Film noir’s mysterious shadows and sinister emotions return to the Redford Theatre on Friday, September 22, through Sunday, September 24.

Join us for Noir City Detroit, our sixth annual tribute to crime films of the 1940s and 1950s, here with a 75th-anniversary focus on 1948.

An all-access pass guarantees tickets to all eight Film Noir classics, most in rare 35mm film prints and all introduced on stage by Eddie Muller, Turner Classic Movies host and President of the Film Noir Foundation.

As an All-Access Passholder, you can pick up lanyards at the theater during the first screening you attend. This affords you:
* Preferred seating for all eight films
* The official Noir City Detroit event poster
* Early admission (doors open to you at 6:30 p.m.) for the 7 PM Friday book signing of Eddie Muller’s Noir Bar: Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir.
* Access to the 5:30 PM Saturday VIP meet and greet with Eddie Muller, including coffee and desserts. At 6 p.m., pass holders enter the theater for an on-stage discussion/Q and A with Eddie Muller about all things film noir.

https://redfordtheatre.com/events/noir-city-detroit-2023-double-feature-key-largo-and-raw-deal/

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Friday, September 22, 8 p.m.

Key Largo (1948)
Warner Bros. 100 minutes. Director John Huston.

Our weekend tribute to Film Noir in 1948 begins with this final pairing of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in a spine-tingling tale of a WWII veteran (Bogart) running up against a gangster (Edward G. Robinson) who’s holding the staff and guests of a coastal hotel hostage as a hurricane bears down on them. Bacall plays the daughter of proprietor Lionel Barrymore, and noir’s grandest dame, Claire Trevor, is Gaye Dawn, a broken-down chanteuse who’s Eddie G.’s booze-sodden moll—35 mm film print.

Raw Deal (1948)

Eagle-Lion Films. 79 minutes. Director Anthony Mann.

Claire Trevor returns as a gangster’s moll duking out with social worker Marsha Hunt for the soul of Dennis O’Keefe in this rambunctious display of quintessential noir pulp. O’Keefe busts out of the slammer determined to get even with shyster gang-boss Raymond Burr, who wants O’Keefe dead before he reaches his San Francisco hideout. Anthony Mann made his bones with the gritty, documentary-style T-Men the year before (screened at last year’s Noir City Detroit), but here he flips the script and treats fans to a surreal fantasia of violence and vengeance. 35mm film print.
Tickets (9/22, 8 p.m.) (https://ci.ovationtix.com/36213/production/1174373)
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Saturday, September 23, 2 p.m.
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Paramount. 89 minutes. Director Anatole Litvak.

A matinee tribute to great film noir actresses—Barbara Stanwyck and Ida Lupino—begins here. Bedridden heiress Leona Stevenson (Barbara Stanwyck) hears through crossed telephone wires a murder being planned. She tries to alert the police, to no avail, and grows frantic as she gradually realizes she is the intended victim. Stanwyck gives an Oscar®-nominated performance in this engrossing and densely layered extension of the legendary 22-minute radio drama. Featuring Burt Lancaster in one of his earliest roles, mesmerizing direction by Anatole Litvak, and atmospheric camerawork by the great Sol Polito. Digital presentation.

Road House (1948)
20th Century Fox. 95 minutes. Director Jean Negulesco.

A star-powered face-off between two film noir icons: sassy Ida Lupino and psychotic Richard Widmark. Sparks fly when itinerant songbird Lily Stevens (Lupino) takes a job crooning in Widmark’s rural roadhouse. When she rejects him and takes up with his boyhood chum (Cornel Wilde), the joint really starts jumping. “Love triangle” doesn’t even begin to describe the perverse psychological warfare that follows, especially with Widmark’s scorned man-child holding all of the cards. 35mm film print.
Tickets (9/23, 2 p.m.) (https://ci.ovationtix.com/36213/production/1174374)
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Saturday, September 23, 8 p.m.

Odds Against Tomorrow (1948)
United Artists. 96 minutes. Director Robert Wise.

The only non-1948 film this weekend is this hard-hitting crime film from 1959, worthy of screening any time but here in tribute to the great Harry Belafonte, who died earlier this year. He plays a gambling addict jazz man who joins ex-cop Dave Burke (Ed Begley) and hot-headed redneck war veteran Earle Slater (Robert Ryan) in a “piece-of-cake” bank robbery in upstate New York. Robert Wise’s direction is as fresh and expressive as anything being done by the French New Wave of the period, and the score by John Lewis’ Modern Jazz Quartet is innovative and exhilarating. Digital presentation.
They Live By Night (1948)
RKO. 95 minutes. Director Nicholas Ray.

Back to 1948 and one of Hollywood’s great directorial debuts. Nicholas Ray helmed this deeply-felt, richly detailed adaptation of Edward Anderson’s classic depression-era novel about lovers on the run (Farley Granger and Cathy O’Donnell), film noir’s version of Romeo and Juliet. You’d be forgiven for assuming Ray was a seasoned pro based on the inventiveness of his camerawork and the naturalness he manages to wring from each performer, including menacing supporting players Howard Da Silva, Jay C. Flippen, and Helen Craig. First released overseas, the film didn’t get a wide release in the U.S. until late 1948. It’s now considered one the finest noir films ever made. 35mm film print.
Tickets (9/23, 8 p.m.) (https://ci.ovationtix.com/36213/production/1174375)
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Sunday, September 24, 2 p.m.
The Big Clock (1948)

Paramount. 95 minutes. Director John Farrow.

Noir City Detroit’s tribute to film noir in 1948 concludes with this killer double feature. George Stroud (Ray Milland), editor of Crimeways, America’s most popular true-crime magazine, finds himself the prime suspect in the murder of his publisher’s mistress, with whom he’s just shared a day-drinking dalliance. There’s an undeniable thrill in watching Stroud talk his way out of the noose, only to have it reapplied to his neck and tightened in the very next scene. Digital presentation.
Moonrise (1948)
Republic. 90 minutes. Director Frank Borzage.

Relentlessly romantic optimist Frank Borzage is the last director you’d expect to turn out an effective film noir, but this brilliantly directed drama was his sound-era masterpiece. Dane Clark gives a bruised and brooding performance as a young man convinced that his father’s “bad blood” has sealed his miserable fate. Can he be saved by the love of angelic Gail Russell? Borzage lets the question linger throughout and ruminates on humanity’s worst tendencies with stretches of unencumbered visual brilliance. 35mm film print.
Tickets (9/24, 2 p.m.) (https://ci.ovationtix.com/36213/production/1174376)

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Film Noir Foundation president and TCM Noir Alley host Eddie Muller

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** Coming Soon
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September 15: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/ferris-buellers-day-off/) (PG-13) (1986)
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September 16: School of Rock (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/school-of-rock-2003/) (PG-13) (2003)
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Noir City Detroit

All-Access Pass to Movies and VIP Reception (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/noir-city-detroit-2023-all-access-pass/)

September 22: Key Largo (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/noir-city-detroit-2023-double-feature-key-largo-and-raw-deal/) (NR) (1948) and Raw Deal (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/noir-city-detroit-2023-double-feature-key-largo-and-raw-deal/) (NR) (1948)

September 23 (Matinee): Sorry, Wrong Number (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/noir-city-detroit-2023-double-feature-sorry-wrong-number-and-road-house/) (NR) (1948) and Road House (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/noir-city-detroit-2023-double-feature-sorry-wrong-number-and-road-house/) (NR) (1948)

September 23 (Evening): Odds Against Tomorrow (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/noir-city-detroit-2023-double-feature-odds-against-tomorrow-and-they-live-by-night/) (NR) (1959) and They Live By Night (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/noir-city-detroit-2023-double-feature-odds-against-tomorrow-and-they-live-by-night/) (NR) (1948)

September 24: The Big Clock (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/noir-city-detroit-2023-double-feature-the-big-clock-and-moonrise/) (NR) (1948) and Moonrise (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/noir-city-detroit-2023-double-feature-the-big-clock-and-moonrise/) (NR) (1948)
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September 29: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid-1969/) (PG) (1969)
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September 30: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/gentlemen-prefer-blondes-1953/) (NR) (1953)
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October 6 and 7: Hocus Pocus Shadowcast with the Goblin King Players (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/hocus-pocus-shadowcast-with-the-goblin-king-players/)
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October 12: Candlelight Flamenco—A Journey Through Spain (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/candlelight-flamenco-a-journey-through-spain/)
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October 13: Claudio Simonetti’s GOBLIN (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/claudio-simonettis-goblin/)
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October 14 (Matinee): Carrie (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/carrie-1976/) (R) (1976)
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October 14 (Evening): The Thing (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/the-thing/) (R) (1982) (35mm)
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Sir Graves Ghastly Weekend

October 20: Young Frankenstein (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/young-frankenstein-5/) (PG) (1974)

October 21 (Matinee): An Afternoon with Sir Graves Ghastly featuring Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/sir-graves-ghastly-abbott-and-costello-meet-frankenstein/) (NR) (1948)

October 21 (Evening): The 3D Invisibles vs. 3D Robot Monster (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/sir-graves-ghastly-weekend-the-3d-invisibles-vs-3d-robot-monster-1953/) (NR) (1953)
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October 22: Candlelight Concert—A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/candlelight-a-haunted-evening-of-halloween-classics/)
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October 28: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920-with-live-organ-accompaniment-by-tony-obrien/) (NR) (1920) with live organ accompaniment by Tony O’Brien
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November 3: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind-2004/) (R) (2004)
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November 4: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/o-brother-where-art-thou-2003-in-35mm/) (R) (2003) (35mm)
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November 10: Apocalypse Now (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/apocalypse-now-1979/) (R) (1979)
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November 11 (Matinee): The Best Years of Our Lives (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/the-best-years-of-our-lives-1946/) (NR) (1946)
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November 11 (Evening): Mrs. Miniver (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/mrs-miniver-1942/) (NR) (1942)
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November 17: Addams Family Values (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/addams-family-values-1993/) (PG) (1993)
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Classic Cartoon Festival

November 18 (Matinee): A Cartoon Cavalcade for Kids (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/classic-cartoon-festival-2/)

November 18 (Evening): Fleischer Studio Madness! (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/classic-cartoon-festival-fleischer-studio-madness/)
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December 1: Gremlins (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/gremlins-1984/) (PG) (1984)
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December 2 (Matinee): Meet Me in St. Louis (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/meet-me-in-st-louis-1944/) (NR) (1944)
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December 2 (Evening): National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/national-lampoons-christmas-vacation-4/) (PG-13) (1989)
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December 8-9: White Christmas (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/white-christmas-3/) (NR) (1954)
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December 9 (Matinee): The Polar Express (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/the-polar-express/) (G) (2004) (35mm)
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December 13: Candlelight Ballet—Featuring Tchaikovsky and More (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/candlelight-ballet-featuring-tchaikovsky-and-more/)
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December 15-16: It’s a Wonderful Life (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/its-a-wonderful-life-6/) (NR) (1946)
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December 17: Christmas Concert with Organist John Lauter and Swing City Big Band (https://redfordtheatre.com/events/redford-theatre-christmas-show/)
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