Restored Film Noir classics with a special introduction by Paul Karasik. Paul has selected three films starring Noir mainstay Richard Widmark for this screening series.
Join us in the lobby beforehand for a glass of Pinot Noir and Dark Chocolate.
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark), inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy (Jean Peters) and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey (Richard Kiley), to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.
“Insanely slangy, deliriously hard-boiled noir…” – The New York Review of Books
“This atmospheric Cold War crime picture is a class act.” – Times UK
Paul Karasik has selected these films as prime examples of Must-See Film Noir. Paul is an Eisner Award-winning cartoonist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker and whose graphic novels have been translated worldwide.
