SAT MAR 30, 2024 2:00 PM THE MIND READER / IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Egyptian Theatre | ‘NOIR CITY: Hollywood 2024’ Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILMS: THE MIND READER, Dir. Roy Del Ruth, 70 Min, Park Circus, USA Originally released April 1, 1933 This proto-noir rarity — presented in 35mm — follows a trio of itinerant con-men working a “spook racket” around the country. All well and good, until “Chandra the Great” (pre-Code cad Warren William) falls for a pretty and gullible rube (Costance Cummings). Based on a story by the legendary Wilson Mizner, himself something of an expert in scams and swindles. A brisk 70 minutes of pre-Code fun, and one of the first films to “pull back the curtain” on phony “spiritualists.” FORMAT: 35mm IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND, Dir. Roberto Gavaldón, 113 Min, Televisa, Mexico Originally released June 21, 1951 In Spanish with English subtitles. Jaime Karin is an astrologer, fortune teller and a scam artist, who uses his wife who works in an elegant beauty salon, to find out information on future wealthy clients. FORMAT: DCP