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SERIES PRESENTED IN 2002
MAY 11/12/13 SAT/SUN/MON (matinee only on Mon)

HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO

DIRECTOR: Preston Sturges
WRITER: Preston Sturges
STARS: Eddie Bracken
SUPPORTING PLAYERS: William Demarest, Ella Raines, Franklin Pangborn,
Raymond Walburn, Al Bridge, Freddie Steele, Jimmy Conlin, Torbin Meyer
1944, 101m
Academy Award nomination: Best Screenplay

"Sturges uses verbal slapstick as well as visual slapstick, and his timing is so quirkily effective that the dialogue keeps popping off like a string of firecrackers in this satire on hero worship, patriotism and mother love."
-- Pauline Kael

"Tells a story so touching, so chock-full of human frailties and so rich in homely detail that it achieves a reality transcending the limitations of its familiar slapstick...Expertly sandwiched between the pratfalls and the broad pie-throwing burlesque of suburban manners lies a richer comedy idea -- the alchemy by which a phony hero is transmuted from the base metal of conventional heroics to the pure gold of true heroism."
-- James Agee (1944).

SHOWTIMES: SUN 3:10, 7:10
MON 4:00
CO-FEATURE: THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN’S CREEK

ALSO PLAYING ON MONDAY, MAY 13 (separate admission): HOT WATER and MOVIE CRAZY

• Click here to read Eddie Bracken's obituary in The New York Times
• Click here to read Stephen Whitty's interview with Eddie Bracken from the Newark Star-Ledger
• Click here to read A.O. Scott's "Critic's Choice" on our Preston Sturges double feature from the New York Times
• Click here to read Dave Kehr's interview with Eddie Bracken from The New York Times