Lindo Theatre's Film Noir Series Presents "Murder, My Sweet" March 2, 2011

Lindo Theatre, at 115 S. Chicago Ave. in Freeport, is showcasing a Film Noir/Hardboiled Detectives Film Series in partnership with the Stephenson County Historical Museum and Highland Community College on select Wednesdays. The next film to be presented is “Murder, My Sweet” on March 2, 2011, at 1 pm and 7 pm. Tickets are $5 and available at the Lindo box office.

Film noir is about what people want, how badly they want it and how far they will go to get it. For movie-lovers, noir is all about style: canted camera angles, dense shadows, and a romantic, doom-laden atmosphere, always in shimmering, high-contrast black and white. Visually stylish and always suspenseful, these dramas are among the very best of the 1940’s and are considered among the greatest films of all time.

“Murder My Sweet,” a 1944 American film, directed by Edward Dmytryk, is based on the 1940 Raymond Chandler novel Farewell, My Lovely. Hard-boiled detective Phillip Marlowe, played by Dick Powell, finds himself ensnared in an elaborate net of murder and deceit. At the center of the mystery is a missing jade necklace and a dim-witted but dangerous thug named Moose, who has hired Marlowe to find his lost girlfriend, Velma. In one memorable sequence, Marlowe finds himself vividly hallucinating after waking from a drug-induced stupor. He also gets beaten up and later seduced by a mysterious hard-as-nails blonde.
The series of Noir/Hardboiled Detective movies has been selected with the assistance of Dr. Ed Finch, executive director for the Freeport Historical Museum, and Alan Wenzel, the Speech and Communications Instructor for Highland Community College. There will be a brief introduction before each movie and a discussion led by Dr. Ed Finch and Alan Wenzel following the movie. Movie-goers are encouraged to stay after the movie to participate in this exchange. The series offers movie lovers a rare opportunity to see four Film Noir classics as originally intended – on a big screen with great sound in an entirely renovated, vintage 1922 theatre. For tickets and additional information, please call the Lindo Theatre at (815) 233-0413.

Mark your calendars for the final screening of the Film Noir/Hardboiled Detectives Film Series on April 6, 2011 – “The Third Man,” and a classic 30’s Astaire and Rogers movie on April 27, 2011 – “Swing Time.”

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