Fresh from writing a book on film noir, author Mark A. Vieira will give an illustrated presentation on Clifton’s Cafeteria founder Clifford Clinton’s fight with corruption, the real-life events which inspired film noir classic THE BIG HEAT.
Between the film and lecture there will be a book signing with Mark A. Vieira’s Into the Dark: The Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941-1950 and Edmond J. Clinton III’s Clifton's and Clifford Clinton: A Cafeteria and a Crusader. Larry Edmunds Bookshop wil...
Fresh from writing a book on film noir, author Mark A. Vieira will give an illustrated presentation on Clifton’s Cafeteria founder Clifford Clinton’s fight with corruption, the real-life events which inspired film noir classic THE BIG HEAT.
Between the film and lecture there will be a book signing with Mark A. Vieira’s Into the Dark: The Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941-1950 and Edmond J. Clinton III’s Clifton's and Clifford Clinton: A Cafeteria and a Crusader. Larry Edmunds Bookshop will be on hand to sell books.
At 2:00 PM author Mark A. Vieira will give an illustrated presentation on Clifton’s Cafeteria founder Clifford Clinton’s fight with corruption, the real-life events which inspired film noir classic THE BIG HEAT. In 1937, flush with the success of Clifton’s Cafeteria, Clifford Clinton challenged corruption in city hall. As a result, the police chief, the district attorney, and the mayor conspired to silence him. You know the cafeteria, but do you know the man behind it?
Followed at 3:30 PM by:
35 mm!
THE BIG HEAT
1953, Sony Repertory, 90 min, USA, Dir: Fritz Lang
Cop Glenn Ford tries to bust psychotic racketeer Lee Marvin, with a little help from his moll (Gloria Grahame); the infamous coffee-pot scene has lost none of its jolt. With Jocelyn Brando, Carolyn Jones and Jeanette Nolan. Strikingly photographed by Charles Lang.
Co-presented by the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles and Angel City Press.
