16mm DOUBLE FEATURE NIGHT March 1st – 1931 JEKYLL & HYDE and DILLINGER

Join us for some old-school 16mm Movie Madness! – It’s our second monthly 16MM DOUBLE FEATURE NIGHT at The Way Out Club (2525 Jefferson Avenue in St. Louis) ! Join We Are Movie Geeks‘ Tom Stockman and Roger from “Roger’s Reels’ for a double feature of two complete films projected on 16mm film. The show is Tuesday March 1^st and starts at 8pm. Admission is FREE though we will be setting out a jar to take donations for the National Children’s Cancer Society.

First up is the 1931 version of DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE

“I have no soul. I’m beyond the pale. I’m one of the living dead!”

Fredric March was superb and thoroughly deserved his Best Actor Oscar for the 1932 telling of DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, by far the most exciting and cinematic version of the famous story. Miriam Hopkins gives an excellent portrayal of Ivy Pearson, a London prostitute. Her accent was so good I wouldn’t have guessed she was born in Georgia. Rose Hobart is also very good as Jekyll’s fiancé and Edgar Norten is outstanding as his butler Poole. Director Rouben Mamoulian deserves credit for the film’s success. His direction for Paramount, while not quite as showy as James Whale’s direction on the Frankenstein films over at Universal, is both effective and inventive. His use of subjective camera foreshadowed the ‘steadicam killer’ cliché so overused decades later. Too bad he didn’t work more in the horror genre. The pace, the brilliant gas-lit settings, and the transformation scenes are still extremely impressive. This violent and sexually frank masterpiece shows how much better movies would have been without the Hay’s Code.

“My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people’s money! “

Next is DILLINGER .

Warren Oates as John Dillinger in director John Milius’ bloody, R-rated 1973 crime opus DILLINGER is humorous, menacing, philosophical, and always fascinating to watch. A great cast of supporting players adds color to the Depression-era bank robber’s saga; especially Harry Dean Stanton as hapless gang member Homer Van Meter, and lovely Michelle Philips as Dillinger’s girlfriend Billie Frechette. Ben Johnson is a powerful presence as Dillinger’s nemesis, FBI agent Melvin Purvis, Steve Kanaly stands out with his charming portrayal of Pretty Boy Floyd, and a then-unknown Richard Dreyfuss is frighteningly convincing and funny at the same time as psychotic gangster Baby Face Nelson ( ” I don’t like to be called that”). There is never a dull moment in DILLINGER and the movie paces itself at a rapid clip. as an accurate and entertaining retelling of the rat-a-tat-tat era.

There will be movie trivia with prizes and of course The Way Out Club will have a full bar and Way Out Pizzas for sale. Don’t miss it!

A facebook invite for the event can be found HERE

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