Screening Times and Location
All films are DVD presentations, screened at 7:30 p.m. on Friday evenings in the CETES Conference Center, Room B, and presented free of admission charge. NOTE THE 6:30 P.M. START TIME FOR THE 21 OCTOBER, 9 DECEMBER and 13 JANUARY PRESENTATIONS.
| Fort Apache
(U.S., 1948; 125 min.)
Dir.: John Ford
Stars: Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Shirley Temple
A megalomaniac colonel leads his reluctant men into battle against Cochise and his well-prepared tribe.
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*Silent Double
Feature*
Kriemhilde's Revenge
(Germany, 1924; 95 min.)
Dir.: Fritz Lang
Stars: Paul Richter, Magarita Schoen, Theodore Loos
Kriemhilde attempts to avenge Seigfried’s death in the second film in Long’s Die Niebelungen. Based upon the same Teutonic legends as Richard Wagner’s Ring cycle of operas.
It
(U.S., 1927; 71 min.)
Dir.: Clarence Badger and Josel von Sternberg
Stars: Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, Gary Cooper
A bold lingerie saleswoman sets her cap for the store’s attractive owner who inconveniently has a fiancée.
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Pepe le Moku
(France, 1936; 87 min.)
Dir.: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Jean Gabin, Mirelle Balin, Gabrielle Gabrio
A gangster holed up in the Casbah in Algiers emerges at his own peril because of his love for a women.
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The Apartment
(U.S., 1960; 125 min.)
Dir.: Billy Wilder
Stars: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred McMurray
A minor but ambitious insurance
clerk is pressured to loan his apartment to company executives for trysts, a situation complicating his growing attraction to an elevator operator. Classic satire and romance.
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*Halloween Double Feature*
Gojira(Japan, 1954, 1940; 80 min.) Dir.: Inoshiro Honda
Stars: Takashi Shimura, Akira Takarada, Akhiko Hirata
Atomic bomb testing underwater awakens a prehistoric reptile that terrorizes Tokyo. The original Godzilla.
The Wrong Box
(Great Britain, 1966; 105 min.)
Dir.: Bryan Forbes
Stars: Peter Sellers, Michael Caine, Dudley Moore
Two Victorian brothers attempt to kill one another so that one can collect a large inheritance. Classic black comedy.
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Lillies of the Field
(U.S., 1963; 94 min.)
Dir.: Ralph nelson
Stars: Sidney Poitier, Lilla Skala, Lisa Mano
A free-spirited veteran whose car breaks down is enlisted by German nuns to build a chapel and teach them English.
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A Place in the Sun
(U.S., 1951; 122 min.)
Dir.: George Stevens
Stars: Montgomery Cliff, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters
His dream of life with a debutante threatened by his working-class girlfriend’s pregnancy, a young man schemes. Based upon Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.
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Madame Curie
(U.S., 1943; 124 min.)
Dir.: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Walker
The life of the scientist who discovered Radium.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(U.S., 1977; 137 min.)
Dir.: Stephen Spielberg
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Francois Truffault
After encountering a UFO, strangers become obsessed with making contact with the aliens. A science fiction classic.
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The Heiress
(U.S., 1949; 115 min.)
Dir.: William Wyler
Stars: Montgomery Cliff, Olivia de Havilland, Ralph Richardson
A domineering wealthy father interferes in his plain daughter’s romance with a handsome fortune hunter. Based upon Henry James’ Washington Square.
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