Rated: M    Runtime: 140 mins.
Good news this week for Film Noir aficionados as well as the merely curious who may have missed some of the line-up playing over the last 2 weeks. Beginning this Friday, May 29, the Roxie presents I WAKE UP DREAMING – REDUX, featuring the most popular programs and sell-outs from Elliot Lavine’s ‘Haunted World of B-Film Noir’ series. It’s not too late to catch the rest.

All programs are double features$ 2 movies for ten bucks.

Schedule

Friday, May 29
THE DEVIL THUMBS A RIDE An innocent young dupe gives a ride to a vicious criminal and unleashes a nightmare of violence and depravity! One of the most blatantly nasty B films of all time, with a singularly fierce central performance from its legendary dark star, Lawrence Tierney. Co-starring Ted North, Nan Leslie, Betty Lawford. Directed by Felix Feist. 62 mins. 1947. 8:00

FRAMED A down-on-his-luck drifter falls into the clutches of a scheming woman who has constructed an elaborate frame designed to net her and her bank robber boyfriend a cool quarter million in cash. All they need to do is put the drifter in the frame. Excellent unsung B noir! Starring Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan. Directed by Richard Wallace. 82 mins. 1947. 6:20 & 9:35.

Saturday, May 30
ALL NIGHT LONG This darkly penetrating film is a modern retelling of Shakespeare's OTHELLO, set in the freewheeling underworld of London's swinging jazz scene. The film stars Patrick McGoohan, Keith Michell, Betsy Blair, Richard Attenborough and features on-screen performances by Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus, Johnny Dankworth and many other great jazz musicians. Directed by Basil Dearden. 85 mins. (2:10), 5:05, 8:00

THE HOODLUM Lawrence Tierney returns as the eponymous title character of this unheralded poverty row noir about an unrepentant sociopath, bent on bringing doom and destruction to everyone in his path! Rarely have an actor and his role meshed so perfectly. Also starring Allene Roberts, Marjorie Riordan, Edward Tierney (the star’s real-life brother). Directed by Max Nosseck. 61 mins. 1951. 3:50, 6:45 & 9:40

Sunday, May 31
NEW YORK CONFIDENTIAL Organized crime gets the film noir treatment in this sensational expose of the murderous racketeers who once held a mighty metropolis in its evil iron-clad grip! B noir seldom got as heady as this rarely seen exciting opus! Starring Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Anne Bancroft, Marilyn Maxwell, J. Carroll Naish. Directed by Russell Rouse. 87 mins. 1955. (1:35), 4:45, 8:00.

PRIVATE HELL 36 From the director of the mind-blowing “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” comes this sharply drawn crime drama about a pair of cops who abscond with a cache of stolen loot. In typical noir fashion, the gravity of their deed drives them to the edge of panic! Starring Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff, Dorothy Malone, Dean Jagger. Directed by Don Siegel. 81 mins. 1954. 3:15, 6:25, 9:45

Monday, June 1
ALLOTMENT WIVES Former Hollywood superstar Kay Francis made a final stop at poverty row to star in (and produce) this sadly neglected B noir! She plays a socialite who secretly heads a nasty gang of women who prey on returning WWII servicemen. Violence, blackmail and murder highlight this sordid tale of shame! With Paul Kelly, Otto Kruger, Gertrude Michael. Directed by William Nigh. 83 mins. 1945. 8:00

PORT OF 40 THIEVES A cunning femme fatale with a penchant for murder has devised a foolproof scheme that could net her a fabulous fortune! Or has she? A sublimely perverse and very rarely seen poverty row noir with a mind-boggling myriad of twists and turns! Starring Stephanie Bachelor, Tom Keene, Lynne Roberts. Directed by John English. 60 mins. 1944. 6:45 & 9:35.

Tuesday, June 2
THE LAST CROOKED MILE Even though she’ll always be best remembered as the demonic Vera in “Detour,” Ann Savage turns in a great performance as a slinky cabaret singer in this energetic B noir about the frantic chase for $300,000 in stolen loot, culminating in a wild scene at a sleazy carnival. Also in the cast are Don “Red” Barry, Sheldon Leonard, Adele Mara, John Dehner. Directed by Phil Ford. 67 mins. 1946. 8:00

THE GUILTY Twin sisters—one good, the other bad—dangerously hold a man’s fate in their hands. But which one is which? This rare poverty row gem is one of the eeriest and most disturbing of the many fine films adapted from the obsessively demented Cornell Woolrich’s provocative pulp fiction. Starring Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Regis Toomey. Directed by John Reinhardt. 70 mins. 1947. 6:35 & 9:15.

Wednesday, June 3
THE SPECTER OF THE ROSE A fascinating foray into the darkly demented world of dancers, in which at least one of whom might (or might not) be a psychotic murderer! Very strange, this is a noir of an entirely different stripe; all on a B budget! Excellent cinematography by Lee Garmes. Starring Judith Anderson, Michael Chekhov, Ivan Kirov, Lionel Stander. Written and directed by Ben Hecht. 90 mins. 1946. 8:00.

THE MADONNA'S SECRET The masterful John Alton provides some astonishing camerawork for this strangely hypnotic noir mystery about a famous painter who can’t seem to get the image of his dead fiancée out of his mind. When his models, one by one, start turning up dead, he becomes Prime Suspect #1. Starring Frances Lederer, Gail Patrick, Ann Rutherford, Linda Stirling. Directed by William Thiele. 79 mins. 1946. 6:25 & 9:45