Revue Film Society: THE FUGITIVE - 30th Anniversary Screening!
Revue Film Society: THE FUGITIVE - 30th Anniversary Screening!
Thu, Mar 30, 7:00 PM
The Revue Cinema • Toronto, ON
$14.11 - $17.31
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Silent Revue: BEGGARS OF LIFE - 95th Anniversary Screening!
Join Silent Revue as they kick off the New Year with a 95th Anniversary Screening of BEGGARS OF LIFE!
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Revue Cinema 400 Roncesvalles Avenue Toronto, ON M6R 2M9 Canada
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Refunds up to 7 days before event
Eventbrite's fee is nonrefundable.
About this event
95th Anniversary Screening!
Our season-long look at Planes, Trains and Automobile continues with the rail-hopping thriller BEGGARS OF LIFE, starring the irresistible Louise Brooks. Co-starring Wallace Beery and Richard Arlen, BEGGARS OF LIFE is frequently cited as Brooks’ best American film, and under the direction of "Wild Bill" Wellman (of WINGS fame, which kicked off the current Silent Revue season), it is no wonder.
Brooks plays Nancy, who, on the lam after killing her abusive guardian, disguises her identity in hope of escaping to Canada. Tucking those signature bangs under a cap (don't worry -- they fall out from time to time) she passes as a boy among a gang of rail-riding hobos, where the threat of being revealed a killer takes a back seat to a more pressing danger: being exposed as a woman! Prefiguring many future Hollywood films’ treatment of hobo culture in the Great Depression, BEGGARS OF LIFE is a late silent-era masterpiece.
Courtesy of Paramount Pictures
Live accompaniment by Marilyn Lerner
Silent Revue is curated by Alicia Fletcher
Silent Revue is sponsored by Hollywood Suite
ABOUT THE FILM
BEGGARS OF LIFE
United States | 1928 | 74 mins. + short | Unrated
Dir. William Wellman
Cast: Louise Brooks; Richard Arlen; Wallace Beery
Regular admission applies. For INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIPS ($350 -$450) and FAMILY MEMBERSHIPS, please email us at info@revuecinema.ca to get a ticket!