Slightly Scarlet at Cultural Center
Slightly Scarlet
SLIGHTLY SCARLET (1956) 99 min RKO. D: Allen Dwan. James M. Cain’s hard-boiled Love’s Lovely Counterfeit is liberally adapted for the screen with a lurid emphasis on the duality of co-star knockouts Rhonda Fleming and Arlene Dahl. Portraying sisters under the décolletage, Fleming is the traditional good girl while Dahl consumes men and merchandise with equal abandon as a just-out- of-stir, lustful kleptomaniac. John Payne is tasked with blackmailing Fleming’s mayoral candidate boyfriend (Kent Taylor) for sinister rackets boss Ted de Corsia. But as the mounting betrayals are turbo-charged by the sexual energy of the two sisters with manes of flaming Technicolor red hair vying for Payne, matters quickly go off the rails! This kaleidoscopic fever dream was expertly lensed by ace noir cinematographer John Alton (Academy Award® winner for An American in Paris) and is now restored by the Film Noir Foundation in all of its wide screen and color-laden glory!
Scheduled Special Guest: Vincent Pirozzi, Vice President, Roundabout Entertainment Inc.
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Scheduled Special Guest: Vincent Pirozzi, Vice President, Roundabout Entertainment Inc.
SLIGHTLY SCARLET (1956) 99 min RKO. D: Allen Dwan. James M. Cain’s hard-boiled Love’s Lovely Counterfeit is liberally adapted for the screen with a lurid emphasis on the duality of co-star knockouts Rhonda Fleming and Arlene Dahl. Portraying sisters under the décolletage, Fleming is the traditional good girl while Dahl consumes men and merchandise with equal abandon as a just-out- of-stir, lustful kleptomaniac. John Payne is tasked with blackmailing Fleming’s mayoral candidate boyfriend (Kent Taylor) for sinister rackets boss Ted de Corsia. But as the mounting betrayals are turbo-charged by the sexual energy of the two sisters with manes of flaming Technicolor red hair vying for Payne, matters quickly go off the rails! This kaleidoscopic fever dream was expertly lensed by ace noir cinematographer John Alton (Academy Award® winner for An American in Paris) and is now restored by the Film Noir Foundation in all of its wide screen and color-laden glory!
Scheduled Special Guest: Vincent Pirozzi, Vice President, Roundabout Entertainment Inc.
Scheduled Special Guest: Vincent Pirozzi, Vice President, Roundabout Entertainment Inc.
Slightly Scarlet
SLIGHTLY SCARLET (1956) 99 min RKO. D: Allen Dwan. James M. Cain’s hard-boiled Love’s Lovely Counterfeit is liberally adapted for the screen with a lurid emphasis on the duality of co-star knockouts Rhonda Fleming and Arlene Dahl. Portraying sisters under the décolletage, Fleming is the traditional good girl while Dahl consumes men and merchandise with equal abandon as a just-out- of-stir, lustful kleptomaniac. John Payne is tasked with blackmailing Fleming’s mayoral candidate boyfriend (Kent Taylor) for sinister rackets boss Ted de Corsia. But as the mounting betrayals are turbo-charged by the sexual energy of the two sisters with manes of flaming Technicolor red hair vying for Payne, matters quickly go off the rails! This kaleidoscopic fever dream was expertly lensed by ace noir cinematographer John Alton (Academy Award® winner for An American in Paris) and is now restored by the Film Noir Foundation in all of its wide screen and color-laden glory!
Scheduled Special Guest: Vincent Pirozzi, Vice President, Roundabout Entertainment Inc.
