TRY AND GET ME / HELL DRIVERS | American Cinematheque

Egyptian Theatre

6712 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, CA 90028

Fri, Apr 5, 2013
7:30pm

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Noir City: Hollywood, 15th Annual Festival Of Film Noir

Cy Endfield Double Feature! Opening Night!

TRY AND GET ME / HELL DRIVERS

Presented in collaboration with the Film Noir Foundation

TRY AND GET ME (originally released as THE SOUND OF FURY) has been restored by the Film Noir Foundation so that it may be experienced in its original form by future generations and assume its rightful status as one of the great films of its era.

Introduction by Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode of the Film Noir Foundation.

New 35mm Restoration!

TRY AND GET ME

1951, Paramount, 91 min, USA, Dir: Cy Endfield

The true story of a shocking 1934 kidnapping and murder in San Jose provided the inspiration for one of the most compelling - and unjustly neglected - masterpieces of film noir. Ex-GI Howard Tyler (Frank Lovejoy), struggling to support his family, meets flashy hoodlum Jerry Slocum (Lloyd Bridges), who eases the gullible Howard into a lucrative life of crime. Their escapade turns dark and desperate when Jerry takes hostage the son of a wealthy local businessman. One of the last films made in the U.S. by blacklisted writer/director Cy Endfield before he relocated to England, TRY AND GET ME (originally released as THE SOUND OF FURY) has been restored by the Film Noir Foundation so that it may be experienced in its original form by future generations and assume its rightful status as one of the great films of its era. NOT ON DVD!

HELL DRIVERS

1957, Park Circus, 101 min, UK, Dir: Cy Endfield

An ex-con (Stanley Baker) trying to go straight takes a job driving for a corrupt trucking company, where the bosses pit the drivers against each other in a dangerous competition that leads to higher profits and ... death! Peggy Cummins is the saucy secretary who flirts her way through an array of up-and-coming stars. A gear-grinding masterpiece!

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Egyptian Theatre • Fri, Apr 5, 2013 • 7:30pm

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Films in this Series at the Egyptian

SUNSET BOULEVARD / THE OTHER WOMAN Sat, Apr 6, 2013 - 7:30pm Egyptian Theatre	REPEAT PERFORMANCE / HE WALKED BY NIGHT Sun, Apr 7, 2013 - 7:30pm Egyptian Theatre	HOUSE BY THE RIVER / SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR Wed, Apr 10, 2013 - 7:30pm Egyptian Theatre
THE CASE AGAINST BROOKLYN / CITY ACROSS THE RIVER Thu, Apr 11, 2013 - 7:30pm Egyptian Theatre	New 35mm Prints! STREET OF CHANCE / NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES Fri, Apr 12, 2013 - 7:30pm Egyptian Theatre	HIGH TIDE / CHICAGO CALLING Sat, Apr 13, 2013 - 7:30pm Egyptian Theatre
APPOINTMENT WITH A SHADOW / GUILTY BYSTANDER Sun, Apr 14, 2013 - 7:30pm Egyptian Theatre	CRY OF THE CITY / THE KILLERS Wed, Apr 17, 2013 - 7:30pm Egyptian Theatre	UNDERCOVER MAN / SO DARK THE NIGHT Thu, Apr 18, 2013 - 7:30pm Egyptian Theatre
Archival Prints! NATIVE SON / NO WAY OUT Fri, Apr 19, 2013 - 7:30pm Egyptian Theatre	Dean Mora's Swingtet, Burlesque, Drinks, Gambling Den, Mugshots, Noir CIty Scavenger Hunt Noir City 15th Anniversary Closing Night Party: ROAD HOUSE Sun, Apr 21, 2013 - 6:00pm Egyptian Theatre

Films in this Series at the Aero

3-D Noir! 60th Anniversaries!

MAN IN THE DARK / INFERNO

Sat, Apr 20, 2013 - 7:30pm

Aero Theatre