28 Sep 2019

Reel Classics: Fritz Lang Double: Ministry of Fear (1944) + Blue Gardenia (1953)

Reel Classics: Fritz Lang Double: Ministry of Fear (1944) + Blue Gardenia (1953)

Sat 28 September: 1-4pm

Reel McCoy Film Society presents bi-monthly film screenings of classic cinema.

Members are invited to purchase an annual Reel McCoy membership at the discounted price of $20 (usually $50/year) upon presentation of their current ACT M&G membership card.


Ministry of Fear (1944)
87 minutes, USA
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond

A young man has just been released from a mental asylum (sentenced in the first place for the mercy killing of his ailing wife). He feels both guilty and a little unsure of his own sanity, and the events that engulf him—as he becomes the accidental target of a Nazi spy ring—inflame both of these feelings.

The Blue Gardenia (1953)
90 minutes, USA
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, Raymond Burr

A telephone operator is dumped by her fiancé on her birthday and on a whim goes on a date with a stranger, whom she ends up having to fight off. She wakes the next morning with a hangover, little memory of what happened, and the fear she may have killed him.

Reel Classics: Fritz Lang Double: Ministry of Fear (1944) + Blue Gardenia (1953)

Sat 28 September: 1-4pm