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WORKSHOP FILM GROUP Screens Classic Movies at Workshop Arts Centre 33 Laurel Street Willoughby NSW 2068. First and third Fridays at 8.00pm Yearly membership $50 single, $75 double. Enquiries: Joanne 02 94363103, Jenny 02 94890105 www.workshopfilmgroup.net A Member of the Federation of New South Wales & Associated Film Societies Feb 1 Opening Night Party with Mar 15 Bringing Up Baby Die Hard The Story Of Lasseter’s Lost Gold Reef USA 1938 102 Min b/w Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Australia 1969 45 min Col Dir: David Crocker Cast: James Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles. Mason. Historical documentary Screwball comedy Reconstructs the story of Harold A mild mannered professor is excited Lasseter’s prospecting expeditions in that an intercostals clavicle bone has Western Australia and his later been found for his brontosaurus skeleton searches for the reef he claimed to but he needs $1m endowment to have seen in 1897, up to his death in complete his project. He is equally the 1930 attempt. excited about his pending marriage to his assistant who is more interested in his Feb 15 Shadow Of A Doubt project than him. USA 1943 105 Min b/w Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, MacDonald Carey, Henry Travers. 5 April Call Northside 777 USA 1948 111 Min b/w Dir: Henry Hathaway Cast: James Film Noir, murder thriller Stewart, Lee J Cobb, Helen Walker, Kasia Orzazewski, Richard Conte, Betty Garde. Charlotte is bored with her quiet life at home with her parents and younger sister Crime thriller based on fact and wishes her uncle would arrive for some excitement. He duly arrives and In 1932 a cop is killed, Frank Wiecek is young Charlotte notices his odd sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a behaviour such as cutting out a story newspaper ad by Frank’s mother leads a about a man who murders rich widows, Chicago’s reporter to look into the case. fearing the worse when two strangers appear asking When he starts to believe him innocent questions about her uncle. he meets increased resistance from authorities. Mar 1 L’histoire D’adele H (Story Of Adel H) 19 April Die Morder Sind Unter Uns (The France 1975 98 Min Col Dir: François Truffaut Cast: Murderers Are Amongst Us) Isabelle Adjana, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott. Germany 1946 84 Min b/w Dir: Wolfgang Staudte Cast: Hildegard Knef, Ernst Wilheim, Borchert, Erna Sellmer. Intense romantic melodrama - English subtitles Drama – English subtitles A young woman Adelo Hugo the second daughter of the great French literary Susan Wallner returns to the ruins of figure and statesman in 1863 comes to Berlin to find a war veteran doctor Halifax in search of Lt Pinson, with whom living in her apartment. The doctor’s she is madly in love. Lt Pinson does not commanding officer in the war now a share her love but her obsession grows successful industrialist gave the order as she keeps chasing him. A film about to kill more than 100 innocent people passionate obsessive love and self- destruction. in Poland and he decides to administer justice. WORKSHOP FILM GROUP Screens Classic Movies at Workshop Arts Centre 33 Laurel Street Willoughby NSW 2068. First and third Fridays at 8.00pm Yearly membership $50 single, $75 double. Enquiries: Joanne 02 94363103, Jenny 02 94890105 www.workshopfilmgroup.net A Member of the Federation of New South Wales & Associated Film Societies 3 May Where No Vultures Fly 7 June Double Bill (continued) UK 1951 107 Min Col Dir: Harry Watt Cast: Anthony Steel, Dinah Sheridan, Harold Warrender. The Accessible Arctic Canada 1967 24 Min Col Producer David Bairstow. Adventure drama National Film Board Of Canada documentary A game warden sickened by the slaughter of wild life in East Africa takes Illustrates how the rapid extension of roads, airways and on the ivory poachers and wins over communications has aided the development of officialdom. Filmed in Kenya by Ealing comfortable and varied living conditions in the Canadian Studios based on a story by Harry Watt. North. 21 June Love Me Or Leave Me USA 1955 120 min Col Dir: Charles Vidor Cast: Doris Day, 17 May The Philadelphia Story James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith, Tom USA 1940 112 Min b/w Dir: George Cukor Cast: Cary Tully, Harry Bellaver, Richard Gaines, Peter Leeds. Grant, Katherine Hepburn, James Stewart. MGM biographical musical Romantic screwball comedy Story of Ruth Ettings’s rise from 1920’s Two socialites Tracy and Dexter having taxi dancer to movie star, her big break married impulsively then passionately coming when Chicago gangster Martin divorce because of Dexter’s excessive Snyder (The Gimp) discovered and drinking. Two years later Tracy is about married her. Impressive performance to remarry when three unexpected from Doris Day. guests arrive. 7 June Double Bill All Films are screened courtesy of The National Film & Sound Archives, Canberra. Endurance The Story Of A Glorious Failure, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Last Gallant Attempt To Reach The South Pole UK 1958 55 Min b/w Commentator F A Worsley. Historical documentary The story of Shackleton’s expeditions to the Antarctic in 1914-16 & 1921 originally photographed by Australian Frank Hurley. Re-edited in 1958 excluding the inter-titles and adding commentary. .