Enjoy the Film Noir movie genre with these great movies based on books. Drawings will be held for paperback copies of the books to be given away at these showings!
Join us in the Central Library Auditorium on Monday nights!
September 13th at 6:30 pm
Double Indemnity
Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray and Edward G. Robinson
Directed by Billy Wilder. Based on the book by James M. Cain.
September 20th at 6:30 pm
The Asphalt Jungle
Starring Sterling Hayden, James Whitmore, Marilyn Monroe, and Sam Jaffe
Directed by John Huston. Based on the book by W. R. Burnett.
September 27th at 7:00 pm
Sweet Smell of Success
Starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis
Directed by Alexander Mackendrick. Based on the book by Ernest Lehman.
October 4th at 7:00 pm
The Lady From Shanghai
Starring Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth
Directed by Orson Welles. Based on the book If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King.
If you enjoy movies like these, then you will definitely enjoy On the Same Page 2010! The community is reading The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett, and plan to view at least one special showing of the movie.