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BIG HOUSE FILM SOCIETY
Film Noir and Classic Thrillers - screened monthly in Canberra's specialist film society
Putting criminals where they belong - on the Silver Screen!
2004 PROGRAM
(* Some monthly screenings fall over into the following calendar month)
Screening Date: February 1, 2004 - JANUARY *
Chaplin's A Burlesque On Carmen (1915 - screens 1st) PLUS
Duck Soup (1933)
Chaplin and Marx Bros Classics In A Summer Outdoor Screening
Screening Date: February 29, 2004 - FEBRUARY
Kiss Of Death (1947) - Richard Widmark (screens 1st) PLUS
Railroaded (1947) - Anthony Mann
Hardboiled Noir 'Leap Year' Double
Screening Date: March 28, 2004 - MARCH
Pickup On South Street (1953) - Richard Widmark (screens 1st) PLUS
The Glass Wall - Gloria Grahame (1953)
The Cold War In New York
Screening Date: May 2, 2004 - APRIL *
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) (screens 1st) PLUS
Targets (1967 - Peter Bogdanovich)
Tribute to Boris Karloff
Screening Date: May 30, 2004 - MAY
Where Danger Lives (1950) (screens 1st) PLUS
Angel Face (1952) - directed by Otto Preminger
Rare Robert Mitchum Double
Screening Date: June 27, 2004 - JUNE
Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
The Beatty/Dunaway classic that rewrote the book on thrillers
Screening Date: August 1, 2004 - JULY *
Black and Tan (1929) - Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra - live! PLUS
The Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
New York nightlife - and its dark flipside
Screening Date: August 29, 2004 AUGUST
London Can Take It (1940) - Notable 'Battle of Britain' newsreel
made for the U.S.A. (screens 1st) PLUSThe Long Voyage Home (1940) - John Ford's dark prewar meditation
Shadows of war lengthen
Screening Date: September 19 2004, SEPTEMBER
Bunny Lake Is Missing (GB - 1965) (screens 1st) PLUS
Les Diaboliques (France - 1954)
European Psychological thrillers
Screening Date: October 31 2004, OCTOBER
Cat People (1942 - Val Lewton) (screens 1st) PLUS
The Dark Mirror (1946 - Robert Siodmak)
One of these twins is murder!
Screening Date: November 28 2004, NOVEMBER
Bicycle Thieves (1948 - Italy) (screens 1st) PLUS
The Set-Up (1949 - Robert Ryan)
Raw, gritty urban dramas
Screening Date: December 12 2004, DECEMBER
Five Graves To Cairo (1943 - Billy Wilder) (screens 1st) PLUS
To Be Or Not To Be (1942 - Jack Benny in Lubitsch's original masterpiece)
Winning the war - by disguise!
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The Big House Film Society gratefully acknowledges the Australian Center for the Moving Image who administer the National Lending Collection from which we source our films.