Billy Wilder directs Agatha Christie’s courtroom drama in which Charles Laughton, ignoring the advice of his physician, defends a drifter accused of killing a wealthy widow. Print courtesy of the UCLA Film and Television Archive. WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION: Preservation Funded by the Film Foundation.
Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s music drives this updating of “Romeo and Juliet,” set in the conflict between two rival New York street gangs. Winner of 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture.
Nominated for seven Academy Awards®, this coming of age comedy launched Dustin Hoffman’s career. Anne Bancroft stars as the seductive Mrs. Robinson and Simon and Garfunkel’s music still resonates.
Alfred Hitchcock directs James Stewart and Grace Kelly in this stylish thriller, filmed from Stewart’s perspective as a temporarily disabled photographer who, while spying on his neighbors, discovers a possible murder.
Bogart's back with Tim Holt and Walter Huston in John Huston's study of greed and gold. Winner of three Academy Awards®, including Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Walter Huston), and Best Director and Screenplay honors for John Huston. Alfonso Bedoya is remembered as the bandit who "ain't got no stinking badges."
Rita Hayworth, George Macready
and Glenn ord are involved
in a
love triangle, set against the background of a South
American
casino. Hayworth’s “Put the Blame
on Mame”
lights up the screen.
Print courtesy of the UCLA Film and
Television Archive.
Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara and
Clark Gable as Rhett Butler are
featured in this epic of love and
loyalty in the Civil War South.
Winner of 10 Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress (Hattie
McDaniel), GWTW was the audience favorite in a survey of Modesto Film Society members.
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson
Winner of the Oscar® as Best Picture of the Year for 1940, Rebecca was Alfred Hitchcock's American film debut. Based on Daphne du Maurier's mystery novel and set in the Cornish estate of Manderley, the film features tormented husband Laurence Olivier, newly wed wife Joan Fontaine (in her first major role, George Sanders, and the unforgettable Judith Anderson as Mrs. Danvers. “A splendid example of the cinema as a popular storyteller, “raves Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion.
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall
Fred MacMurray's insurance salesman is willingly seduced by femme fatale Barbara Stanwyck into helping murder her older husband in order to collect on his insurance policy. MacMurray's colleague and friend Edward G. Robinson leads the investigation into the suspicious death in one of the earliest examples of film noir. Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler wrote the script which is based on one of the three James M. Cain's novels to be made into films in the 1940's. Leonard Maltin describes DOUBLE INDEMNITY as “an American classic, with crackling dialogue throughout.”
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper and Jeremy Brett.
Winner of eight Oscars®, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Rex Harrison) and Best Director (Cukor), My Fair Lady successfully joins George Bernard Shaw's “Pygmalion” with the music and lyrics of Lerner and Lowe. While not nominated for Best Actress, Audrey Hepburn is “de lovely” as Eliza. “Sumptuously filmed,” says critic Leonard Maltin, “with ‘The Rain in Spain ,' (and) Harrison 's soliloquies among highlights.”
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Grease
When: Wednesday, June 27th
Riverbank's Galaxy Theatre, the City of Riverbank and the Modesto Film Society invite you to "follow the bouncing ball" and sing along with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John and the whole gang from Rydell High. There will be a custom car show in the Theatre parking lot, costume and hula hoop contests and root beer floats.
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American Graffiti
When: Saturday, June 2nd
Modesto's historic State Theatre kicks off Graffiti month with two showings of George Lucas' "American Graffiti", featuring Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss and Harrison Ford. Return to 1962 and sing along with the most memorable hits of that era.
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Blue Hawaii
When: Sunday, June 17th
Celebrate Father's Day with Elvis at the State Theatre! Wear your best Hawaiian shirt or muu muu and sing along as The King sings "Can't Help Falling in Love With You" and other hits. Free popcorn for Dad and other surprises! |
Starring: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Thomas Mitchell, John Carradine, Andy Devine, Louise Platt, George Bancroft, Tim Holt
Director John Ford's classic western, using Monument Valley as a backdrop, launched John Wayne's career as a major star. On board with Wayne through Indian territory is a divergent ensemble that includes dance hall girl Trevor, alcoholic physician Mitchell, gambler Carradine and coach driver Devine. Oscars® for Mitchell and musical score. Critic Leonard Maltin calls STAGECOACH "a landmark in the maturing of the Western, balancing character study...and peerless action...." Print courtesy of UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Tracy Reed.
Producer/Director Stanley Kubrick's black comedy, set during the height of the Cold War, features Oscar nominee Peter Sellers in three roles: Group Captain Mandrake, President Muffley and the ominous Dr. Strangelove. Convinced that the Evil Empire is threatening this country's “precious body fluids,” mad General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) orders a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union . Memorable performances include George C. Scott as General “Buck” Turgidson, Keenan Wynn as Col. “Bat” Guano and Slim Pickens (Major “King” Kong), astride a nuclear bomb, at the film's conclusion. Film critic Roger Ebert describes Dr. Strangelove as "arguably the best political satire of the century."
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn,
Robert Morley
Humphrey Bogart won an Oscar® for his performance as hard-bitten riverboat captain who, together with feisty missionary (Katharine Hepburn), undertakes a perilous journey to destroy a German warship in World War I Africa. Directed by John Huston, who coauthored the script with James Agee from C.S. Forester's novel, The African Queen was filmed entirely in the then Belgian Congo . Print courtesy of the UCLA Film Archives.
Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis and Leo G. Carroll, Martin Landau, Ed Platt
Cary Grant stars as an advertising executive who is drawn into an espionage plot in which he is targeted by both the spies and the authorities. Eva Marie Saint, who seems to know more than she lets on, aids Grant in his quest for the Soviet Spy Master Vandamm (James Mason). Hallowell’s Filmgoer’s Companion says NORTH BY NORTHWEST is “possibly Hitchcock’s most likeable film, if only because it is an over-size bag of his best old tricks,” including the crop dusting and Mount Rushmore sequences.
Director James Whale's BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) mixes pathos, dark comedy and horror in what is regarded as one of Universal's finest classic horror films. Boris Karloff reprises his role as The Monster in search of a mate, accompanied by Elsa Lanchester (as both the “bride” and Mary Shelley), Ernest Thesiger and Valerie Hobson.
Mel Brooks' YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) features an all star cast including Gene Wilder as The Mad Doctor, Peter Boyle as the Monster, Marty Feldman as Igor, Gene Hackman as The Blind Monk, Teri Garr as Inga, Cloris Leachman as Frau Blucher and Madeline Kahn as Elizabeth in a comedic homage to monster films of the 1930's, complete with the original laboratory equipment from the original Frankenstein films. Film critic Leonard Maltin praises it as “one of the funniest (and most quotable movies of all time…”. Are you ready for The Monster's dance routine to “Putting on the Ritz?”
Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton, and Cesar Romero
William Powell and Myrna Loy star as Nick and Nora Charles, a sophisticated couple who, together with their dog Asta, manage to solve murders while enjoying the good life. Based on a story by Dashiell Hammett and nominated for four Oscars, THE THIN MAN launched a series of five sequels between 1936 and 1947. Roger Ebert describes the film as a "drawing room comedy with dead bodies," and says that it resembles an "all dialogue version of an Astaire and Rogers musical, with elegant people in luxury hotel penthouses and no hint of the Depression anywhere in sight."
Starring: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
Winner of seven Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actor (Guinness) and Scoring (who can forget "Col. Bogey March"?), BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI is a war film and a suspense story that focuses on the conflicts between its main characters. Film critic Leonard Maltin writes that the "psychological battle of wills combined with high powered action sequences make this a blockbuster."
Starring: Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Jean Hagen, Cyd Charisse
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, "the greatest Hollywood musical ever made," according to critic Roger Ebert, ranks 10th on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Best American Films. Gene Kelly and Jean Hagen are cast as idols of the silent era as Hollywood makes the difficult transition to the talkies. Donald O'Connor plays Cosmo Brown, Kelly's buddy, and Debbie Reynolds is Kelly's prospective singing co-star and love interest. In addition to the title song, which Kelly sings and dances, the film features 14 other musical numbers.
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown
First on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Funniest Movies, SOME LIKE IT HOT follows Lemmon and Curtis, disguised as members of an all-women's orchestra, as they flee from gangster George Raft and his mob. Complications arise when Curtis falls for band member Sugar Cane (Monroe) and Joe E. Brown is smitten by Lemmon.
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Starring: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Lloyd Bridges, Thomas Mitchell, Katy Jurado
HIGH NOON is regarded by many critics as the first "adult" western. Gary Cooper won an Academy Award for his performance as Marshal Will Kane whose devotion to duty stands in marked contrast to the moral cowardice of his community. Dimitri Tiomkin won two Academy Awards for Best Musical Score and-with Ned Washington-Best Song ("Do Not Forsake Me, O My Darlin"), sung by Tex Ritter.
Inaugural Season 2005
- January CASABLANCA
- March THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
- May THE MALTESE FALCON
- September CITZEN KANE
- October PSYCHO
- December MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
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