Although he is best known for the immortal CASABLANCA, Michael Curtiz directed over 150 films in a career that spanned half a century. He operated at peak efficient at Warner Bros. where he turned out between two and seven features ever year from 1926 to 1952, making film noirs, swashbucklers, melodramas, comedies, westerns, horror films, musicals, and patriotic paeans to his adopted country.
NOIR CITY maestro Alan K. Rode will joining the Music Box on June 9th & 10th to screen several Curtiz landmarks and discuss his new book, Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film. Additional matinees will continue throughout the summer.
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Previously in this Series
The Adventures of Robin Hood
***Introduced by Alan Rode | Playing as a double feature with The Mad Genius | One ticket admits to both films***Errol Flynn brings the New Deal to th... Read more
***Introduced by Alan Rode | Playing as a double feature with Casablanca | One ticket admits to both films***An adaptation of the same Ernest Hemingwa... Read more
Rare 35mm Screening | A part of Cinepocalypse 2018The great granddaddy of body horror movies, DOCTOR X is a 1932 genre mash-up that may as well have b... Read more
Joan Crawford re-teams with Curtiz for this downmarket MILDRED PIERCE, which asks whether a carnival dancer can rise to posh confines of Flamingo Road... Read more
Widely regarded as the best screen adaptation of S.S. Van Dine's Philo Vance mystery novels, THE KENNEL MURDER CASE cast William Powell as the suave d... Read more
***Introduced by Alan Rode | Playing as a double feature with The Adventures of Robin Hood | One ticket admits to both films***One of Curtiz's finest... Read more
Joan Crawford provides the last word in motherly sacrifice in this perverse noir melodrama of spoiled teenagers, loutish husbands, and chain restauran... Read more
Curtiz's answer to Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 telling of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, NOAH'S ARK mixes its Old Testament parable with a modern tale of civilizat... Read more
High-seas privateers plunder across the screen in this fleet pirate saga with a timely interventionist message. Queen Elizabeth is counseled to appeas... Read more
Chiefly known as the movie that preposterously cast Humphrey Bogart as a Mexican bandido with a pencil mustache, VIRGINIA CITY remains one of Curtiz's... Read more
