that inspired the film, Salt of the Earth was also produced with the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. DIRECTED BY: Herbert J. Biberman. WRITTEN BY: Michael Wilson. WITH: Will Geer, David Wolfe, David Sarvis, Mervin Williams. 1954. 94 min. USA. B&W. 35mm. Preserved by The Museum of Modern Art.
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