Tuesday, December 11, 2018, 7:30 p.m., Dryden Theatre
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The Golf Specialist (1930)
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The Golf Specialist
(Monte Brice, US 1930, 20 min., 35mm)
The Night Ride
(John S. Robertson, US 1930, 60 min., 35mm)
Silent Tuesdays. As sound became a primary tool for filmmakers of the 1930s, fast-talking reporters and gangsters became a staple. In this film, Joseph Schildkraut is the reporter who links gangster Edward G. Robinson to a double murder and payroll robbery. When Robinson vows revenge, it’s a race against time to make sure that Schildkraut’s wife remains safe. Preceded by W. C. Fields’s first sound short that captures his popular Ziegfeld Follies sketch in which a con-man attempts to teach a hotel house detective’s wife how to play golf.