Enough Rope + No Escape
ROBERT HOSSEIN / RAF VALLONE! Two of the festival’s favorite “hunks” — Robert Hossein and Raf Vallone — each get a chance to show something new in their acting repetoire with these two intriguing slices of late-classic period French noir.
Enough Rope / Le Meurtrier
12:30 PM Hossein is a relentless policeman convinced that two murders are somehow connected, but struggling to connect the dots. Veteran director Claude Autant-Lara, adapting a non-Ripley novel by Particia Highsmith, has fun setting up the action as the slow-burn turns into frenzy. (1963, dir. Claude Autant-Lara, 104m)
No Escape / Le Piège
2:30 PM Vallone is a man on the run who stumbles into a torrid affair with a widow (the voluptuous Magali Noel) who is simultaneously being stalked by her former father-in-law (a lecherous Charles Vanel). The English title (No Escape) might seem like a plot spoiler, but trust us when we tell you it’s not! (1958, dir. Charles Brabant, 89m)
Midcentury Productions’ THE FRENCH HAD A NAME FOR IT ’24- Part Two brings a landmark ten-year series to a smashing conclusion with 18 more rare films noirs from France, the actual birthplace of noir! Seven ultra-rarities play in the little Roxie on Friday and Saturday, Nov 29-30, followed by 11 more gems in the Big Roxie from Sunday, Dec 1 through Tuesday, Dec 3. Eternal French film icons — Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Brigitte Bardot — all appear in terrific films you’ve never seen. Join us Friday and Sunday for a special look at the secret career of Erich von Stroheim where you’ll fall in love with “the man you love to hate”.
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