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| Danger & Despair's | |
| Thursday Night | |
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| Returns in September | |
| with 4 new films | |
| Hosted by Film Historian | |
| Marc Kagan | |
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| Rare 16 mm films in the Film Noir style | |
| from the DDKC archives. | |
| Free Admission with a Reservation | |
| See Details Below | |
| Hollywood Hellcat Barbara Payton in 'BAD BLONDE' ( 1953 ) | |
| Thursday Nights at 8:00 pm |
| List of Films & Schedule: | ||||||||
| Thursday September 11th 8:00 p.m. | ||||||||
| Make Haste To Live (1954) Republic Pictures | ||||||||
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w/ Dorothy McGuire, Stephen McNally & Mary Murphy |
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Directed by: William Seiter |
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| Written by : Warren Duff and Mildred & Gordon Gordon from the Gordon's novel 'Make Haste To Live'. | ||||||||
| Photography : John L. Russell ( Moonrise - 1948, The Man from Planet X - 1951, Hell's Half Acre - 1954 ) | ||||||||
| Living quietly in a small New Mexico town, single mother Chris Benson ( Dorothy McGuire ) is hiding from her past. Just when things seem to turn for the better, her psychotic husband shows up with good reason to be upset. Through a recorded message in flashback Chris tells a story that rightfully belongs only in the chronicles of Dark City. Filmed in that wonderful atmospheric style found in many of the Republic Pictures film noirs, 'Make Haste to Live' co-stars Mary Murphy who rode on the back of Marlon Brando's "cycle " in 'The Wild One'. | ||||||||
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| They're beautiful, they're cunning, they're dangerous and THEY ARE ....... | ||||||||
| FILM NOIR BAD GIRLS !! | ||||||||
| Thursday September 18th 8:00 p.m. | ||||||||
| The Sign of the Ram (1948) Columbia Pictures | ||||||||
| w/ Susan Peters, Alexander Knox , Phyllis Thaxter, Dame May Whitty | ||||||||
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Directed
by : John Sturges |
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| Photography : Burnett Guffey ( Framed - 1947, In A Loney Place - 1950, Scandal Sheet - 1952 ) | ||||||||
| Script: Charles Bennett from the story by Margaret Ferguson | ||||||||
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In this ADA compliant entry into darkness, Susan Peters plays wheelchair bound Leah St. Aubyn who writes poetry for a newspaper in London. Set in a decaying mansion on the Cornish coast, Leah cynically manipulates all those around her. She destroys her daughter's chance at true love and drives her son's fiancé to attempted suicide. When this dysfunctional family has finally had enough, Leah becomes even more wicked and disturbed. Previous to her role in "The Sign of the Ram' Susan Peters was nominated for an Academy Award. This film is extremely rare don't miss this one! Marc Kagan will shed light on the career of Susan Peters before the screening. |
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Thursday September 25th 8:00 p.m. |
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| The Come-On (1956) Allied Artists | ||||||||
| w/ Anne Baxter, Sterling Hayden, John Hoyt, Jessie White | ||||||||
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Directed by:
Russell Birdwell |
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| Photography : Ernest Haller | ||||||||
| Script: Warren Douglas & Whitman Chambers from his novel | ||||||||
| Drifter meets Grifter in this steamy story where Dave Arnold ( Sterling Hayden ) gets taken for a ride when he hooks up with the seductive Rita, played by Anne Baxter. Dave's thinks he's hit the jackpot when he first spots Rita coming out of the surf on a tropical beach. Then he finds out that she's involved with a violent and brutal John Hoyt, who's in fact a high class Grifter and just as dangerous as his partner, Rita. | ||||||||
| Will it lead to M-U-R-D-E-R? Things definitely get hotter when the sun goes down in paradise. | ||||||||
| Anne Baxter's performance here comes shortly after her role in Fritz Lang's ' The Blue Gardenia '. | ||||||||
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Thursday
October 2nd
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| Bad Blonde (1953) Hammer Film Productions | ||||||||
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w/ Barbara Payton, Tony Wright, Frederick Valk, John Slater |
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Directed by: Reginald Le Borg |
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| Script: Guy Elmes & Max Catto | ||||||||
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They called me BAD...spelled
M-E-N! - Made of FIRE and ICE... and
everything DANGEROUS!
Notorious actress Barbara Payton basically plays herself in this over the top English film noir originally titled 'The Flanagan Boy'. Johnny Flanagan ( Tony Wright ), a young fighter from the streets of Liverpool is discovered by middle aged fight manager Giuseppi Vecchi. All goes well until, at training camp, Johnny meets his manager's American wife Mrs. Lorna Vecchi who's blonde, built and lookin' for trouble. It isn't long before 'The Bad Blonde' sets her sights on poor Johnny. Like a fly on the spider's web Johnny tries to escape, but it's useless. Barbara Payton, who's real life story reads like a 1950's film noir screenplay, was gray listed out of Hollywood by a few tinseltown mega-stars who were worried that she would ruin their careers with sex scandals. In the mid 1950's she ran off to England in an attempt to save her career and made several films, one of which is 'Bad Blonde'. Eventually Barbara would return to Hollywood and end up on Skid Row. Payton's acting in this film is totally uncanny in that she's playing a reckless calculating blonde on the loose. Ms. Payton, to this day has one of the longest arrest sheets of any actress in L.A.P.D. history including drunk in public, prostitution, check fraud and possession of heroin. So put on your old runny nylons, kick-up your libido and bring your Blonde Jokes to this undiscovered cult classic on Thursday October 2nd. |
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| For more on Barbara see John O'Dowd's interview at THE BIG CHAT | ||||||||
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| The young starlet hits Hollywood | In better days at the Stork Club | At 35 after her arrest |
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| NYC with boyfriend Tom Neal | for drunk in public |
Confidential |
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Film Notes by Dark Marc |
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| Free Admission by reservation: | Doors open at 7:00 pm - Films at 8:00 pm |
| email darkmarc@msn.com | Lobby doors will close & lock at 8:10 pm |
| or call 415 552-1533 for a seat reservation | |
| Lobby Attendent will direct you | |
| NOTE NEW LOCATION: | to the location within the building |
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2nd Street |
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| 2nd Street @ Howard, 2 blocks south of Market | Enjoy Our No Host Bar - Come early for a drink |
| Use Montgomery Bart Station, walk south on 2nd St. | Start your weekend countdown on Thursday night! |
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