Classic Movies, Old AND New

There is NO FEE for this service.
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PLENTY of Public Parking a block closer to the Bevo Mill @ Walsh/Duke & Gravois!
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After the movie, we will gather in the lobby for lively, provocative, and insightful conversation--OR as close as we can come to that, anyway--HA!
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This film is screening as part of Arkadin’s NOIRVEMBER series, $3 Sunday matinees of film noir classics that spotlight the broken dreams and bitter paranoia of this distinctly American genre.
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JERRY SAYS: Starring William Talman as Emmett Myers, a completely different role than Perry Mason's #1 adversary!

Please patronize this series so we can have MORE NOIR @ The Arkadin!
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“Absolutely assured in her creation of the bleak, noir atmosphere – whether in the claustrophobic confines of the car, or lost in the arid expanses of the desert – Lupino never relaxes the tension for one moment… Taut, tough, and entirely without macho-glorification, it’s a gem, with first-class performances from its three protagonists, deftly characterised without resort to cliché.” – Time Out Film Guide

An A-List actress-turned-independent writer, producer, and director, Ida Lupino is one of the few female filmmakers to have worked in 1950s Hollywood. But her films are not just “famous firsts” — they’re tough, raw, sensitive and totally fresh. Unlike anything else being made at the time, Lupino’s directorial efforts “represent”—as no less an authority than Martin Scorsese put it—”a singular achievement in American cinema.” And there’s no better example of Lupino’s muscular work than her legendary noir-thriller, THE HITCH-HIKER. Based on true events, the film takes us on the vacation from hell, as businessmen Edmond O’Brien and Frank Lovejoy, on their way to do some fishing, pick up the wrong guy: psychopath William Talman. A major influence on films like The Hitcher, THE HITCH-HIKER is a “tension-packed tour de force” (Ronnie Scheib). No wonder it was Lupino’s personal favorite of her films.

NOTE: On Rotten Tomatoes, this movie has a 94% on the Tomatometer and a 63% on the Popcornmeter.
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The Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

https://arkadincinema.com/event/ida-lupinos-gripping-noir-classic-the-hitch-hiker-1953/ [Includes Trailer]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitch-Hiker
https://www.scripts.com/script/the_hitch-hiker_20429

More info and buy tickets here (Be sure to pick the Lincoln as it will also play at the Chase Park Cinema later that week):
Remaining Native – SLIFF 2025

There is NO FEE for this service.
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PLENTY of Public Parking a block closer to the Bevo Mill @ Walsh/Duke & Gravois!
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After the movie, we will gather in the lobby for lively, provocative, and insightful conversation--OR as close as we can come to that, anyway--HA!
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This film is screening as part of Arkadin’s NOIRVEMBER series, $3 Sunday matinees of film noir classics that spotlight the broken dreams and bitter paranoia of this distinctly American genre.
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JERRY SAYS: Also features Beverly Garland as Miss Foster (as Beverly Campbell) and Neville Brand as Chester!

Please patronize this series so we can have MORE NOIR @ The Arkadin!
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“A breakneck, almost berserk spin on the classic detective yarn” – Eddie Muller, host of TCM’s Noir Alley

How’s this for a premise?: A mysterious stranger pours a toxin into a man’s drink, and now the man has only a week to find his murderer before the poison kills him. That’s the basis for this frenzied film noir classic starring Edmond O’Brien (whom you might recognize from The Hitch-Hiker, also screening this month at Arkadin) as hapless accountant Frank Bigelow, who is unwittingly embroiled in a complex web of intrigue as he races to save his own life. Bigelow embarks on a lurid odyssey of double-dealing, betrayal and murder that begins with “one of cinema’s most innovative opening sequences” (BBC) and leads to a nightmarish climax. Preserved by the National Film Registry, this brooding, paranoid classic is powered by O’Brien’s fevered, nearly unhinged, performance as well as director Rudolph Maté’s shadowy direction.

NOTE: On Rotten Tomatoes, this movie has an 88% on the Tomatometer and a 75% on the Popcornmeter.
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The Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

https://arkadincinema.com/event/a-man-investigates-his-own-murder-in-d-o-a-1950-3/ [Includes Trailer]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.O.A._(1950_film)
https://www.scripts.com/script/d.o.a._6197

SCHEDULE
3PM - Orson Welles radio broadcast pre-show
4PM - THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953)

November 2025 Schedule
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General Admission - $9

5228 Gravois Avenue | St. Louis, MO 63116
Microcinema in the Heart of Bevo!
https://arkadincinema.com/events/
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Since this 50-seat theater DOES sell out its most popular events, it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you buy your tickets online asap.

There is NO FEE for this service.
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PLENTY of Public Parking a block closer to the Bevo Mill @ Walsh/Duke & Gravois!
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After the movie, we will gather in the lobby for lively, provocative, and insightful conversation--OR as close as we can come to that, anyway--HA!
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OTHER WORLDS brings you to strange new realms through science fiction and fantasy. Featuring classics, hidden gems, and cult favorites, this series offers a mind-bending retreat from our mundane reality.
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Based on *The War of the Worlds *by H. G. Wells.

“The best of the postwar American science-fiction films; the Martian machines have a quality of real terror, their sinister apparitions, prowlings and pulverisings are spectacularly well done, and the scenes of panic and destruction are staged with real flair!” – Monthly Film Bulletin
Thankfully, neither Ice Cube nor Amazon Prime comes within a mile of this timeless classic of science-fiction terror! A mysterious, meteorlike object has landed in a small California town. All clocks have stopped. A fleet of glowing green UFOs hovers menacingly over the entire globe. The Martian invasion of Earth has begun, and it seems that nothing—neither military might nor the scientific know-how of nuclear physicist (and MST3k “mad” namesake) Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry)—can stop it. In the expert hands of genre specialists George Pal and Byron Haskin, H. G. Wells’s end-of-civilization classic receives a chilling Cold War–era update, complete with hallucinatory Technicolor and visionary, Oscar-winning special effects. Emblazoned with iconographic images of 1950s science fiction, The War of the Worlds is both an influential triumph of visual imagination and a still-disquieting document of the wonder and terror of the atomic age.

Come out early for a pre-show starting at 4 pm where we’ll listen to the broadcast that traumatized a nation, Orson Welles’ legendary 1938 dramatic radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ novel.

The Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.
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NOTE: On Rotten Tomatoes, this movie has an 89% on the Tomatometer and a 71% on the Popcornmeter.

https://arkadincinema.com/event/the-war-of-the-worlds-1953-w-orson-welles-radio-broadcast-pre-show-4-pm-other-worl/ [Includes Trailer]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1953_film)
https://www.scripts.com/script/the_war_of_the_worlds_23061