Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Hard Boiled Fiction and Killers on the Run
I will be showing "The Getaway" on Monday and "Gun Crazy" on Friday.
Sam Peckinpah's film of Jim Thompson's tough-as-nails novel features Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw as husband and wife fugitives, running from the cops, a psychotic former partner in crime, and some angry Texas gangsters they have double crossed.
"Gun Crazy" is a great Film Noir. Peggy Cummins stars as Annie Laurie Starr, a carnival sharpshooter who is fascinated by the idea of murder.
Produced on a shoestring budget, the film uses techniques that were almost experimental in the 1950's.
I hope you can attend at least one of these great films. Both are a 5:00.
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Looks like a good movie. Unfortunately I can not make it at 5pm. I might see if it's on netflix though.
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