Film Noir and Neo-Noir on TCM: October, 2025

Thursday, October 3, 5:30 AM – 2:25 PM

Dangerous Dames Mini-Marathon

5:30 AM

MURDER, MY SWEET (1944): The film that graduated Dick Powell from romantic musical lead to noir tough guy. Raymond Chandler’s detective and knight errant, Philip Marlowe's (Powell) search for a singer name Velma, leads him through a tangled web of blackmail and murder. Along the way, he finds himself embroiled with a wealthy man’s unscrupulous gold-digging wife (Claire Trevor) and the step-daughter that despises her (Anne Shirley). Mike Mazurki gives a standout performance as the mentally challenged and extremely physically powerful ex-con that hires Marlowe to find Velma. “Cute as pants.” Dir. Edward Dmytryk

7:15 AM

MY FORBIDDEN PAST (1951): In turn-of-the-century New Orleans, a beauty (Ava Gardner) with a skeleton in her closet seeks revenge on her old flame (Robert Mitchum) who married another woman (Janis Carter) while away in South America for two years. Dir. Robert Stevenson

8:45 AM

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946): Drifter Frank (John Garfield) takes a job with roadside diner owner Nick Smith (Ceil Kellaway). Frank begins a torrid affair with Nick’s younger and extremely sexy wife (Lana Turner). Betrayal, murder, perversion of the law, and divine justice follow. Based on the novel by James M. Cain. Dir. Tay Garnett

10:45 AM

BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967): In this critically acclaimed and deeply influential classic, the legendary bank robbers and lovers (Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway) embark on a crime spree during the Depression era Dust Bowl of the 1930s and become folk heroes. Their crimes quickly spiral from petty theft to bank robbery, but tensions between the couple and the other members of their gang—getaway driver C.W. (Michael J. Pollard), Clyde's older brother Buck (Gene Hackman) and Buck's wife, Blanche (Estelle Parsons). The film won two Oscars, Estelle Parsons for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Burnett Guffey for Best Cinematography, an additional eight nominations. Dir. Arthur Penn

12:45 PM

OUT OF THE PAST (1947): In this quintessential film noir, small town gas station owner Jeff Bailey’s (Robert Mitchum) past catches up with him when a stranger passing through town recognizes him. He tells his girlfriend Ann Miller (Virginia Huston) about his previous via flashback, of course. Jeff was a private eye falls for the gangster’s moll (Jane Greer) that he’s supposed to find for her lover Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas). She’s allegedly stolen $40,000 from Whit and he wants her and the dough back. As in all good noirs, nothing is really as it seems. Watch for future noir siren Rhonda Fleming as a duplicitous secretary. Based on Geoffrey Homes’ excellent pulp novel Build My Gallows High and shot by legendary cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca. Dir. Jacques Tourneur

Sunday, October 5, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Hitchcock Double Feature

5:00 PM

REAR WINDOW (1954): A wheelchair-bound photographer passes the time of his disability by spying on his neighbors. One day he witnesses a murder. Or does he? This iconic mystery was adapted from a story by Cornell Woolrich and earned a Best Writing, Screenplay Oscar nomination for screenwriter John Michael Hayes. The film earned three more Oscar nods for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Color and Best Sound, Recording. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

7:00 PM

SPELLBOUND (1945): A beautiful psychiatrist (Ingrid Bergman) shields an equally beautiful amnesic (Gregory Peck) who’s pretending to be the new doctor at the sanatorium that she works at. Can she help him recover his memory and find out what happened to the doctor he’s impersonating? This David O. Selznick production features a dream sequence by Salvador Dali. Composer Miklós Rózsa won an Oscar for his score. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Wednesday, October 8, 5:00 – Thursday, October 9, 3:15 AM

Otto Preminger Noir

Except Daisy Kenyon which you should watch anyway

5:00 PM

LAURA (1944): In this film noir based on the Vera Caspary novel, dedicated detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) investigates the death of the beautiful Laura (Gene Tierney), brutally gunned down at the door of her flat. As he interviews her friends and lovers, a complicated portrait of her emerges and he finds himself falling for the deceased girl. Clifton Webb and Vincent Price give outstanding performances as two bickering rivals for Laura’s affections. Joseph LaShelle won the Oscar for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White for his work on the film. Dir. Otto Preminger

6:45 PM

DAISY KENYON (1947) Otto Preminger’s poignant romantic and drama is often mislabeled a film noir due to its inclusion in the Fox Film Noir Collection. We highly recommend you watch it anyway. Joan Crawford gives a terrific performance as the eponymous character, a career woman caught in a love triangle with a charismatic, married man and a traumatized, widowed war vet. The latter leaves the decision up to her even though they married. Like Vincent Sherman’s The Unfaithful the characters are three dimensional and act like grown-ups. Dir. Otto Preminger

8:30 PM

ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959): In this drily witty courtroom drama, based on real events, a small-town lawyer (James Stewart) more interested in fishing and playing the piano then practicing law gets the case of a lifetime when he defends a soldier (Ben Gazzara) accused of murdering the man who beat and raped his flirtatious wife (Lee Remick). Eve Arden once again does a lot with a small part as his long-suffering secretary. George C. Scott earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his role as the District Attorney. Duke Ellington composed the jazz score. Dir. Otto Preminger

11:30 PM

ANGEL FACE (1953): An ambulance driver (Robert Mitchum) romances a beautiful but unstable woman (Jean Simons) who gets him a job as a chauffeur and promises him the capital to open his own garage. Murder and disaster follow. Mona Freeman plays the girlfriend he dumps for better things. Her reaction to his behavior, especially when he tries to come back to her, makes her character transcend the usual thankless good girl roles in noir. Dir. Otto Preminger

1:15 AM

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM (1955): A recovering heroin addict (Frank Sinatra) struggles to stay clean when returning to Chicago’s South side, to old friends and old temptations, after a prison stint. His drug dealer Nifty Louie (Darren McGavin) wants to get his hooks back into Frankie, but his love for Molly (Kim Novak) and his dreams of becoming a jazz drummer keep him on the straight and narrow. When Louie is killed, the cops figure him for the murder and come after him. Dir. Otto Preminger

Friday, October 10, 5:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Noir Double Bill

5:00 PM

HE RAN ALL THE WAY (1951): John Garfield plays a desperate criminal on the run from a robbery that ended with a shooting. He takes refuge in the family apartment of a naïve young woman (Shelley Winters). She falls in love with him, complicating further a tense hostage situation. Dir. John Berry

6:30 PM

DIE! DIE! MY DARLING! (1965): A religious fanatic (Tallulah Bankhead) imprisons her late son's “sinful” fiancée (Stefanie Powers) after she announces her intentions to marry. Dir. Silvio Narizzano

Saturday, October 11, 3:15 PM – 9:00 PM

Film Noir Triple Bill

3:15 PM

KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (1952): Pity poor ex-con Joe Rolfe (John Payne). Trying to walk the straight and narrow, he winds up playing the patsy in a devilishly conceived million-dollar bank robbery. Desperate, he trails the thieves south of the border. There, he tangles with tough guys Neville Brand and Lee Van Cleef, who are as deep in the dark as he is and falls for good girl Coleen Gray—under the suspicious eye of her cop father (Preston Foster). The first pairing of noir dream team Payne and director Phil Karlson (99 River Street) remains one of the great capers of the 1950s. Dir. Phil Karlson

5:00 PM

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1963): In this late era noir, ex-G.I. Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra) slowly begins to realize that he was brainwashed by the Koreans while he was a P.O.W. He soon suspects that his former comrade in arms Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), who is also the stepson of a presidential candidate, is being manipulated by the Communists Angel Lansbury gives a remarkable performance as Shaw’s icy mother. Based on the novel of the same name by Richard Condon novel. Dir. John Frankenheimer

7:15 PM

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957): A desperate press agent (Tony Curtis) stoops to new depths to help an egotistical columnist (Burt Lancaster) in an emotionally repugnant, but brilliant, performance, break up his sister's romance. Suitably noirish cinematography by James Wong Howe and an acidic script by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman combine with an excellent cast to deliver a remarkable film. Dir. Alexander Mackendrick

Sunday, October 12, 5:00 PM – 9:15 PM

Hitchcock Double Feature

5:00 PM

NOTORIOUS (1946): Ruthless but attractive U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin (Cary Grant) recruits party girl Alicia (Ingrid Bergman), the daughter of a German spy who committed suicide in prison, to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in post-WW2 Brazil. In this morally gray but thrilling espionage tale by Ben Hecht, love plays second fiddle to duty: Alicia makes the supreme sacrifice and marries suspected ringleader Alexander (Claude Rains) to aid her lover Devlin’s mission. Rains and Leopoldine Konstantin (who plays Alexander’s overly devoted mum) steal the picture from one of the most gorgeous romantic pairs of all time with their sterling performances. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

7:00 PM

THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956): A family vacationing in Morocco accidentally stumbles on to an assassination plot and the conspirators are determined to prevent them from interfering. Jay Livingston and Ray Evans garnered the Oscar for Best Music, Original Song for the film’s song "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)”. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Friday, October 16, 5:00 PM – Saturday, October 17, 12:45 AM

Angela Lansbury Noir Quadruple Feature

5:00 PM

GASLIGHT (1944): A newlywed (Ingrid Bergman) fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion where her aunt was murdered ten years earlier. Joseph Cotten stars as the handsome stranger who aids her. Charles Boyer stars as the handsome husband who terrorizes her. Angela Lansbury plays the pretty maid who may be in league with Boyer. Based on Patrick Hamilton’s Angel Street. The film won two Oscars, Best Actress in a Leading Role for Ingrid Bergman and Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White for Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari, Edwin B. Willis, Paul Huldschinsky, and earned five more nominations. Dir. George Cukor

7:00 PM

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1945): One of the most famous fantasy stories of all-time is given a sumptuous and sinister telling in this classic MGM film version. Renowned artist Basil Hallward (Lowell Gilmore) paints a glorious portrait of the dashing and callow narcissist Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield), whose ardent wish is that the painting age in his stead. When Dorian realizes his wish has been granted, he embarks on a hedonistic lifestyle that destroys all who dare love him. In only her third screen appearance, Angela Lansbury was nominated for a supporting actress Oscar® for her portrayal of Sibyl Vane. Screenplay by Albert Lewin, based on the story by Oscar Wilde. While not truly a film noir, we think that our FNF followers will enjoy it as our NOIR CITY 14 attendees did. Dir. Albert Lewin

9:00 PM

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1963): In this late era noir, ex-G.I. Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra) slowly begins to realize that he was brainwashed by the Koreans while he was a P.O.W. He soon suspects that his former comrade in arms Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), who is also the stepson of a presidential candidate, is being manipulated by the Communists Angel Lansbury gives a remarkable performance as Shaw’s icy mother. Based on the novel of the same name by Richard Condon novel. Dir. John Frankenheimer

11:15 PM

KIND LADY (1951): Ethel Barrymore stars as a wealthy art collector who takes in a young painter and his ill wife. When another couple (Angela Lansbury and Keenan Wynn) show up, things get ugly, and she finds herself held captive in her own home. Walter Plunkett and Gile Steele received Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White for their work on the film. Dir. John Sturges

Friday, October 17, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM

20th Century Fox Noir Double Feature

5:00 PM

LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945): Gene Tierney gives an astonishing, and Oscar nominated performance as Ellen, an insanely jealous woman. Ellen will stop at nothing to destroy anyone that she perceives as a threat to her being first place in her husband Richards’s affections. The truth begins to dawn on Richard (Cornell Wilde) after a tragic “accident”. When Ellen realizes that Richard no longer loves her, she designs the ultimate revenge. Based on the novel by Ben Ames (a highly recommended read). Dir. John M. Stahl

7:00 PM

BLACK WIDOW (1954): A theatrical producer (Van Heflin) is suspected of cheating with and then murdering a young, attractive and devious aspiring writer. You’d think the fact he’s married to Gene Tierney would have cleared him! Ginger Roger gives an outstanding performance as the actress come diva that lives upstairs. George Raft investigates the murder. Dir: Nunnally Johnson

Sunday, October 19, 3:00 AM – 7:00 AM

Val Lewton Triple Bill

3:00 AM

THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE (1944): This is far from a traditional sequel as it focuses on the trauma resulting from the events of the first film. The survivors from Cat People, Oliver (Kent Smith) and Alice (Jane Randolph) are now married and have a child, Amy (Ann Carter). Oliver fears Amy’s vivid imagination, due to the events leading to the death of his first wife Irena (Simone Simon) whom he believes was driven mad by her belief in her homeland’s legends. When the lonely Amy wishes for a friend, Irena appears. Meanwhile, Amy is also befriended by an elderly neighbor whose daughter envies their connection to an unhealthy degree and who may well be dangerous. Dir. Gunther von Fritsch & Robert Wise

4:15 AM

ISLE OF THE DEAD (1945): Gen. Nikolas Pherides (Boris Karloff) takes leave from the 1912 Balkan War to visit a small island in Greece, where his wife is buried. While there, a plague breaks out—Pherides and a group of travelers are is forced to quarantine there. Soon, locals and foreigners alike succumb to the influence of Madame Kyra (Helene Thimig), who accuses a nurse (Ellen Drew) of being a vampire and the true cause of the recent deaths. The film's script was inspired by the painting of the same name by Arnold Böcklin, which appears behind the title credits. It was written by producer Val Lewton’s frequent collaborator Ardel Wray. Dir. Mark Robson

5:30 AM

MARTIN SCORCESES PRESENTS, VAL LEWTON: THE MAN IN THE SHADOWS (2007): Martin Scorsese narrates this tribute to one of the most creative and imaginative producers of all time who created a timeless canon of beautiful and unsettling films on meager budgets including two supernatural noirs, The Leopard Man (1943) (Dir. Jacques Tourneur) and The Seventh Victim (1943) (Dir. Mark Robson). Dir. Kent Jones

Sunday, October 19, 11:00 AM – 2:45 PM

Edwardian Noir Double Feature

11:00 AM

GASLIGHT (1944): A newlywed (Ingrid Bergman) fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion where her aunt was murdered ten years earlier. Joseph Cotten stars as the handsome stranger who aids her. Charles Boyer stars as the handsome husband who terrorizes her. Angela Lansbury plays the pretty maid who may be in league with Boyer. Based on Patrick Hamilton’s Angel Street. The film won two Oscars, Best Actress in a Leading Role for Ingrid Bergman and Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White for Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari, Edwin B. Willis, Paul Huldschinsky, and earned five more nominations. Dir. George Cukor

1:00 PM

SO LONG AT THE FAIR (1950): In this period piece Brit Noir, a woman (Jean Simmons) searches for her missing brother in Paris when he and the hotel room he was staying in disappear. Of course, no one else believes that he existed in the first place. Dir. Terence Fisher

Sunday, October 19, 5:00 PM – 9:30 PM

Hitchcock Double Feature

5:00 PM

VERTIGO (1958): An old friend hires ex-cop Scotty (Jimmy Stewart) to follow his beautiful but emotionally disturbed wife (Kim Novak) through the gorgeously shot streets of San Francisco. Stewart gives an intensely dark performance as Scotty spirals further and further into romantic obsession. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

7:15 PM

THE BIRDS (1963): Beautiful heiress Melanie (Tippi Hedren) takes a sudden fancy to a handsome architect Mitch (Rod Taylor) who lives in a remote Californian coastal village with his overly affectionate mother (Jessica Tandy) and little sister. Creepily Melanie follows him there and pretends to be an old friend of his ex-girlfriend (Suzanne Pleshette). Even more creepily, after her arrival, the village is besieged by flocks of killer birds. Look for noir toughie Charles McGraw in a supporting role. Legendary animator turned special effects expert Ub Iwerks won the Oscar for Best Effects, Special Visual Effects for his work on the film. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Saturday, October 25, 11:15 AM – 3:15 PM

NOIR CITY Favorites

11:15 AM

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1945): One of the most famous fantasy stories of all-time is given a sumptuous and sinister telling in this classic MGM film version. Renowned artist Basil Hallward (Lowell Gilmore) paints a glorious portrait of the dashing and callow narcissist Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield), whose ardent wish is that the painting age in his stead. When Dorian realizes his wish has been granted, he embarks on a hedonistic lifestyle that destroys all who dare love him. In only her third screen appearance, Angela Lansbury was nominated for a supporting actress Oscar® for her portrayal of Sibyl Vane. Screenplay by Albert Lewin, based on the story by Oscar Wilde. While not truly a film noir, we think that our FNF followers will enjoy it as our NOIR CITY 14 attendees did. Dir. Albert Lewin

1:15 PM

THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN (1960): Time for a proper British heist, what? We meet Lieutenant Colonel Hyde climbing out of a sewer in a tuxedo. Chapped at being cashiered from the service, he's decided to rob a bank using a pulp novel as his manual and a band of stiff-upper-lip miscreants adrift after World War II as his crew. A who's who of beloved UK character actors, including Jack Hawkins, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, (and screenwriter Forbes in an acting role), take their marching orders from Ealing Studios veteran Basil Dearden, for whom this was a career high point. Dir. Basil Dearden

Saturday, October 25, 10:45 PM – Sunday, October 26, 3:45 AM

Miss Marple Triple Bill

10:45 PM    

MURDER SHE SAID (1961): When nobody believes she witnessed a murder, Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) investigates herself along with her friend Jim Stringer, played by Rutherford’s husband Stinger Davis. Based on Agatha Christie’s 4:50 from Paddington. Trivia: Joan Dixon has a small part in the film and would go on to become the definitive Miss Marple in the BBC series that aired from 1984-1992. Dir. George Pollock

12:15 AM    

MURDER MOST FOUL (1964): Elderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder of a landlady. The case has already been closed by the police, but she believes that the lodger convicted in the crime is innocent. As in the rest of the series, her friend Jim Stringer, played by Rutherford’s husband Stinger Davis. Extremely loosely based on Agatha Christie’s Mrs. McGinty's Dead which is actually a Hercule Poirot story (for the second time in the series) and is a jolly good read (and pretty dark). Dir. George Pollock

2:00 AM    

MURDER AHOY (1964): Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) takes to the seas to investigate murder on a naval training ship for delinquent boys. As in the rest of the series, her friend Jim Stringer, played by Rutherford’s husband Stinger Davis. The screenplay borrowed only one element from Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple novel They Do It with Mirrors. Dir. George Pollock

October 26, 12:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Noir Quadruple Feature

12:30 PM

THE BAD SEED (1956): “What will you give me for a basket of kisses?” Based on the stage play adapted from the brilliant novel by William March, Army wife Christine (Nancy Kelly) suspects that her seemingly perfect little girl Rhoda (Patty McCormack) is a ruthless killer. Eileen Heckart shines in her Oscar nominated supporting role as the alcoholic mother of one of Rhoda’s victims. This truly terrifying film will make you look twice at all cute little blonde girls. Kelly and McCormack as well as cinematographer Harold Rosson were nominated for Oscars as well as Heckart. Dir. Mervyn LeRoy

2:45 PM

DEAD RINGER (1964): In this late era noir, Bette Davis stars as twins, the rich and mean Margaret and the other poor and put-upon spinster Edith meet after many years at the funeral of Margaret’s husband Frank. Edith snaps when she discovers from Margaret why Frank dumped her and married Margaret instead. Edith shoots her sister, takes her place and tries to make “Edith’s” death look like a suicide. Edith's boyfriend, police sergeant Jim Hobbson (Karl Malden) and Margaret's lover Tony (Peter Lawford) soon complicates things. Dir. Paul Henreid

5:00 PM

PSYCHO (1960): Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) impulsively embezzles $10,000 dollars from her employer and takes it on the lam. She checks into the Bates Motel, meets the queer but attractive Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), takes a shower and makes cinematic history. A detective (Martin Balsam), Miriam’s sister (Vera Miles) and her boyfriend (John Gavin) all arrive to look for the missing Miriam. Long time Hitchcock collaborator Bernard Herrmann created the rightfully legendary score. The immensely talented old time radio actress Virginia Gregg provides the voice of Norman’s mother Norma Bates. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

7:00 PM

SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943): A young girl (Teresa Wright) fears her favorite uncle may be a killer, Joseph Cotten in the best performance of his career. “Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know, if you rip off the fronts of houses, you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?” This was Hitchcock’s favorite film of his oeuvre, and it is mine as well. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Tuesday, October 28, 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM

Val Lewton Double Feature

11:15 AM

ISLE OF THE DEAD (1945): Gen. Nikolas Pherides (Boris Karloff) takes leave from the 1912 Balkan War to visit a small island in Greece, where his wife is buried. While there, a plague breaks out—Pherides and a group of travelers are is forced to quarantine there. Soon, locals and foreigners alike succumb to the influence of Madame Kyra (Helene Thimig), who accuses a nurse (Ellen Drew) of being a vampire and the true cause of the recent deaths. The film's script was inspired by the painting of the same name by Arnold Böcklin, which appears behind the title credits. It was written by producer Val Lewton’s frequent collaborator Ardel Wray. Dir. Mark Robson

12:30 PM

BEDLAM (1946): Not a noir but we’re including it for our Val Lewton completist. Nell Bowen (Anna Lee), the protégé of Lord Mortimer, wants to help change the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). In response, the head of St. Mary's, George Sims (Boris Karloff), uses his political savvy to have Nell committed. Being within St. Mary's does not deter the courageous Nell and she displays her own manipulative skill to rid herself and the mistreated inmates of the sadistic Sims. Dir. Mark Robson

Wednesday, October 29, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Val Lewton Triple Feature

1:00 PM

THE LEOPARD MAN (1943): Legendary B horror producer Val Lewton strays into noir territory with this suspenseful tale of a leopard on the prowl for human prey in a small New Mexican town. The night club performer (Jean Brooks) responsible for letting the leopard loose and her manager (Dennis O'Keefe), who dreamed up the stunt, began to suspect that a man, and not the leopard, is responsible for the deaths of several young women. Based on Cornell Woolrich’s novel, Black Alibi. Dir. Jacques Tourneur

2:15 PM

I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943): Producer Val Lewton’s take on Jane Eyre focuses on naïve nurse Betsy Connell (Frances Dee) who is brought to the Caribbean by plantation owner Paul Holland (Tom Conway) to tend to his catatonic wife (Christine Gordon). His alcoholic brother (James Ellison) blames Paul for his wife’s condition. In one of the most uncomfortable scenes in cinematic history, a Calypso singer (Sir Lancelot) reveals an embarrassing family secret. Betsy is determined to cure her charge and comes to believe that she is a zombie. Dir. Jacques Tourneur

3:30 PM

CAT PEOPLE (1942): Produced by the legendary Val Lewton, this atmospheric and heartbreaking horror film tells the tale of Irina (Simone Simon), a beautiful and charming Serbian emigree who meets and marries all-American architect Oliver (Kent Smith). She is reluctant to consummate their marriage, and he turns to his friend and coworker Alice (Jane Rudolph) with tragic and frightening results. Producer Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur styles merge to produce one of the greatest films of the genre. Lensed by the noted noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca. Dir. Jacques Tourneur

Wednesday, October 29

British Noir-Tinged Horror

5:00 PM

NIGHTMARE a.k.a. Here’s the Knife, Dear: Now Use It (1964): A young woman (Jennie Linden) is plagued by nightmares of her asylum-patient mother. Upon returning to her family home, the nightmares seem to become real when she sees a strange woman pacing the halls. written by Jimmy Sangster, who also produced the film for Hammer Films. Dir. Freddie Francis

6:45 PM

CURSE OF THE DEMON (1957): An American psychologist (Dana Andrews) travels to England to discredit the occult beliefs of the "Demon Cult." He's aided by a feisty schoolteacher (Peggy Cummins) whose father may have been killed by the Satanists. This suggestive and suspenseful sojourn into the Black Arts is one of the most spellbinding horror films ever made. Dir. Jacques Tourneur