NOIRVEMBER!
3 WEEKS OF NOIR MOVIES ON ONE PAGE!
NOVEMBER 14 | SATURDAY | 6pm MOVIE & DINNER $22/PERSON MOVIE & DINNER $10 MOVIE ONLY Dinner- Roast Pork loin with a sweet cooked apple topping, Baked Sweet Potato, veggie and roll/butter
SCARLET STREET - is a 1945 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang. The screenplay concerns two criminals who take advantage of a middle-aged painter in order to steal his artwork. The film is based on the French novel La Chienne (literally The Bitch) by Georges de La Fouchardière, which had been previously dramatized on stage by André Mouëzy-Éon, and cinematically as La Chienne (1931) by director Jean Renoir.
The principal actors, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea New York, 1934 – Christopher "Chris" Cross, a late middle-aged cashier for a clothing retailer, is fêted by his employer for 25 years of service. After presenting Chris with a gold watch and kind words, company owner J.J. Hogarth leaves the party and gets into a limousine with his beautiful blonde mistress. Chris muses to a colleague about his desire to be wanted by a young woman like that.
The principal actors, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea New York, 1934 – Christopher "Chris" Cross, a late middle-aged cashier for a clothing retailer, is fêted by his employer for 25 years of service. After presenting Chris with a gold watch and kind words, company owner J.J. Hogarth leaves the party and gets into a limousine with his beautiful blonde mistress. Chris muses to a colleague about his desire to be wanted by a young woman like that.
NOVEMBER 20 & 21 | fRIDAY & sATURDAY | 6:00PM MOVIE & DINNER
$22/PERSON MOVIE & DINNER
$10 MOVIE ONLY
HIS KIND OF WOMAN is a 1951 film noir directed by John Farrow and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price, Raymond Burr and Charles McGraw. The plot is based on the unpublished story "Star Sapphire" by Gerald Drayson Adams.
Down on his luck professional gambler Dan Milner accepts a mysterious job that will take him out of the U.S. for a year but pays $50,000. He accepts a $5,000 advance and tickets to an isolated luxury resort on Mexico's Baja California coast, where he will receive further instructions. Milner is attracted to the only other passenger on his chartered flight south, attractive young millionaire Lenore Brent. When he arrives, Milner finds that several guests at the lodge have ulterior motives. He is disappointed to find that Lenore is the girlfriend of famous movie actor Mark Cardigan.
And the plot thickens!
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NOVEMBER 27 & 28 | FRIDAY & SATURDAY | 6pm MOVIE & DINNER
$22/PERSON MOVIE & DINNER
$10 MOVIE ONLY
PUSHOVER is a 1954 American film noir crime film directed by Richard Quine, starring Fred MacMurray, Phil Carey and Kim Novak in her first credited role. The motion picture was adapted from two novels – Thomas Walsh's The Night Watch and William S. Ballinger's Rafferty – by Roy Huggins, who went on to great success creating television series, including The Fugitive, Maverick, and The Rockford Files.
During a bank robbery a bank guard is shot and killed by one of the robbers, Harry Wheeler, who gets away with $250,000. Lona McLane leaves a movie theatre and walks to her car. The car will not start, and Paul Sheridan appears at her window. He cannot fix the car and takes her to a bar while a mechanic makes a repair. They spend the night—and the next three days—together.