Angel Face / The Big Heat

Two films for the price of one!
(Or just come for one show — your call)

Angel Face (12:30 pm): ANGEL FACE is a Freudian-inflected noir starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons. An ambulance driver becomes entangled with a wealthy young woman who lures him away from his girlfriend and into moral compromise. Simmons’ performance ranks as one of the top femme fatales of all time. On loan from Fox, Preminger added this gem to his string of stellar noirs that started with Laura in 1944. ANGEL FACE is elegant, eerie, and ultimately devastating. And it features one of noir’s most audacious endings. With Herbert Marshall and Mona Freeman.

The Big Heat (2:30 pm): THE BIG HEAT is a revenge-fueled drama from Fritz Lang that’s as hard-boiled as they come. Starring a tightly wound Glenn Ford as an idealistic police detective whose investigation of a crime syndicate becomes devastatingly personal. Memorably costarring Gloria Grahame as a mink-coated moll in perhaps her best-ever performance and Lee Marvin as a sensationally sleazy hood. Based on the novel from Philadelphia Bulletin writer William P. McGivern, THE BIG HEAT is a raw blast of 1950s noir.

ANGEL FACE and THE BIG HEAT will be screened as a double feature, with a break in between films.

Director Otto Preminger / Fritz Lang

Cast Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons / Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando

Country USA

Language English