Film Club

Our 2023 Season resumes in October and for the first part of the season we have chosen a series of old favourites from Classic Cinema

Friday 13th October  Cat on a Hot Tin roof
Friday 10th November  This Happy Breed
Friday 8th December Casablanca

Membership £2.50 and entry to films £2.50 (first film free)
Films are shown in the BOXTED AND HARTEST INSTITUTE and start at 7.30pm on the
second Friday of the Month. Everyone is welcome.

Ralph Carpenter (ralph@hartesthill.com and 07720 935487)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958  (104 minutes) Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives

Story by Tennessee Williams

After Brick Pollitt (Paul Newman) injures himself while drunkenly revisiting his high school sports-star days, he and his tempestuous wife, Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor), visit his family's Mississippi plantation for the 65th birthday of his hot-tempered father, Big Daddy (Burl Ives). Cantankerous even with declining health, Big Daddy demands to know why Brick and Maggie haven't yet given him a grandchild, unlike Brick's brother Gooper (Jack Carson) and his fecund wife, Mae (Madeleine Sherwood).

This Happy Breed 1944 (115minutes) Robert Newton, Celia Johnson

From the play by Noel Coward

In 1919, Frank Gibbons (Robert Newton) returns home from army duty and moves into a small middle-class house, bringing with him wife Ethel (Celia Johnson), carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint (Amy Veness), sister-in-law Sylvia (Alison Leggatt) and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival. By the time the children have grown into adults, another war is looming.

 

Casablanca 1943 (102minutes) Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman

Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), who owns a nightclub in Casablanca, discovers his old flame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) is in town with her husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid). Laszlo is a famed rebel, and with Germans on his tail, Ilsa knows Rick can help them get out of the country.