Repertory Series!
Noir 100
Born to Kill
3:45, 7:30 PM
Double Feature
(1947) dir Robert Wise w/Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney [92 min]
Hard-nosed Helen Brent (Trevor) is freshly divorced and heading back to San Francisco to enjoy her new freedom. As she enters the rooming house where she is staying, she discovers a murdered young couple. Trying not to get mixed up in anything, she boards her train home but unwittingly meets the killer, Sam Wild (Tierney), on board, and the attraction is instantaneous.
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Special Event!
Harvard Book Store Presents
Carl Hiassen
6:00 PM
$5 tickets on sale now at harvard.com, at Harvard Book Store, and over the phone with a credit card (617.661.1515). Special Event – No Brattle Passes.
Harvard Book Store is excited to host a reading with journalist and best-selling author CARL HIAASEN as he reads from his new thriller, Star Island.
Having worked as a reporter, investigative journalist, and columnist for newspapers in Florida (he still writes a column for The Miami Herald, Carl Hiaasen?s fiction has always combined the page-turning atmosphere of the thriller genre with hard-hitting commentaries on modern life.
Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen, as she is about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster.
Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her “undercover stunt double,” Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too “indisposed” to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistake
one day only
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Directed by Nicholas Ray.
With Robert Ryan, Ida Lupino, Ward Bond
US 1951, 35mm, b/w, 81 min.
Print from Warner Bros.
A gripping thriller that suggests a melding of D.W. Griffith’s most elemental chase films with Alfred Hitchcock’s late crime films - a link made clear by Bernard Herrmann’s evocative score - On Dangerous Ground is one of Ray’s most complex and rewarding early films. Robert Ryan gives an electrifying, haunted performance as a violent city cop corroded by self-loathing and sent upstate to lead the chase for a child killer as punishment for brutally roughing up a suspect. The city scenes, shot in shadowy, atmospheric black and white, are filled with desperate characters (including a cameo by screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides) in dark alleys and cheap hotels, contrasting with the bright whiteness and natural elements of the country and making explicit Ryan’s physical and spiritual journey away from corruption and towards the healing embrace of the natural world, where, through his relationship with Ida Lupino’s blind sister of the suspect, he may regain his humanity.
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