TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH / WHIPLASH

ABOUT THE EVENT: 

7:30pm | Introduction

7:40pm | TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

9:30pm | Intermission 

9:40pm | WHIPLASH

Start times are approximate.

ABOUT THE FILMS: 

TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH, 109 Minutes, Sony Pictures, USA. 

Originally released February 27, 1948 by Columbia Pictures

Screenplay by Jay Richard Kennedy

Produced by Sidney Buckman

Directed by Robert Stevenson

One of the first post-war movies that attempted to deal seriously with the burgeoning narcotics trade in defiance of a Production Code that forbade nearly any mention of the subject! In true “docu-noir” style, Treasury agent Dick Powell trots the globe trying to pin down the leader of a diabolical heroin ring with a series of surprising occurrences culminating in a stunning denouement. Directed by Robert Stevenson, this fascinating period suspenser is almost never screened theatrically. Don’t miss this one!

CAST:  Dick Powell (Commissioner Michael Barrows), Signe Hasso (Ann Grant), Maylia – aka Gloria Fong (Shu Pan Wu), Vladimir Sokoloff (Commissioner Lum Chi Chow), John Hoyt (George C. Shannon)

FORMAT: 35mm

WHIPLASH, 91 Minutes, Park Circus, USA. 

Originally released December 24, 1948 by Warner Bros.

Screenplay by Maurice Geraghty and Harriet Frank Jr.

Produced by Jack L. Warner

Directed by Lewis Seiler

Blend OUT OF THE PAST with BODY AND SOUL and what do you get? An artist who falls for a mystery woman, pursues her to the Big Apple, and ends up fighting for the middleweight championship! A contentious Dane Clark is artist/boxer Mike Angelo, Alexis Smith is his sexy siren, Eve Arden the sassy girlfriend, Douglas Kennedy the scar-faced gunsel, and best of all, Zachary Scott is the sadistic wheelchair-bound fight manager! “Whiplash” is what you’ll get keeping up with the breakneck plot pacing culminating in a smashing finale!

CAST:  Dane Clark (Mike Angelo), Alexis Smith (Laurie Durant), Zachary Scott (Rex Durant), Eve Arden (Chris Sherwood), Jeffrey Lynn (Dr. Arnold Vincent), Alan Hale Sr. (Terrance O’Leary), Douglas Kennedy (Costello)

FORMAT: 35mm