Desert Fury // Once Upon a Time in Hollywoodland...
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Desert Fury // Once Upon a Time in Hollywoodland...

Sirk in the desert, with all of the heightened emotion and ridiculous stakes that label implies!

By Stray Cat Film Center

Date and time

Thursday, June 13 · 7 - 9pm CDT

Location

Stray Cat Film Center

1662 Broadway Boulevard Kansas City, MO 64108

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Agenda

6:30 PM

Doors Open/Pre-Show

7:00 PM

Intro/Screening Starts

About this event

  • 2 hours

dir. Lewis Allen // 1947 // 1 hr 36 min // Digital Projection

Like Mildred Pierce, Desert Fury is a mother-daughter melodrama that evolves into a film noir—perhaps the only 1940s film noir in color. At the same time, the overheated dialogue, the tough female casino owner protagonist and an undercurrent of homoeroticism make it a kind of harbinger of Johnny Guitar. Mary Astor seems a bit too-enamored of her own daughter (Liz), Wendell Corey is murderously miffed at being jilted by partner-in-crime John Hodiak, and beefcake lawman Burt Lancaster seems oblivious to the mix-and-match sexuality surging all around him. Declared by Eddie Muller “The gayest movie ever made in Hollywood’s Golden Era.”

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOODLAND... is a series hosted and programmed by KCAI lecturer Kara Heitz looking at classic Hollywood films and history from the advent of sound to the birth of New Hollywood.

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Stray Cat Film Center

Stray Cat Film Center is an artist-run, non-profit micro-cinema. Organized by volunteer programmers, We screen everything from to documentaries to video art to cult films and is open to the entire range of moving image expressions – independent, activist, underground and bizarre. We are a space that supports all of KC’s cinematic communities and celebrates diversity of expression, fun & radical art.

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