The "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" Weekend
Friday May 11th through Sunday May 13th, 2012
At The Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton Street, Toronto, Ontario.
For the first time, after over 45 years of holding our May Film Weekend Getaway
up in northern Ontario, Toronto Film Society will be holding this event in downtown
Toronto!
It will be a film-packed weekend starting with the hilarious "Dead Men Don't Wear
Plaid" followed by all eighteen of the 40s classic films, many of them film noir,
that are featured in this 1982 film. The cost for the weekend is $150.00. This includes
all 19 films and 3 lunches at the theatre. There are limited seats available so
book by April 10th to guarantee your seat. After April 10th, TFS will be offering
the daily rates of $65 a day for Friday or Saturday, and $50 for Sunday, including
lunches. Rush seats will be available for $10.00 at the door prior to each screening.
Check out the website for times. All screenings are at the Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton
Street, Toronto, Ontario. Film screenings on Friday and Saturday begin at 9:00 a.m.;
Sunday at 9:30 a.m.
REGISTRATION FORM
If you need a downtown hotel, there are many to choose from. The TFS has a special
group rate of $119.00 per night plus taxes for single or double occupancy with the
HOLIDAY INN at 30 Carlton Street directly beside the Carlton Cinema from
Thursday, May 10th to the 14th, 2012. (ROOMS STILL AVAILABLE)
The Holiday Inn also provides parking for the daily rate of $15 or overnight parking
for $25. They have an on-site restaurant and offer a buffet breakfast for $16.95.
To make your reservations, please call the hotel directly at 416-977-6655 or 1-800-367-9601
to advise them of your arrival and departure dates. To book online you can click
the following link:
Holiday Inn Online Booking. Be sure to mention Toronto Film Society
when booking.
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid - (1982) - 88 min
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Director:
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Carl Reiner
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Cast:
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Steve Martin
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Rachel Ward
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Reni Santoni
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Carl Reiner
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A clever mixture of a contemporary comedy/mystery based on the 1940s film noir,
with old film clips inserted into the action and giving the impression that Steve
Martin's private eye is involved with a panorama of stars. Film buffs will have
a field day!
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The Big Sleep - (1946) - 114 min
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Director:
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Howard Hawks
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Cast:
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Humphrey Bogart
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Lauren Bacall
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A classic mystery thriller from Raymond "Chandler's" first novel, full of corruption,
annihilation and efficient wit. Scripted by William Faulkner, the atmosphere is
like a chronic hangover with action and scenes mostly there for their own sake the
plot is impossible to follow.
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The Bribe - (1949) - 98 min
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Director:
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Robert Z. Leonard
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Cast:
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Robert Taylor
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Ava Gardner
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Charles Laughton
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Vincent Price
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A neat drama about a government agent (Taylor) chasing crooks in the Caribbean.
He's in big trouble when he falls for the seductive wife of one of the bad guys,
sultry singer Ava.
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Dark Passage - (1947) - 106 min
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Director:
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Delmer Daves
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Cast:
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Humphrey Bogart
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Lauren Bacall
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Agnes Moorehead
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In this intriguing but uneven melodrama, a man (Bogart) escapes from San Quentin
to try to prove himself innocent of murdering his wife. Bacall to the rescue!
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Deception - (1946) - 110 min
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Director:
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Irving Rapper
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Cast:
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Bette Davis
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Paul Henreid
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Claude Rains
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Called by one reviewer a "scrumptious plum pudding of a soap opera", struggling
pianist Bette must choose between her old musician amour (Henreid) and the composer
(Rains) who's been keeping her in style. Her choice is not a happy one.
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Double Indemnity - (1944) - 107 min
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Director:
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Billy Wilder
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Cast:
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Fred MacMurray
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Barbara Stanwyck
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Edward G. Robinson
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James M. Cain's classic hard-boiled novella becomes one of the first, and best,
examples of the noir crime films of the 40s thanks to a great script by Billy Wilder
and Raymond Chandler. Shifty insurance salesman MacMurray cooks up a scheme with
femme fatale Stanwyck to kill her husband and cash in on his policy.
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The Glass Key - (1942) - 85 min
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Director:
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Stuart Heisler
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Cast:
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Brian Donlevy
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Veronica Lake
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Alan Ladd
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William Bendix
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An exciting Dashiel Hammett story about crime, murder and politics. Good natured,
crooked politician Donlevy is saved from a murder frame-up by his taciturn henchman
Ladd. Gritty atmosphere with added love interest, namely Veronica.
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Humoresque - (1946) - 125 min
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Director:
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Jean Negulesco
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Cast:
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Joan Crawford
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John Garfield
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A fine screen adaptation of a Fanny Hurst drama of a talented, ambitious musician
from the slums (Garfield) who meets, is sponsored and loved by a wealthy but unstable
patroness (Crawford, perhaps her finest hour); and the inevitable climax. Spiced
up with some Clifford Odets dialogue, with Garfield's violin solo played by Isaac
Stern.
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I Walk Alone - (1948) - 97 min
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Director:
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Byron Haskin
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Cast:
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Burt Lancaster
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Lizabeth Scott
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Kirk Douglas
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An embittered man (Lancaster) returns from prison to find a lot of things have changed
and not for the better. His old pal Douglas makes a dandy adversary in this grim
melodrama.
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In a Lonely Place - (1950) - 94 min
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Director:
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Nicholas Ray
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Cast:
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Humphrey Bogart
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Gloria Grahame
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A gripping, powerful story about a feisty, self-destructive screenwriter (Bogart)
trying to clear himself of a murder rap and his strange romance with his female
alibi. A great character study set against a realistic and cynical Hollywood background.
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Johnny Eager - (1941) - 107 min
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Director:
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Mervyn LeRoy
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Cast:
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Robert Taylor
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Lana Turner
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Edward Arnold
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Van Heflin
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A top-rate gangster melodrama about a good-looking egotistical and unscrupulous
hood (Taylor). Heflin's performance as Taylor's confidant and Greek chorus won him
an Oscar and stardom.
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The Killers - (1946) - 103 min
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Director:
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Robert Siodmak
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Cast:
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Burt Lancaster
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Ava Gardner
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Edmond O'Brien
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Extending Ernest Hemingway's taut short story into this suspenseful and excellently
produced and directed crime drama, an insurance detective unravels the killing of
a washed-up boxer. In his film debut, Lancaster excels. Film fireworks!
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The Lost Weekend - (1945) - 101 min
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Director:
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Billy Wilder
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Cast:
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Ray Milland
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Jane Wyman
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One of the first American films to deal with alcoholism, and a milestone in its
time, it endures as a powerful, unsparing character study. Milland is superb as
a failed writer who goes on a bender one lonely weekend and watches his life spiral
into the gutter.
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Notorious - (1946) - 101 min
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Director:
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Cast:
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Cary Grant
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Ingrid Bergman
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Claude Rains
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Louis Calhern
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Hitchcock's brooding, romantic spy thriller is frank, tense and well-acted with
an amazingly suspenseful climax. A top-notch espionage tale by writer Ben Hecht.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice - (1946) - 113
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Director:
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Tay Garnett
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Cast:
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Lana Turner
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John Garfield
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Hume Cronyn
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Audrey Totter
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This version of James Cain's novel softens the brutal sexuality in favour of smouldering
looks and dialogue riddled with double entendres. Turner's shallow beauty is perfectly
suited to the role of the amoral wife who plots to murder her husband but even luscious
Lana is overshadowed by Garfield's street smart bravado as a drifter who becomes
her conspirator and lover.
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Sorry, Wrong Number - (1948) - 89 min
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Director:
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Anatole Litvak
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Cast:
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Barbara Stanwyck
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Burt Lancaster
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This famous radio thriller is neatly adapted to the screen in a tense study of a
neurotic and bedridden wife overhearing a murder plot on the telephone and realizing
she's the intended victim. Stanwyck invests her harridan in distress with human
dimensions.
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Suspicion - (1941) - 99 min
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Director:
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Cast:
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Cary Grant
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Joan Fontaine
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Dame May Whitty
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Joan Fontaine won an Oscar for her portrayal of a mousey wife who thinks her mysterious,
irresponsible husband (Grant) is trying to murder her. The two stars shine in Hitchcock?s
intriguing work about emotional vulnerability.
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This Gun For Hire - (1942) - 80 min
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Director:
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Frank Tuttle
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Cast:
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Veronica Lake
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Robert Preston
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Laird Cregar
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Alan Ladd
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Graham Greene's novel becomes an exciting, tense tale of a hired killer who is double-crossed
and seeks revenge. Alan Ladd's portrayal of ?Raven?, the hired killer made him a
star.
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White Heat - (1949) - 114 min
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Director:
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Raoul Walsh
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Cast:
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James Cagney
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Virginia Mayo
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Edmond O'Brien
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A brutal, brilliant gangster saga with Cagney in his most flamboyant role, as mother-loving
Cody Jarrett, the man with the cinema's strongest Oedipus complex. "Top of the World"
finale is now movie legend.
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