These 14 films will be
shown over seven Monday nights in July and August at Innis College Town
Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue at the St. George subway station in Toronto.
Come and join us. Celebrate our Sixtieth Season!
THE MAN WHO BROKE THE BANK AT MONTE
CARLO (1935) USA
B/W 71 MINUTES
Director:
Steven Roberts
Cast: Ronald Colman, Joan Bennett,
Colin Clive, Nigel Bruce.
Famous gambling casino doesn’t stand
a chance with charming Ronald Colman.
BUY ME THAT TOWN
(1941) USA B/W 70 MINUTES
Director:
Eugene Forde
Cast: Lloyd Nolan, Constance Moore,
Albert Dekker, Edward Brophy.
Clever “B” comedy about some
gangsters who save a town from bankruptcy by using the jail as a
refuge for their law breaker pals. Great cast of veteran tough guys.
THE CASE OF THE LUCKY LEGS
(1935) USA B/W 77 MINUTES
Director: Archie Mayo
Cast: Warren William, Genevieve Tobin, Patricia Ellis, Lyle
Talbot, Allen Jenkins.
A stylish whodunit, Perry Mason
(Williams) pursues a sleazy beauty contest promoter. A dose of
humor is added by having bon vivant Perry struggling to stay on the
wagon
THE GRACIE ALLEN MURDER CASE
(1939) USA B/W
78
MINUTES
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Warren William, Gracie Allen, Ellen Drew.
Philo Vance attempts to solve the murder
of a convict and is “helped” by screwball Gracie. Tailor made for
Gracie, this time without George.
MISS GRANT TAKES RICHMOND (1949)
USA B/W
87 MINUTES
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Lucille Ball, William Holden, James Gleason.
A very funny comedy about a real estate business
that’s a front for a bookie syndicate. Lucy plays a wacky
secretary innocently involved with the crooks.
THE MAN FROM THE DINER'S CLUB (1963)
USA B/W 96
MINUTES
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Danny Kaye, Martha Hyer, Telly Savalas.
In this wild bit of slapstick, an inept employee
(Kaye) makes out an application for a gangster trying to leave the
country, and the troubles begin.
FAST AND FURIOUS (1939) USA B/W 73
MINUTES
Director: Busby Berkeley
Cast: Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey, Lee Bowman.
A husband and wife team of rare-book sellers (Tone
and Sothern) investigate murder at a seaside beauty pageant. The
last of three light-hearted MGM mysteries modeled after the Thin Man
series.
THE HOUSEKEEPER'S DAUGHTER (1939)
USA B/W 71 MINUTES
Director: Hal Roach
Cast: Joan Bennett, Adolphe Menjou, William Gargan.
Chic Bennett helps crack a homicide case in this neat
little murder mystery, with a bang up finish. Victor Mature's film
debut.
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SPARE A COPPER (1940) UK B/W 77
MINUTES
Director: John Paddy Carstairs
Cast: George Formby, Bernard Lee, Dorothy Hyson, John
Warwick.
A hidden gem of UK comedy. At Merseyside, a
police war reservist helps catch shipyard saboteurs who are using the
fairground as a front. One of Formby's best films.
TWO WAY STRETCH (1960) UK B/W 78 MINUTES
Director: Robert Day
Cast: Peter Sellers, David Lodge, Lionel Jeffries.
A classic comedy of cons breaking in and out of
prison to commit robberies. Wry shenanigans from a stellar cast.
FOOTSTEPS IN THE DARK (1941) USA B/W
96 MINUTES
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Errol Flynn, Ralph Bellamy, Brenda Marshall, Alan Hale,
Allen Jenkins, Roscoe Karns.
An investment banker and amateur Sherlock (Flynn)
becomes involved in a real murder and the action heats up. Flynn
is very funny in this zany comedy.
WHISTLING IN THE DARK (1941) USA
B/W 78
MINUTES
Director: Sylvan Simon
Cast: Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford, Virginia
Grey, Eve Arden, Rags Ragland.
In Red's first starring film, he's the radio sleuth
"The Fox," imprisoned in a mansion by the fiendish Veidt and forced to
help commit the "perfect murder."
THE AMAZING MR. WILLIAMS (1939)
USA B/W 80
MINUTES
Director: Alexander Hall
Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Ruth Donnelly, Edward
Brophy.
Blondell's attempts to get Douglas to the altar take
second fiddle to his murder investigations, which have a way of popping
up all the time.
IT'S IN THE BAG! (1945) USA
B/W 87 MINUTES
Director: Richard Wallace
Cast: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Don Ameche, William Bendrix,
Rudy Vallee, Binnie Barnes, Robert Benchley, John Carradine.
Flea circus promoter Fred Floogle (Allen) plays host
to a plethora of radio comics in this bit of craziness about a search
for a chair in which thousands of dollars are hidden. Very loosely
based on the Russian story "The Twelve Chairs."
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Seven Monday Evenings
of Double Bills
Starting July 9, 2007
at the Innis College Town Hall, 2 Sussex
Avenue, Toronto
Screening begins at 7:30 sharp
Doors Open at 7:00 pm
$80 for
the Series