Previously Played
- CHINATOWN NIGHTS: 1:30 4:45 7:45
- WOMAN TRAP: 3:05 9:20
2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION
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CHINATOWN NIGHTS
(1929) After white tong leader Wallace Beery saves socialite Florence Vidor from a Chinatown riot, she power-dives into his milieu out of love, but when rival boss Warner Oland (Swedish, but later Charlie Chan in the long-run series) uses her as a pawn, it may be time to get out. Wellman transformed a finished silent into a truly bizarre part-talkie.
1:30, 4:45*, 7:45
*4:45 show is a single feature
WOMAN TRAP
(1929) Four-cornered love and law problem as police captain Hal Skelly loves both Evelyn Brent and his own no-good brother Chester Morris, whose bootlegging partner Leslie Fenton is Brent’s brother, as death, betrayal, and reconciliation ensue.
3:05, 9:20
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NOTE: We were sent the wrong version of WOMAN TRAP. The 35mm beautiful print we're showing is a different film by that title released in 1936 by Paramount. It stars Gertrude Michael, George Murphy and Akim Tamiroff. It was not directed by Wellman, though it is extremely rare. |
REVIEWS
CHINATOWN NIGHTS
“An introverted, nightmarish Broken Blossoms… The emphatic, deliberate rhythm of the dubbed speech heightens the hallucinatory mood and lends a sense of ritual to the proceedings. Dark and ugly and good in ways that Wellman probably never intended, Chinatown Nights has the essence of a nightmare.”
– John Andrew Gallagher & Frank Thompson
“A colorful and gutsy little film with a number of real surprises… Wellman’s handling of the action, in stark black and whites, is both vigorous and interesting.”
– William K. Everson
WOMAN TRAP
“So fast-moving and so packed with plot that one is rather taken aback to realize that the entire picture runs its course in just over an hour.”
– John Andrew Gallagher & Frank Thompson