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First Street Cafe |
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440
First Street Benicia, CA phone (707)
745-1400
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| Wednesday
April 5th - 7:30 pm |
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'DARK PASSAGE'
1947 - Black & White
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With: Humphrey
Bogart, Lauren Bacall & Agnes Moorehead |
| Humphrey Bogart
and Lauren Bacall a few years into their real life romance in a
full-frontal assault film noir with Bogart as a wrongly accused man who
escapes San Quentin prison to a famous Telegraph Hill apartment. This is
classic trench coat and Fedora Bogart, packed with plenty of San
Francisco location photography and loaded with that 1940's atmosphere! |
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Wednesday April 12th -
7:30 pm |
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'THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH
HILL' 1950 - B&W |
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With: Valentina
Cortese, Richard Basehart & William Lundigan |
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Lovely Italian actress
Valentina Cortese in a typically twisted film noir plot. Things go from
bad to weird when Victoria Kowelska survives Nazi concentration in
Europe then arrives in San Francisco to find she's inherited a fortune.
Not everyone is happy about it and they are out to raise Hell. It's fun
and games with the dysfunctional wealthy on one of the richest pieces of
real estate in the Western Hemisphere. More SF location photography.
Directed by Robert Wise
who edited 'Citizen Kane'. |
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More on the films at
www.noirfilm.com |
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| Film Noir @ The
First Street Cafe |
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440
First Street Benicia, CA phone (707)
745-1400
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The Schedule: |
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| Wednesday
April 19th - 7:30 pm |
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'THIEVES' HIGHWAY'
1949 - Black & White |
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With: Valentina
Cortese, Richard Conte & Lee J. Cobb |
Valentina Cortese returns in a very rare
jewel. A left-of -center film shot on location, mostly at night, on San
Francisco's waterfront. Nick Garcos (Richard Conte) returns home to the
San Joaquin Valley from an overseas stint as a merchant marine. Upon
arriving he discovers that his father; an independent produce trucker,
has been ripped off and then targeted for murder by a vicious produce
dealer on the Embarcadero.
In a perennial theme found in film noir, the lone-wolf protagonist is
forced to work outside the system as Nick Garcos sets out to revenge the
wrongs dealt his father. Who in the story, comes to symbolize the
struggles of America's lower working class. Small fry come last until
'Nick' steps in! |
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Wednesday April 26th - 7:30 pm |
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'FALLEN
ANGEL' 1945 -
Black & White |
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With: Dana
Andrews, Alice Faye & Linda Darnell |
When Drifter Eric Staton (Dana Andrews) is
thrown off the Greyhound Bus in a small beach town south of San
Francisco it starts a whirlpool of obsession and desperation that no one
survives unscathed. Including a very hot Linda Darnell in a classic Film
Noir scene not easily forgotten.
This is a wonderfully directed but rarely seen work of Otto Preminger
who had just completed the acclaimed film 'Laura' before starting this
project. 'Fallen Angel' is often favored over 'Laura' by fans of
the noir style. 'Lit and lensed' by Joseph LaShelle, a frequent visitor
to Dark City. Original music by David Raksin (Laura '44, Force of
Evil '48 & The Big Combo '55) Good cast, good crew ... and very good
noir! |
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More on the films at
www.noirfilm.com |
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- All Films
start at 7:30 pm - |
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Call
to reserve for dinner and a table upstairs |
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The First Street Cafe
- 440 First Street Benicia, CA
phone (707) 745-1400 |