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Naked Alibi Sun, Mar 19 | 2pm | TMT
Sterling Hayden is a roughneck police captain on the hunt for a cop killer in this rarely screened potboiler, partially set on the US/Mexico border. Suspecting skittish baker Gene Barry as a key suspect in a series of police murders after witnessing a hair-trigger interrogation, Hayden tracks Barry to a border town and discovers the other side of this pious, family man. Grahame shines as Barry’s ill-treated, cantina-singing mistress, caught between two worlds. DIRECTED BY: Jerry Hopper. WRITTEN BY: Lawrence Roman. WITH: Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry, Marcia Henderson. 1954. 85 min. USA. B&W. English. 35mm.
In a Lonely Place
In a Lonely Place Sat, Mar 18 | 2pm | TMT
A fading screenwriter (Humphrey Bogart) is the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a hat-check girl. The only person who seems able to supply an alibi is the seductive woman next door: Gloria Grahame in one of her greatest performances as an aspiring actress with a troubled past. A claustrophobic noir from legendary director Nicholas Ray, In a Lonely Place adapts Dorothy B. Hughes’s taut novel of the same name and remains one of the director’s most personal films, partially shot in the same courtyard apartment complex where Ray first lived in Hollywood. DIRECTED BY: Nicholas Ray. WRITTEN BY: Andrew Solt, Edmund H. North. WITH: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid. 1950. 95 min. USA. B&W. English. 4K DCP.
Oklahoma!
Oklahoma! Sat, Mar 25 | 7:30pm | TMT
The Big Heat with Human Desire Sat, Mar 18 | 7:30pm | TMT The Big Heat
Though best known for her noir roles, Grahame shines in this pastoral Rodgers & Hammerstein classic as the coquettish Ado Annie. The sole musical directed by Academy Award– winning Austrian émigré Fred Zinnemann, Oklahoma! tracks the romance between cowboy Curly (Gordon MacRae) and farm girl Laurey (20-year-old Shirley Jones in her film debut) in turn-of-the-century rural South. Brimming with iconic songs—“Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’” and “People Will Say We’re In Love”—rousing dance numbers, and choreographer Agnes de Mille’s surreal dream ballet, Zinnemann filmed every scene twice—once in standard 35mm widescreen CinemaScope and once in the brand-new process of Todd-AO, using 70mm film at 30 frames per second. Tonight’s presentation features a restoration of the film’s lesser seen Todd-AO version. The film received four Academy Award nominations, including one for Robert Surtees’s rousing cinematography. DIRECTED BY: Fred Zinnemann. WRITTEN BY: Sonya Levien, William Ludwig. WITH: Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Shirley Jones, Rod Steiger. 1955. 147 min. USA. Color. Todd-AO. English. DCP.
Grahame is iconic as a fearless gun moll in Fritz Lang’s shocking noir The Big Heat , about a vengeful copper (Glenn Ford) on a mission to take down the gang that brought violence to his literal doorstep. Lee Marvin is unforgettable as a loudmouthed crime boss with a sadistic streak—though Grahame steals the show with her scorching performance. Adapted from a Saturday Evening Post serial, Lang’s taut thriller remains one of his most beloved American productions. DIRECTED BY: Fritz Lang. WRITTEN BY: Sydney Boehm. WITH: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby. 1953. 89 min. USA. B&W. English. 35mm. New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Human Desire Ford and Grahame reunite for this radiantly bleak railroad noir. Ford plays a returning Korean War vet and train conductor who becomes violently embroiled in the turbulent marriage of lusty Grahame and quick-tempered railroad yard manager Broderick Crawford. An adaptation of the same 1890 Émile Zola novel that Jean Renoir made into La bête humaine (1938) with Jean Gabin and Simone Simon, Human Desire is one of Lang’s iciest portraits of humanity’s bestial side. DIRECTED BY: Fritz Lang. WRITTEN BY: Alfred Hayes. WITH: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan. 1954. 90 min. USA. B&W. English. 35mm.
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