A tribute to the American B movies of the 1930s and 1940s, a mix of noir, crime and thriller.
Thursday, April 10 – 4 pm
Behind Locked Doors by Budd Boetticher
1948 / United States / Fiction / 60′
Suspecting that a judge, wanted by the police, has taken refuge in an insane asylum, a journalist asks a private detective to break into the institution, posing as both her husband and a patient.
Friday, April 11 – 6.30 pm
The Man they Could not Hang by Nick Grindé
1939 / United States / Fiction / 62′
Dr. Savaard, a mad scientist, has discovered a method of raising the dead through a scientific experiment. Denounced by his assistant’s girlfriend, Savaard is arrested and sentenced to be hanged. Before his execution, he swears revenge against the judge, the prosecutor and the jury for this injustice. After he is hanged, he is resurrected by his assistant, who uses his technique. Dr Savaard can now take his revenge…
Saturday, April 12 – 2 pm
My Name is Julia Ross by Joseph H. Lewis
1945 / United States / Fiction / 62′
Julia Ross has just been hired as a secretary by a wealthy widow, Mrs Hughes, but she is drugged and wakes up in an unknown place in Cornwall. She is told that she is Mrs Hughes’ daughter-in-law and that she has just been released from a psychiatric hospital.