Lindo Theatre's Film Noir Series Presents: The Maltese Falcon

Film Series Features Hardboiled Detectives,
Femmes Fatales in Vintage Setting

 Lindo Theatre will be shining a riveting black and white spotlight on four classics of the Film Noir genre in its upcoming Film Noir/Hardboiled Detectives Film Series. This film series is hosted by the Lindo Theatre, located at 115 S. Chicago Ave. in Freeport, IL, in partnership with the Stephenson County Historical Museum and Highland Community College. The series begins on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 with The Maltese Falcon, starring Humphrey Bogart. The films will be shown on select Wednesdays at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Admission is $20 for the series, or $5 per movie. Tickets are available at the Lindo box office. As an added bonus for those who purchase tickets to the entire series, the Lindo Theatre will offer complimentary admission to the 1936 musical favorite, Swing Time, on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, at 1 p.m. or 7 p.m.

Film noir is about what people want, how badly they want it and how far they will go to get it. For movie-lovers, noir is all about style: canted camera angles, dense shadows, and a romantic, doom-laden atmosphere, always in shimmering, high-contrast black and white. The Lindo's Film Noir/Hardboiled Detectives Film Series features Noir classics The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Murder, My Sweet and The Third Man. Visually stylish and always suspenseful, these dramas are among the very best of the 1940's and are considered among the greatest films of all time.

January 12: The Maltese Falcon
This 1941 Warner Bros. film is based on the book by Dashiell Hammett. Written and directed by John Huston, the film stars Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade and Mary Astor as his femme fatale client. Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed whilst tailing a man. The woman who asked him to follow the man turns out not to be who she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon,' a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind.

The series of Noir/Hardboiled Detective movies has been selected with the assistance of Dr. Ed Finch, executive director for the Freeport Historical Museum, and Alan Wenzel, the Speech and Communications Instructor for Highland Community College. There will be a brief introduction before each movie and a discussion led by Dr. Ed Finch and Alan Wenzel following the movie. Movie-goers are encouraged to stay after the movie to participate in this exchange. The series offers movie lovers a rare opportunity to see four Film Noir classics as originally intended – on a big screen with great sound in an entirely renovated, vintage 1922 theatre.