Brooklyn Noir Double Feature: 55th Anniversary! Archival Print! THE CASE AGAINST BROOKLYN, CITY ACROSS THE RIVER April 11, 2013

Thursday, April 11 – 7:30 PM
Brooklyn Noir Double Feature: 55th Anniversary! Archival Print! THE CASE AGAINST BROOKLYN, 1958, Sony Repertory, 82 min. Dir. Paul Wendkos. A rookie cop (Darren McGavin) lays it all on the line when he goes undercover to checkmate the Syndicate and police corruption in Brooklyn. This fact-based film, adapted from crime reporter Ed Reid's story, was scripted by uncredited, blacklisted scribes Bernard Gordon (under the pseudonym Raymond T. Marcus) and Julian Zimet, and contains plenty of action and noir-stained ambiguity. Co-starring Maggie Hayes, Warren Stevens, Peggy McKay, Emile Meyer and Joe Turkel. {35mm}
CITY ACROSS THE RIVER, 1949, Universal, 90 min. Dir. Maxwell Shane.
Perhaps Hollywood's earliest treatment of urban youth gangs and juvenile delinquency, with the Amboy Dukes (a young Tony Curtis, Mickey Knox, Richard Jaeckel, Al Ramsen and Joshua Kelley) pitted against a cast-against-type Stephen McNally as a crusading community-center leader in Brooklyn. With the great Thelma Ritter, Jeff Corey, Richard Benedict and Anabel Shaw. This forerunner of better-remembered films including REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE and THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE is very rarely screened. Only at Noir City! {35mm}

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