20,000 YEARS IN SING SING

(Michael Curtiz) Spencer Tracy takes the rap for moll Bette Davis’ self-defense killing, in Curtiz’s brutal, semi-doc treatment of Warden Lawes’ memoir. Approx. 78 min. 35mm.
1:05, 5:30, 9:55

“A still-powerful prison drama that has the only teaming of Tracy and Davis.”
– Leonard Maltin

BLOOD MONEY

(Rowland Brown) Bailbondsman George Bancroft dallies with thrill-seeking heiress Frances Dee, despite longtime mistress Dame-to-be Judith Anderson (Rebecca), but then finds himself holding the bag after a half-mill bank robbery. Approx. 65 min. 35mm.
2:35, 7:00

“Rowland Brown directed only three movies, but if this 1933 crime melodrama is any indication, he had a masterful sense of story and a surprisingly jaundiced wit.”
– J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader

LAUGHTER IN HELL

(Edward L. Cahn) Bad enough that Pat O’Brien’s condemned to the chain gang for murder; then he discovers his victim’s brother is the man in charge. Long thought lost, eye-opening rediscovery with use of zoom lenses and path-breaking scene of African-American lynching. Approx. 70 min. 35mm.
4:00, 8:25