(HARD DRIVER, Lamont Johnson, US 1973, 100 min.)

then at 9:00 p.m. A SMALL TOWN IN TEXAS

(Jack Starrett, US 1976, 95 min.)

Jeff Bridges stars as real-life moonshine-runner turned champion race-car driver in The Last American Hero, another gem of 1970s character-driven cinema co-starring Valerine Perrine, Ned Beatty, and Gary Busey. Then, The Last Picture Show’s Timothy Bottoms stars in A Small Town in Texas as an ex-convict who comes home from jail, only to be railroaded again by a crooked sheriff (Bo Hopkins), who has also stolen his wife (Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry’s Susan George).

(GIÙ LA TESTA/A FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE, Sergio Leone, Italy 1971, 157 min.)

Little seen and previously only available in butchered versions, this underappreciated Leone Western stars James Coburn as an Irish terrorist trying to flee from his bitter past in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution, and Rod Steiger plays a crude Mexican peasant who robs banks to liberate political prisoners. The film reveals a striking political consciousness and, as you’d expect in a Leone film, a great score by Ennio Morricone.

(Henry Hathaway, US 1953, 89 min.)

Marilyn Monroe is one of the screen’s definitive femmes fatales in this rarefilm noir shot in Technicolor™. On honeymoon in Niagara Falls, a young bride(Monroe) plans to murder her war vet husband (the always intriguing Joseph Cotton), who himself has murder on his mind. Ah, l’amour!

(POTE TIN KYRIAKI, Jules Dassin, Greece 1960, 91 min.)

In her star-making performance, the beguiling Melina Mercouri plays a Greek prostitute who attracts an uptight American Grecophile (played by director Dassin, later Mercouri’s husband). She sees nothing immoral about the way she earns a living, he sees her as a symbol for the fall of ancient Greece, and the two proceed to “reform” each other. The theme song by Manos Hatzidakis became a major international hit. Members admitted free.

(William Wyler, US 1953, 118 min.)

In her first principal role, Audrey Hepburn is a runaway princess who falls for a “Prince Charming” commoner—an American reporter (Gregory Peck) covering the royal tour in Rome. Wyler’s bittersweet fairy-tale romance, shot entirely o location in Rome, was reportedly based on the real-life Italian adventures of British Princess Margaret. Presented through the support of the Cornell/Weinstein Family Foundation, in loving memory of Regina Cornell.