(Josef von Sternberg, US 1935, 88 min.)

then 8:45 p.m. STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR

(Boris Ingster, US 1940, 65 min.)

Peter Lorre stars in a double feature of Hollywood thrillers that laid the ground work for the classic film noir style. First, in Crime and Punishment, Lorre stars as Dostoyevsky’s anti-hero Raskalnikov, haunted by the murder he’s committed and ensnared in a cat-and-mouse game with Inspector Porify (Edward Arnold). Then, in the crazily inventive Stranger on the Third Floor, Lorre is the title character and a newspaperman’s chief suspect in a murder case.