Killer Movies VIII: More Lost Films Noir

Return to the lost world of film noir, focusing on rarely seen 1940s and ’50s crime dramas. View clips from defining noirs, and explore how these noirs differ from neo-noir movies of the 1960s through today. View scenes from Eyes in the Night, Ministry of Fear, The Killers, The Blue Dahlia, Nobody Lives Forever, Boomerang, Thieves’ Highway, A Place in the Sun, Five Fingers, Manhandled, Shack Out on 101, The Night Walker, Farewell My Lovely, Devil In a Blue Dress and Twilight.

Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson
Lawrence Tierney in the 1945 filming of the FBI’s Public Enemy #1, plus Mickey Rooney and Carolyn Jones in Don Siegel’s vanished 1957 shocker.

Phantom Lady
Cornell Woolrich’s race-against-time thriller follows Ella Raines’ journey to find a Manhattan killer, in Robert Siodmak’s 1944 expressionist noir with Franchot Tone.

Beware My Lovely and The Hitch-Hiker
Ida Lupino’s night, first as a widow in 1952 trapped by a psychopathic handyman (Robert Ryan), then directing (1955) kidnap victims Frank Lovejoy and Eddie O’Brien.

Moonrise
Lloyd Bridges dies in a fistfight with Dane Clark, and Gail Russell helps Dane flee through southern gothic swamps in this sensitive, 1948 backwoods noir with Ethel Barrymore.

Killer’s Kiss and the Killing Stanley Kubrick’s second and third films (1955-56)—a boxer’s NYC rooftop romp, plus Sterling Hayden and Marie Windsor in that zingy racetrack heist scripted by Jim Thompson.

Dangerous Crossing
Michael Rennie watches Jeanne Crain search for her missing husband in this sleek 1953 noir from John Dickson Carr’s radio script, filmed on the sets of Fox’s “Titanic.”

The Ax
Don Westlake’s chilling novel of a downsized middle manager who takes out the applicants for his job one by one, in Costa-Gavras’ wicked 2005 French neo-noir.

First Session: Tue, Feb 1, 2011, 7:00pm-9:30pm

Sessions: 8

Instructor: Kurt Brokaw, MS.

Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street Directions

Code: LH3FL02-02

Price: $195.00