The Brides of Dracula and Horror Trivia! Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 7:30 PM Film Events October 26, 2017April 7, 2020 Plus, The Ultimate Horror Trivia Challenge: Hollywood Scares! The 2017 Alex Film Society Halloween Event will feature a full length stage production of Hollywood Scares! …a classic, "all ghoul" send-up of the long running Hollywood Squares quiz show. Writer, actor and stand-up comedian Dana Gould will join forces with AFS to present an evening of challenging classic horror trivia and irreverent humor. No soft balls allowed …our questions will test all the arcane knowledge that horror fans have been hording in those Brains That Would Not Die! But wait …there’s more. As always, we'll present a classic animated short and feature film. This year we are saluting the vintage horror produced by Hammer Films. In the late 1950s, London based Hammer brought exciting new life to the horror film genre. Now all the old favorites could be re-imagined in bold colors and wider screen formats. In quick succession Frankenstein, Dracula and the Mummy all got new productions that proved box office gold for the English producers and their American distributors. Brides of Dracula (1960) was the first follow-up to Horror of Dracula (1958) in a series that would eventually include eight titles. Many fans consider Brides… to one of the greatest in the Hammer canon. The scenery is beautiful, the well-constructed plot has globs of gothic perversity, the ladies are as lovely as ever and Peter Cushing is at the top of his game. So join us and find out the real name of Baron Frankenstein’s demonic assistant. And, no… it was not Igor! Plus, Our Halloween Cartoon A WITCH'S TANGLED HARE (1959,
Cool Hand Luke, July 13, 2017 at 7:30 PM Film Events July 13, 2017April 11, 2020 Cool Hand Luke (1967) celebrates its 50th Anniversary this year with Paul Newman portraying the iconic anti-hero in one of his most memorable performances. He was nominated for an Academy Award® as Best Actor along with Dustin Hoffman (The Graduate), Warren Beatty (Bonnie and Clyde), Spencer Tracy (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner) and winner Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night) in a watershed year for great films and great performances. Nominations for the picture also went out to Lalo Schifrin for Best Musical Score and Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson for Best Adapted Screenplay. Cinematographer Conrad Hall might have gotten an additional nod, but he was already nominated that year for In Cold Blood. In a career-changing win, George Kennedy won Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the kind-hearted brute, Dragline. A tale of oppression and resistance on a Southern prison chain gang, Cool Hand Luke was one of the big summer hits of 1967 and possesses a spectacular lineup of supporting players. In addition to George Kennedy, there is Jo Van Fleet (Oscar® winner for East of Eden), Dennis Hopper, Harry Dean Stanton, Anthony Zerbe, Ralph Waite, Wayne Rogers and Strother Martin. In a movie with several all-time memorable quotes… it's worth remembering that: "…Sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand." Guest Host for Cool Hand Luke will be Rob Word, Emmy-nominated producer of the annual Golden Boot Awards. Along with numerous television credits, he has produced and hosted many live events, including A Word on Westerns, a monthly celebrity interview series that airs on
The Big Sleep, April 27, 2017 at 7:30 PM Film Events April 27, 2017February 28, 2017 The type of man she hated... was the type she wanted! The Big Sleep 1946 / Warner Bros. Sparks fly between Bogart and Becall and memorable dialogue abounds in this much-admired film noir. IMDB Listing | Buy tickets now!
White Heat, Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 7:30 PM Film Events February 23, 2017February 28, 2017 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.
