Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Ave
212.505.5181
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Raoul Walsh
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Aug 14, 2009 – Aug 22, 2009
Daily (schedule)
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$9
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Mid-century Hollywood had enough eye-patched directors roaming its lots to form a themed doo-wop group: John Ford, Fritz Lang, Nicholas Ray, André de Toth, and Raoul Walsh. Anthology handpicks two films from each auteur's oeuvre for this more-than-welcome series. Ford's heartfelt salute to servicemen in the Pacific Theater, They Were Expendable (1945), can be viewed as cinematic kin with Flying Leathernecks (1951), Ray's aerial ode also starring that cinematic synonym for machismo, John Wayne. De Toth turns ennui in LA into a penetrating noir for Pitfall (1948), while Walsh delivers tidy, love-will-prevail adventure with Gregory Peck in The World in His Arms (1952). And for his serio-comic You and Me (1938), Lang collaborated with none other than Kurt Weill.
