Each week repertory films will be presented on 35mm prints and DCP in The Charles’ original 362 seat theatre. There are three showings of a movie each week.
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| THIS GUN FOR HIRE | Thursday, May 20 |
An uncategorizable whatsit from an era when films didn’t always have to be tidily slotted. The action takes place in a small Nevada town called Chuckawalla, where tough dame Fritzi Haller (Astor) runs the local casino. Fritzi’s bad-girl daughter Paula (Scott) starts a romance with gangster Eddie Bendix (Hodiak)... more »
The movie that made Alan Ladd a star, this 1942 adaptation of the Graham Greene thriller pits paid gunman Ladd against the mobster who double-crosses him, with Veronica Lake as the girl next door. Frank Tuttle directed; with Robert Preston and Laird Cregar. (Chicago Reader) more »
