(Fritz Lang, US 1953, 90 min., 35mm)

Determined to bust a mob crime ring, cop Glenn Ford teams with moll Gloria Grahame after her vicious ex-boyfriend Lee Marvin hurls a pot of hot coffee in her face. A major architect of the noir style, director Lang blends the genre’s conventions with hard-hitting ’50s exposés to present one of the decade’s best films. At 8:45 p.m.: HUMAN DESIRE (Fritz Lang, US 1952, 90 min., 35mm) Lang reteamed his Big Heat stars for this gripping Americanized noir of Zola’s novel La Bete Humaine. Gloria Grahame seduces railroad man Glenn Ford and involves him with a plot to do away with her slob of a husband, Broderick Crawford.