Andrew's Video Vault
FREE Screenings Continuous From 8 PM
on the Second THURSDAY of Every Month!
This program is made possible through the generous support of theCinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Viewer discretion is advised.
JULY 11
A Double Life (1947 / 104 minutes)
In George Cukor’s drama, written by Ruth “Maude” Gordon and Garson Born Yesterday Kanin, Ronald Colman is an actor who is strongly influenced by the characters he plays—when he agrees to play ‘Othello’, the role overwhelms him with the Moor’s murderous jealousy.
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942 / 85 minutes)
Ida Lupino lives in a small apartment with her father Monty Woolley who is a celebrated actor done in by drink. When things seem at their nadir, Woolley lands the apt role of “King Lear”. . .
AUGUST 8
Side Show (1981 / 98 minutes)
A teenage boy runs away from home and joins the circus. There, he witnesses a murder.
The Wagons Roll at Night (1941 / 84 minutes)
A lion escapes Humphrey Bogart’s carnival and is captured by grocery clerk Eddie Alert whom Bogart brings into the show and eventually makes chief lion tamer.
SEPTEMBER 12
West of Zanzibar (1928 / 65 minutes)
The ninth collaboration between Lon Chaney and director Tod Browning is a tale of revenge and debasement, wherein an evil English music hall magician is completely devoted to his wife who soon abandons him for an ivory trader.
Adventure In Iraq (1943 / 64 minutes)
Director D. Ross Lederman’s thriller where five Allied soldiers crash-land in Iraq. They are taken in by a local sheik, but soon begin to suspect that he may not be quite as friendly as he seems to be.
OCTOBER 10
The Monster (1925 / 86 minutes)
Roland West directs one of the first “mad scientist” films based on a play by Crane Wilbur. West’s movie freely mixes horror and comedy as Lon Chaney uses a “death chair” to transfer the soul of a woman into a man’s body.
The Eyes of The Mummy Ma (1918 / 57 minutes)
Director Ernst Lubitsch’s Egypt-set thriller about a young painter visiting the cursed tomb of a dead Queen.
NOVEMBER 14
Anna Nicole (2011 / 120 minutes)
Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and librettist Richard Thomas’ opera about the busty Playboy playmate who married an octogenarian billionaire.
DECEMBER 12
Rope of Sand (1949 / 104 minutes)
William Dieterle directs Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains and Peter Lorre in a gritty drama about stolen diamonds and double crosses.
Jewel Robbery (1932 / 68 minutes)
William Dieterle directs the fifth of William Powell and Kay Francis’ seven movies together wherein a robber uses marijuana to make off with coveted jewels.
FREE Screenings Continuous From 8 PM
on the Second THURSDAY of Every Month!
This program is made possible through the generous support of theCinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Viewer discretion is advised.