Fall/Winter Film Series - 2012
The Toronto Film Society would like to welcome you to the 2012 Fall/Winter Film series. As usual we are offering two sets of 14 films in 7 double bills at The Carlton Cinema. Our Monday night series begins at 7:30pm sharp and our Sunday matinee series begin at 2:00pm sharp and feature films for the "film buffs" in all of us. We are looking forward to seeing you there.
Sunday Matinee Film Buffs
Location: Carlton Cinema at 20 Carlton Street. The NE corner of Yonge and
College.
Screening Time: 2:00pm
Cost: Series Membership of 14 films for $85 (that's less that $5.75 per film
when you buy the full series)
Monday Night Film Buffs
Location: Carlton Cinema at 20 Carlton Street. The NE corner of Yonge and
College.
Screening Time: 7:30pm
Cost: Series Membership of 14 films for $85 (that's less that $5.75 per film
when you buy the full series)
Please Note:
- Regular Carlton Cinema box office pricing will not apply to Toronto Film Society screenings.
- Your T.F.S. membership card will get you a discount at any of The Carlon's regular screenings thoughout the year.
- TTC: College subway and streetcar stop just steps away.
- PARKING: Lot parking close by on Church Street, limited street parking out front.
Sunday Matinee - Programme 1 - September 30th
Oliver Twist - (1922) - 77 min
| Director: | Frank Lloyd |
| Cast: | Jackie Cooper |
| Lon Chaney | |
| Gladys Brockwell |
A fine silent version of Dickens classic with a good performance by Jackie Coogan who was then at the height of his juvenile stardom, and a striking one by Chaney, as Fagan. With added musical score.
The Pickwick Papers - (1952) - 109 min
| Director: | Noel Langley |
| Cast: | James Hayter |
| James Donald | |
| Hermoine Gingold | |
| Joyce Grenfell |
Dickens first and most comic novel is brought to the screen with a talented assortment of British performers romping through the adventures of the Pickwick Club. Touching and hilarious.
Sunday Matinee - Programme 2 - November 4th
Behind Locked Doors - (1948) - 62 min
| Director: | Bud Boetticher |
| Cast: | Richard Carlson |
| Lucille Bremer | |
| Douglas Fowley |
A neat grade-B film noir about an investigator who checks out a sanatorium where a missing judge is being held. A suspenseful and well-acted thriller.
Penthouse - (1933) - 90 min
| Director: | W.S. Van Dyke |
| Cast: | Warner Baxter |
| Myrna Loy | |
| Phillips Holmes | |
| Charles Butterworth |
Baxter’s a mouthpiece who’s been dumped by the mob and Myrna’s a call-girl who can clear him of a trumped-up murder charge. Star chemistry at its most bewitching in this terrific comedy-melodrama.
Sunday Matinee - Programme 3 - December 9th
Theodora Goes Wild - (1936) - 94 min
| Director: | Richard Boleslawski |
| Cast: | Irene Dunne |
| Melvyn Douglas | |
| Thomas Mitchell | |
| Spring Byington |
Lots of funny twists in the story of a small-town librarian who writes a steamy best- seller about the secret life of small towns. Irene Dunne’s first comedy and it’s terrific!
It's Love I'm After - (1937) - 90 min
| Director: | Archie Mayo |
| Cast: | Bette Davis |
| Leslie Howard | |
| Olivia de Havilland | |
| Eric Blore |
A daffy screwball comedy about a battling theatrical couple who never quite make it to the alter. de Havilland’s infatuation with Howard’s ego-struck actor provides the spark that triggers an explosion.
Sunday Matinee - Programme 4 - January 20th
The Gangster - (1947) - 84 min
| Director: | Gordon Wiles |
| Cast: | Barry Sullivan |
| Joan Loring | |
| Akim Tamiroff | |
| Harry Morgan |
Sullivan does a fine job as a mob leader who lets his control slip, and his self- confidence is overwhelmed by insecurity and fear. The treacherous world of film noir combines beautifully with psychological suspense.
The Street With No Name - (1948) - 91 min
| Director: | William Keighley |
| Cast: | Mark Stevens |
| Richard Widmark | |
| Lloyd Nolan | |
| Barbara Lawrence |
Suspense is very well-handled in the case of an F.B.I. agent uncovering the head crime-pin of a city mob. An exciting semi-documentary based on actual facts.
Sunday Matinee - Programme 5 - February 10th
King Of Jazz - (1930) - 98 min
| Director: | John Murray Anderson |
| Cast: | Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra |
| John Boles | |
| Bing Crosby and the Rhythm Boys | |
| Laura La Plante |
This million-dollar musical revue is filled with larger-than-life production numbers and wonderful songs, plus, of course, Rhapsody In Blue (which in early 2-strip Technicolor is more of a rhapsody in turquoise).
Stars And Stripes Forever - (1952) - 89 min
| Director: | Henry Koster |
| Cast: | Clifton Webb |
| Robert Wagner | |
| Debra Paget | |
| Ruth Hussey |
An enjoyable musical having practically nothing to do with “The March King”, John Philip Sousa’s real life. But the music is authentic, rousing and constantly well-played; and Webb is excellent.
Sunday Matinee - Programme 6 - March 3rd
Blood On The Moon - (1948) - 88 min
| Director: | Robert Wise |
| Cast: | Robert Mitchum |
| Barbara Bel Geddes | |
| Robert Preston | |
| Walter Brennan |
Mitchum’s drifter is hired by his former partner (an unrepentant villain) to help him bilk some naïve landowners. His decision that it’s a no-go results in a terrific shootout climax in a darkened bar.
The Violent Men - (1955) - 96 min
| Director: | Rudolph Maté |
| Cast: | Glenn Ford |
| Barbara Stanwyck | |
| Edward G. Robinson | |
| Brian Keith | |
| Dianne Foster |
Stanwyck’s a ranch-house Regina Giddens (think “Little Foxes”) canoodling with her husband’s younger brother (Keith) and Robinson’s her crippled husband, a ruthless land baron. Ford just wants to sell his land and cattle, marry his fiancée, and leave. Lots of conflict in this large, sprawling Western, magnificently shot.
Sunday Matinee - Programme 7 - April 7th
Sadie McKee - (1934) - 93 min
| Director: | Clarence Brown |
| Cast: | Joan Crawford |
| Gene Raymond | |
| Franchot Tone | |
| Edward Arnold |
Crawford shines as a poor but honest housemaid with three men in her life; dashing but irresponsible Raymond, tipply millionaire Arnold and earnest employer Tone. Beautifully paced, handsomely filmed and solidly entertaining.
They Met In Bombay - (1941) - 92 min
| Director: | Clarence Brown |
| Cast: | Clark Gable |
| Rosalind Russell | |
| Peter Lorre | |
| Reginald Owen |
A rousing adventure yarn about a couple of jewel thieves who fall in love, with war looming; enhanced by Lorre as a money-hungry, cargo-ship captain. All done with MGM’s usual polish.
Monday Night - Programme 1 - October 15th
Wedding Present - (1936) - 82 min
| Director: | Richard Wallace |
| Cast: | Cary Grant |
| Joan Bennett | |
| George Bancroft | |
| Conrad Nagel |
Grant and Bennett make a great team as two newspaper reporters but when he gets a raise and she doesn’t, there’s trouble. Announcing her intention to marry, Cary gives her a wedding present she can’t refuse.
The Rage Of Paris - (1938) - 75 min
| Director: | Henry Koster |
| Cast: | Danielle Darrieux |
| Doublas Fairbanks Jr. | |
| Mischa Auer | |
| Louis Hayward |
Darrieux is charming in this frothy comedy, as a sensible Parisian girl who campaigns vigorously to snare a wealthy husband, but succumbs to true love.
Monday Night - Programme 2 - November 12th
Q Planes (Clouds Over Europe) - (1939) - 78 min
| Director: | Tim Whelan |
| Cast: | Laurence Olivier |
| Ralph Richardson | |
| Valerie Hobson | |
| George Curzon |
Spies are lurking around Britain’s aircraft industry but are foiled by a young test pilot and a crafty Scotland Yard man. A fine thriller with Richardson a delight.
Q Planes (Clouds Over Europe) Notes
The Lady With The Lamp - (1951) - 110 min
| Director: | Herbert Wilcox |
| Cast: | Anna Neagle |
| Michael Wilding | |
| Felix Aylmer |
A lavishly produced biography of 19th-century nurse-crusader Florence Nightingale; beautifully portrayed by Anna Neagle as the Crimean War heroine.
Monday Night - Programme 3 - December 3rd
Stand-In - (1937) - 91 min
| Director: | Tay Garnett |
| Cast: | Leslie Howard |
| Joan Blondell | |
| Humphrey Bogart | |
| Jack Carson |
A rollicking screwball farce about a timid but efficient accountant (Howard) sent to reorganize a bankrupt Hollywood studio and becoming involved with sexy but underemployed stand-in Blondell and mercurial producer Bogart.
What Price Hollywood - (1932) - 88 min
| Director: | George Cukor |
| Cast: | Constance Bennett |
| Lowell Sherman | |
| Gregory Ratoff | |
| Brooks Benedict | |
| Louise Beavers |
The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood producer.
Monday Night - Programme 4 - January 14th
Up The River - (1930) - 92 min
| Director: | John Ford |
| Cast: | Spencer Tracy |
| Claire Luce | |
| Warren Hymer | |
| Humphrey Bogart |
Tracy’s film debut is terrific in this very funny comedy about a pair of convicts who go to great lengths to help a buddy (Bogart) who’s fallen in love with a female prisoner (Luce).
Steamboat Round The Bend - (1935) - 81 min
| Director: | John Ford |
| Cast: | Will Rogers |
| Anne Shirley | |
| Irwin S. Cobb | |
| Eugene Pallette |
Steamboat captain Rogers pilots ramshackle floating waxworks museum from which he dispenses highly alcoholic cure-all medicine. Highly entertaining and the climactic steamboat race is a lulu.
Monday Night - Programme 5 - February 18th
Railroaded! - (1947) - 72 min
| Director: | Anthony Mann |
| Cast: | John Ireland |
| Sheila Ryan | |
| Hugh Beaumont |
Another nice piece of film noir by director Mann about a ruthless gangster (Ireland) who frames an innocent youth for murder. A tight and suspenseful crime opus.
He Walked By Night - (1948) - 79 min
| Director: | Alfred L. Werker |
| Cast: | Richard Basehart |
| Scott Brady | |
| Jack Webb | |
| Whit Bissell |
A terrific semi-documentary chase drama showing how the police stalk a killer. Exciting, tense and absorbing, and Basehart is superb as the killer. Partially directed by a. Mann.
Monday Night - Programme 6 - March 11th
Moss Rose - (1947) - 47 min
| Director: | Gregory Ratoff |
| Cast: | Peggy Cummins |
| Victor Mature | |
| Ethel Barrymore | |
| Vincent Price |
A well-done mystery drama about a chorus girl who blackmails her way into high society but comes up against an aristocratic family involved in murder. Watch out for mother.
Chase A Crooked Shadow - (1958) - 87 min
| Director: | Michael Anderson |
| Cast: | Anne Baxter |
| Richard Todd | |
| Herbert Lom | |
| Alexander Knox |
Heiress Baxter becomes the victim of a diabolical set-up to do her out of her sizeable inheritance. An exciting Hitchcock-like melodrama.
Programme 7 - April 15th
Night And The City - (1950) - 101 min
| Director: | Jules Dassin |
| Cast: | Richard Widmark |
| Gene Tierney | |
| Googie Withers | |
| Hugh Marlowe |
Dassin’s gem of an expressionistic thriller, beautifully shot in London. Widmark gives one of his most understated performances, nervous and taut, as an American low-life on the lam.
Gunman In The Streets - (1950) - 86 min
| Director: | Frank Tuttle |
| Cast: | Dane Clark |
| Simone Signoret | |
| Fernand Gravet | |
| Robert Duke |
An extremely interesting film noir shot in Paris and never released in the States. Here’s another crook on the run, this time it’s Dane Clark, who turns to his girlfriend (Signoret) for money—and a way out of the country. Noir never looked better thanks to great use of the Paris locations.