MAN’S CASTLE

(Frank Borzage) Dead-broke Spencer Tracy and homeless teenager Loretta Young find each other in a ramshackle East River Hooverville. Romantic fable grounded in the grittiest realities of the day. Plus Depression cartoon Confidence. Approx. 75 min. 35mm.
1:00, 4:30, 8:00

“A neglected masterpiece… Few love stories have achieved the emotional intensity of Man’s Castle, and most of the others belonged to Borzage as well. He possessed the most delicate romantic sensibility in the movies, and his films are pervaded by a sublime spiritual quality that no one else has been able to capture.”
– Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

THE MAYOR OF HELL

(Archie Mayo) Bureaucratic infighting and torch-bearing mayhem ensue, when even ex-gangster James Cagney, now Deputy Commissioner, thinks things stink for Frankie Darro and his reform school pals. Approx. 90 min. 35mm.
2:40, 6:10, 9:40

“The power, the vigor, the surge and flow of real issues and psychological problems make The Mayor of Hell an interesting and stimulating drama.”
– The New York Times