Serving Boone, Blowing Rock, Banner Elk, and other towns of the North Carolina High Country
Founded 05-05-05
March 1, 2007 issue
Upcoming Films at the Hayes Performing Arts Center in March
Compiled by Allison Peacock
March films at the Hayes Center include light-hearted flights of fancy, film noir and a hard-boiled look at politics, among other offerings. Admission to shows is $5 and tickets are available at the box office prior to the show. For info, call the Hayes Center at 828-295-9627.
Movie: Double Indemnity (1944)
Date: Friday, March 2
Times: 2:30 and 7:00 p.m.
Description: Insurance agent Walter Neff plots with attractive Phyllis Dietrichson to murder her husband. After the husband has been tricked into signing a double indemnity accident policy, Walter and Phyllis kill him to make it look like an accident. Insurance investigator Barton Keyes doesn't believe the death was an accident and pursues the case, linking Phyllis with everyone but his friend Walter. The film stars Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson.
Movie: E.T. (1982)
Date: Saturday, March 3
Times: 2:30 and 7:00 p.m.
Description: While visiting Earth, a group of alien botanists is discovered by humans and they hastily depart, leaving behind one of their own. Fortunately, the extraterrestrial finds a friend and emotional companion in 10-year-old Elliot. Still, the alien’s wish to go home again is strong. Steven Spielberg directed this touching movie about intergalactic friendship.
Movie: The Big Sleep (1946)
Date: Sunday, March 4
Times: 2:30 and 7:00 p.m.
Description: Summoned by the dying General Sternwood, private eye Philip Marlowe is asked to deal with several problems that are troubling Sternwood’s family. Marlowe finds that each problem centers about the disappearance of Sternwood's favored employee who has left with a mobster's wife. The plot thickens when murder follows murder. The incomparable Bogart plays Philip Marlowe, and Lauren Bacall plays love interest Vivian Sternwood Rutledge.
Movie: Bullitt (1968)
Date: Monday, March 5
Times: 2:30 and 7:00 p.m.
Description: Frank Bullitt is selected by Chalmers, a politician with ambition, to lead a team guarding a Mafia informant. The team is ambushed, and the witness is left at death's door by two hit men who seem to know exactly where the witness was hiding. Bullitt begins a search for both the killer and the leak, but he must keep the witness alive long enough to make sure the killers return. The film stars Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn and Jacqueline Bisset.
Movie: Key Largo (1948)
Date: Wednesday, March 7
Times: 2:30 and 7:00 p.m.
Description: Embittered war veteran Frank McCloud visits his old friend's hotel and finds a gangster running things. While others at the hotel bristle at the thought of being held captive by the gangsters, McCloud refuses to get involved. Eventually, McCloud comes face to face with the mob leader in a deadly final confrontation. This film is another Bogart-Bacall vehicle, and also stars Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore and Claire Trevor.
Movie: Fantasia (1940)
Dates: Sunday, March 11
Times: 1:00, 4:00 and 7:00 p.m.
Description: Disney animators set pictures to classical music as Leopold Stokowski conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra. The eight animation sequences are colorful, impressive, free-flowing, abstract and often surrealistic. They include the most famous of all, Paul Dukas' "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" with Mickey Mouse as the title character battling brooms carrying endless buckets of water.
Movie: American Graffiti (1974)
Date: Monday, March 12
Times: 2:30 and 7:00 p.m.
Description: This coming-of-age tale features four teenagers on their last summer night before college. They spend a final evening cruising the strip and have every adventure possible before dawn when they each have to decide what they will do. The cast includes Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard and Cindy Williams.
Movie: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Date: Wednesday, March 14
Times: 2:30 and 7:00 p.m.
Description: McMurphy already has several assault convictions and finds himself in jail again. This time, the charge is statutory rape when it turns out that his girlfriend lied about her age. Rather than spend his time in jail, McMurphy convinces the guards that he's crazy enough to need psychiatric care and is sent to a hospital. He rallies the patients together to take on the oppressive Nurse Ratched, a woman who is more a dictator than nurse. Jack Nicholson plays McMurphy and won a Best Actor Oscar for the role. Louise Fletcher is Nurse Ratched and won a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal.
Movie: 101 Dalmatians (1961)
Date: Saturday, March 17
Times: 11:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Description: Two Dalmatians, Pongo and Perdita, have a litter of 15 puppies. Evil fashion designer Cruella De Vil takes a fancy to the pups and wants them, as well as more pups, to make herself a lovely Dalmatian skin coat. Cruella hires some thugs to kidnap the pups and hold them at her mansion. Will Pongo and Perdita find them in time?
Movie: All the King’s Men (1949)
Date: Sunday, March 18
Times: 2:30 and 7:00 p.m.
Description: This film, based on Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by the same name, charts the rise and fall of politician Willie Stark, a character with striking similarities to Louisiana politician Huey Long. The film stars Broderick Crawford as Stark and John Ireland as Jack Burden. The movie won three Oscars, including a Best Actor Oscar for Crawford.
Movie: Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Date: Monday, March 19
Times: 2:30 and 7:00 p.m.
Description: Famous detective Hercule Poirot is on board the Orient Express when the train is caught in the snow. When one of the passengers is discovered murdered, Poirot starts investigating. He discovers that many of the passengers have some connection to a 5-year-old case where an infant was kidnapped and murdered in which the mastermind escaped prosecution. Albert Finney plays Poirot, and the cast also includes Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Berman, Jacqueline Bisset, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Anthony Perkins and Vanessa Redgrave.