SESSION: Sunday 12th August at 7pm



The Lady from Shanghai

(1947, dir. Orson Welles, w/ Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders)

Michael O'Hara, against his better judgement, hires on as a crew member of Arthur Bannister's yacht, sailing to San Francisco. They pick up Grisby, Bannister's law partner, en route. Bannister has a wife, Rosalie, who seems to like Michael much better than she likes her husband. After they dock in Sausalito, Michael goes along with Grisby's weird plan to fake his (Grisby's) murder so he can disappear untailed. He wants the $5000 Grisby has offered, so he can run off with Rosalie. But Grisby turns up actually murdered, and Michael gets blamed for it. Somebody set him up, but it is not clear who or how. Bannister (the actual murderer?) defends Michael in court. (IMDB)

FILM INFO 3.853.853.853.85(IMDB rating)

Gilda

(1946, dir. Charles Vidor, w/ Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia)

Gilda will start at approximately 8:53pm, and finish at approximately 10:49pm.

Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is saved from a gunman by sinister Ballin Mundson, who later makes Johnny his right-hand man. But their friendship based on mutual lack of scruples is strained when Mundson returns from a trip with a wife: the supremely desirable Gilda, whom Johnny once knew and learned to hate. The relationship of Johnny and Gilda, a battlefield of warring emotions, becomes even more bizarre after Mundson disappears... (IMDB)

FILM INFO 3.93.93.93.9(IMDB rating)