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Film Noir UK Double Bill Launch

Sun 28 Nov

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Watershed, Bristol

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Film Noir UK Double Bill Launch
Film Noir UK Double Bill Launch

Time & Location

28 Nov 2021, 16:00

Watershed, Bristol, 1 Canon's Rd, Bristol BS1 5TX, UK

About the Event

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Celebrate the launch of Film Noir UK, the first dedicated film organisation in the UK celebrating the ever-influential world of film noir, with a double bill of Boris Ingster's Stranger on the Third Floor (on 35mm) and John Huston's The Maltese Falcon.

About Stranger on the Third Floor:

For many (critics and fans alike), Boris Ingster’s 1940 little known B picture, Stranger on the Third Floor, launched one of the greatest movements in cinema history: film noir!

Peter Lorre plays the eerie title role in this neglected gem about a reporter (John McGuire) whose testimony sentences a small-time loser (Elisha Cook Jr.) to the electric chair for murder. When the reporter himself is implicated in a second murder, he realises both crimes are the work of a furtive stranger - but will anyone believe him? All the shadowy, shivery, angled angst of German Expressionism is…

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