THE 22nd ANNUAL FILM NOIR FESTIVAL Produced and hosted by Eddie Muller
There will be a distinctly feminine slant to the proceedings at NOIR CITY 22 running January 24–February 2, 2025, at Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre. The lineup of classic films, featuring 24 movies over ten days and nights, shines a spotlight on women whose cinematic legacy is entwined with the rise of film noir.
Film Schedule
Saturday Matinée, February 1, 2025
Caged
2:00 PM
The best “women behind bars” movie ever made. Sentenced to prison for her role in a robbery that killed her husband, innocent Marie Allen (Oscar-nominated Eleanor Parker), undergoes a degrading transformation in the “joint.” Writer Virginia Kellogg (T?Men) went undercover as an inmate in several southern prisons to research the groundbreaking and controversial script. Presented in 35mm.
1950, Warner Bros. 96 min. Dir. John Cromwell
TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY
4:00 PM
Ruth Roman has one of her best roles ever as Cay Higgins, a hard-as-nails taxi dancer who becomes the object of infatuation for Bill Clark (Steve Cochran), a recently paroled loner who’s never been with a woman. A hotel room, a dirty cop, a gunshot—the perfect jump-off for a fugitives-on-the-lam love story. Feist’s nervy direction ramps up several spectacular set-pieces. Presented in 35mm.
1951, WB. 90 min. Dir. Felix Feist
TICKETS FOR Saturday MATINÉE DOUBLE FEATURE
Saturday Evening, February 1, 2025
CRY DANGER
7:00 PM
FILM NOIR FOUNDATION RESTORATION. When Rocky Mulloy (Dick Powell) is sprung from prison after serving five years on a robbery charge, he returns to Los Angeles looking to settle things with the crooks who set him up. A shady, wounded war vet (Richard Erdman) and his cellmate’s gorgeous wife (Rhonda Fleming) help him play cat-and-mouse with the local gangster (William Conrad) out to get him. A crackerjack crime film—short, smart, sassy, and full of surprises. Presented in 35mm.
1951, Olympic Pictures / RKO [UCLA | FNF]. 79 min. Dir. Robert Parrish
INFERNO
8:45 PM
PRESENTED IN 3D! In this clever twist on The Postman Always Rings Twice, illicit lovers Rhonda Fleming and William Lundigan try to kill her millionaire industrialist husband (Robert Ryan) by abandoning him in the desert. But the victim proves more resourceful than they ever imagined, vengeance fueling his survival instincts. Perhaps the best 3-D movie of its era! Presented digitally in 3-D!
1953, 20th Century–Fox [Disney]. 82 min. Dir. Roy Ward Baker
TICKETS FOR Saturday evening DOUBLE FEATURE
Date: January 24 - February 2, 2025
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