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NOIR CITY 17: 1950: TRAPPED / THE FILE ON THELMA JORDON

Friday, January 25: 1950

7:30
TRAPPED
(1949, Eagle-Lion Films [FNF/UCLA]. 78 min.)

World premiere 35mm restoration

Scr. Earl Felton and George Zuckerman. Dir. Richard Fleischer

T-Men investigating a flood of phony $20s spring convicted counterfeiter Tris Stewart (Lloyd Bridges) from the joint to use as an undercover operative. But Tris is only stringing the feds along until he makes a score and scoots to Mexico with his red-hot squeeze, Meg (Barbara Payton). The double- and triple-crosses come fast and furious as no one's sure who's a crook and who's a copper. A hasty and hard-edged B from director Fleischer, with exceptional camerawork by DP Guy Roe. Rescued from oblivion by the Film Noir Foundation and UCLA Film & Television Archive. Premiere screening of a newly restored 35mm print
Cast: Lloyd Bridges (Tris Stewart), Barbara Payton (Meg Dixon), John Hoyt (John Downey)

9:15
THE FILE ON THELMA JORDON
(1950, Paramount. 100 min.)

Scr. Ketti Frings, from a story by Mary Holland. Dir. Robert Siodmak

Boozy assistant DA Cleve Marshall (Wendell Corey) reels from a stifling marriage into an affair with the mysterious Thelma Jordon (Barbara Stanwyck). He's so smitten, and besotted, he misses the warning signs: Thelma has a sickly aunt loaded with dough and spends lots of time in the arms of shadowy and sinister Tony Laredo (Richard Rober). Something bad is bound to happen... and when it does Cleve winds up working both sides of the law. Noir master Siodmak does a spellbinding job with a terrific script, and Stanwyck, Queen of Noir, offers a terrific, two-faced turn in one of her most rarely screened films. 35mm print courtesy of Paramount Pictures
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Thelma Jordon), Wendell Corey (Cleve Marshall), Paul Kelly (Miles Scott), Joan Tetzel (Pamela Marshall), Richard Rober (Tony Laredo)