James Cagney portrays an explsoive psychopath that only a mother could love in our presentation of Raoul Walsh's White Heat (1949), screening on the big screen at Glendale's historic Alex Theatre. As the trailer for the film proclaims, "It's your kind of Cagney, in his kind of story, blazing his way to the top of the world!" The quintessential gangster film, White Heat packs a train robbery, an extended prison sequence, and a payroll heist at an oil refinery into an action-packed 114 minutes, propelled by Cagney's electrifying performance. Southern California locations circa 1949 include the railroad tunnel in Chatsworth, Burbank's San Val Drive-in, and the Shell Oil refinery in Torrance.

Join us for an animation celebration direct from the Cartoon Hall of Fame! The Alex Film Society has created a film festival of the most wonderful animated shorts from the Golden Age of Hollywood, featuring some of your favorite characters presented as they were intended to be seen, on the BIG screen. It’s a cinematic trip back in time, when animated cartoons were more than just the opening act. They were the greatest part of going to the movies! Buccaneer Bunny (1948, Friz Freleng) Lonesome Ghosts (1937, Burt Gillett) Me Musical Nephews (1942, Seymour Kneitel) Fair Weather Fiends (1946, Shamus Culhane) Bimbo's Initiation (1931, Dave Fleischer) The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950, Chuck Jones) Drip Along Droopy (1954, Tex Avery) The Truce Hurts (1948, Hanna-Barbera) Beep Prepared (1961, Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble) King-Size Canary (1947, Tex Avery) 1931 - 1961 / Disney, MGM, Warner Bros., etc. IMDB Listing | Buy Tickets Now!

  The theme for the 19th edition of our annual The Three Stooges® festival is The Affordable Curly Care Act: Poking Medicine in the Eye Since 1933. As we say every year, it wouldn't be Thanksgiving without these turkeys.   IMDB Listing – Buy tickets now!

Beetlejuice - Buy Tickets Now! The Name In Laughter From The Hereafter 1988 / The Geffen Company | IMDB Listing In a crazy comedic mash-up of such famous "ghostly" films as TOPPER, THE CANTERVILLE GHOST, TIME OF THEIR LIVES, POLTERGEIST, THE AMITYVILLE HORROR and ANIMAL HOUSE (haha!), we are bringing you Tim Burton's BEETLEJUICE. Following Burton's first feature, PEE WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE, BEETLEJUICE was the surprise hit of 1988, cementing Burton's place as an influential Hollywood directing talent and also boosting the careers of Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder, who would work with Burton on movies to come. Burton's outlandish horror comedy has ghostly newlyweds Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis finding their beloved New England home taken over by revolting yuppies. To get rid of them they hire a "freelance bio-exorcist" named Beetlejuice. Revel in Winona Ryder as the estranged gothic daughter of the new family, Danny Elfman's music and Harry Belafonte's vocals, delightfully demented visuals, and Keaton's full-on comedic whirling dervish! Beetlejuice won the Academy Award® for Best Makeup for Ve Neill, Robert Short and Steve LaPorte. Schedules permitting, we will have Robert Short and Steve LaPorte on stage before the feature to discuss their work on the film. Tim Burton's Vincent (1982) will kick off the show Vincent Malloy is seven years old. He's always polite and does what he's told. For a boy his age he's considerate and nice, But he wants to be just like Vincent Price. In 1982 Tim Burton was an apprentice animator at the Walt Disney Studio. He made VINCENT while there, the story of a little boy who wants to