Saturday, June 7 11:30am
Monday, June 9 7pm
What was the first action movie? One could make an argument for Henri-George Clouzot’s hot-sweat epic. There are only a few fights or firearms involved as desperate men (led by Yves Montand) stranded in a jungle hellhole seize a shot at trucking volatile nitroglycerin over hundreds of miles of gnarly road, but the two-fisted plotting and relentless suspense feel like a genre cornerstone. -Lee Gardner
1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 1.37:1 B&W DCP 152 min. In French, English, Spanish, German, Italian and Russian with subtitles.
