Killer Movies VII: More Lost Films Noir with Kurt Brokaw

Return to the lost world of film noir, focusing on 1940s and '50s crime dramas rarely seen in video stores or in film retrospectives. Discuss the authors, novels and screenplays, casts and directors. View clips from defining noirs, and explore how these noirs differ from neo-noir movies of the 1960s through today. View scenes from: The Letter, Lady in the Lake, Call Northside 777, Lured, Portrait of Jennie, Walk a Crooked Mile, The Wages of Fear, The Sniper, Pete Kelly's Blues, While the City Sleeps, Odds Against Tomorrow, The FBI Story, Underworld USA, The Girl Hunters and Harper. First Session: Tue, Feb 2, 2010, 7:00pm-9:30pm Sessions: 8 Instructor: Kurt Brokaw Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street Directions Code: LH3FL02-01 Price: $195.00

The Dark Corner
Perky secretary Lucille Ball and her gumshoe boss, Mark Stevens, stir up trouble with murderous art dealer Clifton Webb and William Bendix in this stylish 1945 Manhattan romp.

The Long Night
The police close in on everyman Henry Fonda, aided by Barbara Bel Geddes (in her 1947 screen debut), in Anatole Lit-vak's superbly crafted proletarian noir. With Vincent Price and Ann Dvorak.

A Double Life
Shelly Winters and Signe Hasso discover that Ronald Coleman, playing Othello, can't curb his onstage killer instincts. George Cukor directs Coleman's chilling 1948 Oscar-winning performance.

Kiss The Blood Off My Hands
Few have seen this sleek, absorbing 1948 noir with Burt Lancaster as a fleeing killer in postwar London. With the luminous Joan Fontaine, plus war profiteer Robert Newton in his screen debut.

Criss-Cross
Sultry Yvonne De Carlo is stuck in Dan Duryea's L.A. gambling den, and Duryea's scheming an armored truck heist. Burt Lancaster's the driver in Robert Siodmak's pounding 1949 thriller.

The Steel Trap And Niagara
Teresa Wright can't believe her bank VP husband Joseph Cotton steals a cool million, in this lost 1952 all-location noir. Includes a bonus screening of Cotten with Marilyn Monroe and those 1953 Falls.

The Desperate Hours
Joseph Hayes's taut 1955 best seller/Broadway play/screen hit has Humphrey Bogart's prison breakout gang taking over Fredric March and Martha Scott's home. William Wyler directs.