The best “women behind bars” movie ever made. Sentenced to prison for her role in a robbery that killed her husband, innocent Marie Allen (Oscar-nominated Eleanor Parker), undergoes a degrading transformation in the “joint.” Writer Virginia Kellogg (T‑Men) went undercover as an inmate in several southern prisons to research the groundbreaking and controversial script. Presented in 35mm.

Ruth Roman has one of her best roles ever as Cay Higgins, a hard-as-nails taxi dancer who becomes the object of infatuation for Bill Clark (Steve Cochran), a recently paroled loner who’s never been with a woman. A hotel room, a dirty cop, a gunshot—the perfect jump-off for a fugitives-on-the-lam love story. Feist’s nervy direction ramps up several spectacular set-pieces. Presented in 35mm.

FILM NOIR FOUNDATION RESTORATION. When Rocky Mulloy (Dick Powell) is sprung from prison after serving five years on a robbery charge, he returns to Los Angeles looking to settle things with the crooks who set him up. A shady, wounded war vet (Richard Erdman) and his cellmate’s gorgeous wife (Rhonda Fleming) help him play cat-and-mouse with the local gangster (William Conrad) out to get him. A crackerjack crime film—short, smart, sassy, and full of surprises. Presented in 35mm.

PRESENTED IN 3D!  In this clever twist on The Postman Always Rings Twice, illicit lovers Rhonda Fleming and William Lundigan try to kill her millionaire industrialist husband (Robert Ryan) by abandoning him in the desert. But the victim proves more resourceful than they ever imagined, vengeance fueling his survival instincts. Perhaps the best 3-D movie of its era! Presented digitally in 3-D!

FILM NOIR FOUNDATION RESTORATION. Losey’s greatest American film, from a script by legendary screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, has a cop (Van Heflin) stalking a lonely, affluent housewife (Evelyn Keyes) and deciding to win her in time-honored noir tradition: by knocking off her husband. Don’t miss this opportunity to see one of the rarest—and most unusual—of all films noir in its original 35mm glory!

On its release, critics called this the most bitter, cynical, mean-spirited movie ever made. It still might hold the honor. What’s certain is how scarily prescient Wilder’s tale of media manipulation turned out to be. Kirk Douglas is stupendously rotten as a disgraced reporter reclaiming the spotlight by prolonging the plight of a trapped miner. A genuine masterpiece. Presented digitally.