(Frank Tuttle, US 1931, 63 min.)

then at 9 p.m. WHITE WOMAN

(Stuart Walker, US 1933, 68 min.)

Screen icon Carole Lombard stars in a pair of racy features from a brief period of relaxed censorship in Hollywood. First, Lombard is a secretary who doesn’t know she’s in for a surprise when she plans to marry the layabout heir to a soap fortune. Rochester’s own Louise Brooks co-stars! Then, in the lush White Woman, a torch singer (Lombard) banished from Malay nightclubs for “arousing” the natives, absconds with a sadistic plantation owner (Charles Laughton) who takes turns tyrannizing his new wife and his pet monkey. This wacky precursor to Apocalypse Now offers a heady brew of tribal insurrections, sexy ex-convicts, and a delirious Laughton as self-appointed “King of the Jungle.” Two films for one admission price.