Spunky Reporters and Con Artists

Spunky Reporters and Con Artists
Thursday, August 29th, 2024

Join us for an evening of Great Shows and a Chinese Dinner - movies are FREE, just pay for your dinner!!

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6:00 pm – Smart Blonde – (The 1st Torchy Blane Movie)
1937 ‧ Adventure/Comedy ‧ 60 mins

Starring – Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane
Director - Frank McDonald
Smart Blonde is a 1937 American mystery film directed by Frank McDonald. Starring Glenda Farrell as Torchy Blane, a smart, sassy, wisecracking female reporter teaming up with her boyfriend, detective Steve McBride to solve the killing of an investor who just bought a popular local nightclub. This is the first of nine Torchy Blane films by Warner Bros.
Ratings –
6.4/10 IMDb
3.2/5 Letterboxd
96% Google users
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7:15 pm – House of Games (1987) – 102 min | Mystery-Neo Noir

Stars: Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum, Lilia Skala, J.T. Walsh
Director: David Mamet
Screenplay: David Mamet and Jonathan Katz

A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men (IMDb).
House of Games is an American neo-noir film described as a richly conceived character study, a complex cinematic con game, and above all else a grand magic act (Brian Eggert). The film is by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Mamet in his directorial debut. Roger Ebert gave the film his highest rating, saying, "This movie is awake. I have seen so many films that were sleepwalking through the debris of old plots and second-hand ideas that it was a constant pleasure to watch House of Games."

Ratings –
78% Metacritic
7.2/10 IMDb
97% Rotten Tomatoes
79% Rotten Tomatoes Audience