Double Feature: ODD MAN OUT + VICTIMS OF SIN
Special Features: Intro by Eddie Muller, host of TCM's NOIR ALLEY, on October 12
ODD MAN OUT
Carol Reed's intense manhunt thriller won Best British Film at the inaugural British Academy Film Awards in 1948, and it remains one of the most highly regarded movies ever made in the United Kingdom. James Mason plays fugitive Irish Nationalist Johnny McQueen, who is roped into a heist that goes fatally wrong. Can Johnny navigate his way safely through a nocturnal nightmare of danger and deceit? Robert Krasker's cinematography is as good as his legendary work with Reed on THE THIRD MAN. (Note adapted from Noir City.) DIR/PROD Carol Reed SCR F.L. Green, R.C. Sherriff, based on the novel by Green. UK, 1947, b&w, 116 min. NOT RATED
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VICTIMS OF SIN [VÍCTIMAS DEL PECADO]
A uniquely Mexican version of noir dubbed rumberas, VICTIMS OF SIN is a film that virtually leaps off the screen: its music, characters, confrontations and emotions all boiling over the top. Playing a Cuban dancer in a Mexican nightclub, Ninón Sevilla dances up a storm alongside some of Latin America's top performers — Pérez Prado, Rita Montaner and Pedro Vargas — all while dodging a vicious pimp, defying her boss and rescuing an abandoned baby from the trash. As André Breton is reputed to have said, "In Europe, we talk about surrealism; in Mexico, they live it every day." (Note adapted from Noir City.) DIR/SCR Emilio Fernández SCR Mauricio Magdaleno; PROD Guillermo Calderón, Pedro Calderón; Mexico, 1951, b&w, 90 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Run Time: 221 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, October 12, 2024
Genre: Film noir
