Mondays, July 14-August 25 (except August 4). Today featuring: THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1949).

Welcome to "Noirville". Where the women are dames, the men are saps, and trouble lurks around ever corner. Where a palooka is just as likely to catch a slug as an even break. Where summer is hotter than a honeymoon hotel.

Join Library staffer Chris Boerger for a collection of classic crime dramas from the 1940s & 1950s, and keep your cool this summer. A hard-boiled discussion follows each film, see? Welcome to "Noirville", baby. Population: You.

7 pm on the following Mondays:

July 14-They Live by Night (1949)
An escaped convict is caught between romance & one more heist. Director Nicholas Ray's first feature film. Considered the forerunner of Bonnie and Clyde (1967).

July 21-The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
A traveling couple becomes entangled in betrayal & murder. Starring Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth. Directed by Welles.

July 28-In a Lonely Place (1950)
A tough screenwriter fights murder accusations & finds love. Considered one of Humphrey Bogart's finest performances. On Time magazine's "All-Time 100 List" and selected for preservation in the Library of Congress in 2007.

(August 4-"We're taking a week off. Scram.")

August 11-The Killing (1956)
One last heist gone wrong. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.

August 18-Night of the Hunter (1955)
An evil preacher preys on a family for stolen money. Starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish. The only film Charles Laughton directed.

August 25-On Dangerous Ground (1952)
A hardened city cop gets mixed up in a countryside murder investigation. Directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Robert Ryan.


* All shows screened in large, digital projection in the library's Meeting Room.
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