{"id":650,"date":"2011-01-08T10:56:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T18:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/?p=650"},"modified":"2011-01-08T10:56:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T18:56:14","slug":"blind-alley-to-be-screened-at-sf-noir-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/blind-alley-to-be-screened-at-sf-noir-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"“Blind Alley” to be Screened at SF Noir Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s that time of the year when my husband and I talk about driving up to San Francisco for the annual Noir City film festival and don’t actually go. This year will be no exception, because while my 7-month-old daughter is brilliant, theater-going is not yet on her list of accomplishments.<\/p>\n

This year’s line-up is especially of interest because they will be screening\u00c2\u00a0 the 1939 Columbia flick Blind Alley<\/strong><\/a>, directed by Charles Vidor, starring Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy, and of course Ann Dvorak.<\/p>\n

As I have previously discussed <\/a>when it has aired on television, Blind Alley<\/a> <\/strong>is one of my favorite Dvorak films. This tale of an escaped convict who with his gang, holds a dinner party hostage at a lakeside home while waiting for an escape boat is a bit campy but mostly compelling. How can one not be engrossed watching Ralph Bellamy use his super-psychiatric powers to drive Chester Morris completely insane? Ann plays the ever-devoted girlfriend, a role that was all too familiar in her Warner Bros days. At least this time her true love is a psychotic, murdering thug, and she is a gun-toting hard-ass who looks stunning while ordering the hired help to lock themselves in the basement.<\/p>\n

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Blind Alley <\/strong><\/a>will be screened at the Castro Theatre on Saturday, January 29th at 1:00pm and 4:30pm. It’s part of a double feature with Fritz Lang’s Secret Behind the Door<\/strong>, which as my husband commented, “sounds rad.”<\/p>\n

The Noir City festival runs from January 21-30. The full program list can be found on their website.<\/p>\n

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It’s that time of the year when my husband and I talk about driving up to San Francisco for the annual Noir City film festival and don’t actually go. This year will be no exception, because while my 7-month-old daughter is brilliant, theater-going is not yet on her list of accomplishments. This year’s line-up is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t