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The Public Menace (1935);
Adventure in Manhattan (1936)

The Public Menace (1935)
August 24, 2012 - 7:30 pm
Billy Wilder Theater

Restored Print!

The Public Menace (1935)

Directed by Erie C. Kenton

The title of this film ostensibly refers to a gangster who escapes police custody and causes mayhem, but it applies just as well to Jean Arthur’s “Cassie,” a cruise-ship manicurist who lost her US Citizenship on a fluke and regains it by marrying ace reporter George Murphy. Handing the reporter hot tips about the criminal (who escapes custody while on shipboard), Cassie charmingly creates chaos, inevitably leading to romance.

Columbia Pictures Corp. Screenwriter: Ethel Hill, Lionel Houser. Cinematographer: Henry Freulich. Editor: Gene Milford. Cast: Jean Arthur, George Murphy, Douglass Dumbrille, George McKay, Robert Middlemass.

35mm, b/w, 73 min.

Restored Print!

Adventure in Manhattan (1936)

Directed by Edward Ludwig

A hotshot reporter (McCrea), adept at predicting big crimes, is foiled by the schemes of a master criminal and by an unwitting actress, Claire Peyton (Arthur), whose play the evil mastermind is producing as part of an elaborate heist plot. Arthur acquits herself handsomely, deftly embodying the shifting moods of this elaborately-plotted, comedic crime drama.

Columbia Pictures Corp. Producer: Everett Riskin. Screenwriter: Sidney Buchman, Harry Sauber, Jack Kirkland. Cinematographer: Henry Freulich. Editor: Otto Meyer. Cast: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Reginald Owen, Thomas Mitchell, Victor Kilian.

35mm, b/w, 73 min.

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The Two Faces of Jean