1950’s in Black and White

Otto Preminger’s acclaimed account of the courtroom battle waged by a small- town attorney in the defense of an Army lieutenant accused of murdering his wife’s assailant. Several Oscar nominations including Best Picture!

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed, is truly a standalone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum (Cape Fear, The Friends of Eddie Coyle) as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by Shelley Winters (A Place in the Sun, The Diary of Anne Frank) are uncovered by her terrified young children. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this ethereal, expressionistic American classic – also featuring the contributions of actress Lillian Gish (Intolerance, Duel in the Sun) and writer James Agee, is cinema’s quirkiest rendering of the battle between good and evil.

A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice, Rashomon is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. Four people give different accounts of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife, which director Akira Kurosawa presents with striking imagery and an ingenious use of flashbacks. This eloquent masterwork and international sensation revolutionized film language and introduced Japanese cinema—and a commanding new star by the name of Toshiro Mifune—to the Western world. Rashomon was restored by the Academy Film Archive, the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and Kadokawa Pictures, Inc. Funding provided by Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation and The Film Foundation.

First rate look at race relations as they affect two convicts chained together and on the lam. Oscar nominations for all four stars and Best Picture!

Classic creature feature about an Amazon expedition that encounters a half-human, half-fish monster.

Comedy/drama about POWs in a German prison camp during WWII trying to survive as well as deal with a potential spy in their midst.

A psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder.