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CITY :: 1948, DIR: CRANE WILBUR |
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Canon City (1948, Dir: Crane
Wilbur)
Friday, Oct. 24th, 8pm
Gallery Doors open at 7:15pm
This exciting film noir drama, shot in semi-documentary
style, reenacts a real-life Colorado prison break of 1947.
Scott Brady (younger brother of tough-guy actor Lawrence
Tierney) stars as a good-natured inmate caught in the
middle as the escaped convicts terrorize the town. The
cast also includes Jeff Corey, Whit Bissell, Star Trek's
DeForest Kelley, and in a documentary preface, the prison's
real-life warden and convicts.
The excellent photography was by the legendary Hungarian
cinematographer John Alton. Director Crane Wilbur began
his movie career in 1914, co-starring with Pearl White
in The Perils of Pauline. He switched from acting to screenwriting
and ultimately directing, making several prison films
along the way. His 1950 film Outside The Wall was shot
in Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, and his
next film, Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison, inspired
Johnny Cash to write one of his first hit records.
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