(Eugene Forde, US 1941, 70 min.)

8:30 p.m. SAN ANTONIO ROSE

(Charles Lamont, US 1941, 65 min.)

Hollywood studios in the Golden Age were very much like factories, but the product they turned out was slick, streamlined, and worked perfectly. Film scholar and preservationist Michael Schlesinger will present this pair of 1941 “B” movies in a program that shows how even “quickies” can provide fabulous entertainment. In Buy Me That Town, Lloyd Nolan leads a cast of great character actors as a gangster who finds himself in a bankrupt village ready-made for scamming. In San Antonio Rose, a bunch of struggling musicians try to reopen an abandoned roadhouse in a zesty musical comedy, with terrific vocals by the legendary Merry Macs, hilarious comedy from Eve Arden, and the once-in-a-lifetime teaming of Lon Chaney Jr. and Shemp Howard as a faux Abbott and Costello. Preceded by CHOW HOUND (Chuck Jones, US 1951, 7 min.). Three films for one admission price.