(Jean Negulesco, US 1948, 95 min.)

then at 8:45 p.m.

(Ida Lupino, US 1953, 71 min.)

This fun double feature of vintage noirs pays tribute to the enormous talents of Ida Lupino, one of the ’40s great leading ladies who also became a pioneering independent director. In Road House, Lupino stars as the singer who comes between two old enemies (a wonderfully unhinged Richard Widmark and the hunky Cornel Wilde) at a café on the American/Canadian border. Then, in The Hitch-Hiker, Lupino brings her talented directing skills to the story of two hunting pals (Frank Lovejoy and Edmond O’Brien) taken hostage by the psychopathic title character (William Talman). Two films for one admission price.