DECEMBER 17 - SPECIAL SEASON: ACTION! HOWARD HAWKS IN THE 1930s
December 17 - 7:00pm
The Dawn Patrol
Howard Hawks (1930) 95 mins
From the Oscar-winning script by John Monk Saunders, Hawks’ 1st sound film is a powerful drama portraying both the tragedy & futility of war via a group of WWI British pilots. The aerial combat sequences move seamlessly from soundstage recreations to actual footage obtained from a camera mounted on the front of an airplane without any jarring sense of displacement. Starring Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. & Neil Hamilton.
Imported 35mm print courtesy of The Library of Congress.
December 17 - 8:45pm
The Criminal Code
Howard Hawks (1931) 95 mins
Hawks’ only prison film & one of Columbia’s finest early talkies. Advised by & featuring real convicts this taut drama has a strong air of authenticity & won a best screenplay Oscar nomination for Fred Niblo & Seton I. Miller. Walter Huston produces one of his most powerful performances as a cynical D.A. appointed as the warden of a prison where many of the inmates owe him their confinement. Boris Karloff is chillingly effective as the villain – some of his footage reappearing in Peter Bogdanovich’s Targets.
Imported 35mm print courtesy of The Library of Congress.
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