(Norman Foster, US 1948, 80 min.)

then at 8:30 p.m. BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT

(Fritz Lang, US 1956, 80 min.)

Legendary leading lady Joan Fontaine stars in a pair of films noir opposite two of the genre’s great male stars. In Kiss the Blood, Fontaine is a lonely nurse and war widow who shelters murderer-on-the-lam Burt Lancaster in fog-enshrouded London. Noir fixture Miklos Rosza provides the lovely music. In Beyond, Fontaine’s co-star Dana Andrews plays a man who masquerades as a murderer in order to get a first-hand view of the justice system, with disastrous results. Master thriller craftsman Lang’s last American film, like many of his best, entwines apparently opposing themes like criminality and morality, license and restraint, and culpability and innocence in such a way as to render them virtually indistinguishable from one another. Two films for one admission price. Members admitted free.