"Those are harsh words to throw at a man, especially when he's walking out of your bedroom."
The Big Sleep (1946) (3:35), 7:30
d Howard Hawks. w William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, & Jules Furthman, from the novel by Raymond Chandler. ph Sid Hickox. m Max Steiner. Warner Bros. 114 min.
Humphrey Bogart (Philip Marlowe), Lauren Bacall (Vivian Rutledge), John Ridgley (Eddie Mars), Martha Vickers (Carmen Sternwood), Dorothy Malone (Acme Book Shop Proprietress), Peggy Knudsen (Mona Grant Mars), Regis Toomey (Bernie Ohls), Charles Waldron (General Sternwood), Charles D. Brown (Norris), Bob Steele (Lash Canino), Elisha Cook, Jr. (Harry Jones), Louis Jean Heydt (Joe Brody), Sonia Darrin (Agnes Lozelle), Tom Rafferty (Carol Lundgren), Trevor Bardette (Art Huck), Dan Wallace (Owen Taylor), Joy Barlow (Taxi Driver ), Theodore Von Eltz (Arthur Gwynn Geiger), Tom Fadden (Sidney), Ben Welden (Pete). James Flavin (Captain Cronjager), Thomas Jackson (Taggart Wilde),
In this film noir masterpiece, detective Philip Marlowe (Bogart) is hired to discover why a woman is being blackmailed. The plot is much too complex to summarize (or even follow), but nobody doubts that The Big Sleep is one of the greatest detective films ever made.
Max Steiner's brilliant score perfectly captures the film noir mood, at times dark and explosive, at times ironic, at times strongly romantic.
The Big Sleep has been the twenty-fourth most widely
attended film at the Stanford Theatre — 35,126 tickets since 1989.
first played at the Stanford Theatre Oct 27, 1946; last played Sep 2024
To Have and Have Not (1945) 5:40,9:35
d Howard Hawks. w Jules Furthman & William Faulkner, from the novel by Ernest Hemingway. ph Sid Hickox. m Franz Waxman. Warner Bros. 100 min.
Humphrey Bogart (Harry Morgan), Walter Brennan (Eddie), Lauren Bacall (Marie Browning), Dolores Moran (Helene de Bursac), Hoagy Carmichael (Cricket), Walter Molnar (Paul de Bursac), Sheldon Leonard (Lt. Coyo), Marcel Dalio (Gerard), Walter Sande (Johnson), Dan Seymour (Capt. M. Renard), Aldo Nadi (Bodyguard), Paul Marion (Beauclerc), Patricia Shay (Mme. Beauclerc), Emmett Smith (Emil), Sir Lancelot (Horatio).
Bogart plays a fishing boat skipper-for-hire on the island of Martinique, who normally rents his boat out to wealthy sportsmen. He reluctantly becomes involved with the Nazis, the French Resistance — and with a stranded and very persistent young Lauren Bacall.
This enormously enjoyable film was Bacall's first. She and Bogie made a total of four films together.
To Have and Have Not has been the sixty-fifth most widely
attended film at the Stanford Theatre — 19,261 tickets since 1989.
first played at the Stanford Theatre Feb 11, 1945; last played Sep 2017
d John Huston. w Richard Brooks & John Huston. ph Karl Freund. m Max Steiner. Warner Bros. 101 min.
Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, Thomas Gomez, Harry Lewis, John Rodney, Marc Lawrence, Dan Seymour, Monte Blue, William Haade, Jay Silverheels, Rodric Redwing.
Robinson, a notorious racketeer, has taken over a Florida hotel owned by Lionel Barrymore and his widowed daughter-in-law, Lauren Bacall. Ex-army major Bogart arrives and minds his own business — at first.
"A suspenseful and entertaining minor classic." Baseline Movie Guide
first played at the Stanford Theatre Aug 29, 1948; last played Oct 2024
w/d Delmer Daves. ph Sid Hickox. m Franz Waxman. Warner Bros. 106 min.
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead, Tom D'Andrea, Clifton Young, Douglas Kennedy, Rory Mallinson, Houseley Stevenson.
A man wrongly convicted of killing his wife escapes from San Quentin and is befriended by a mysterious woman.
The first part of the story is shot entirely from Bogart's point of view, and the audience doesn't see his face until halfway through the picture.
first played at the Stanford Theatre October 12, 1947; last played Feb 2019
Some Like It Hot (1959) (3:20), 7:30
d Billy Wilder. w Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond. ph Charles Lang, Jr. m Adolph Deutsch. United Artists / Mirisch. 122 min.
Jack Lemmon (Jerry/Daphne), Tony Curtis (Joe/Josephine), Marilyn Monroe (Sugar Kane Kowalczyk), Joe E. Brown (Osgood Fielding III), George Raft (Spats Colombo), Pat O'Brien (Mulligan), Nehemiah Persoff (Little Bonaparte), George E. Stone (Toothpick Charlie), Joan Shawlee (Sweet Sue), Billy Gray (Sig Poliakoff), Dave Barry (Bienstock).
During the Roaring Twenties, two musicians (Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis) witness a gangland murder and are forced to hide out by joining an all-girl jazz orchestra.
This picture is widely regarded as one of the best comedies ever made. Marilyn Monroe singe I Wanna Be Loved By You, and Tony Curtis does a marvelous impersonation of Cary Grant; but Jack Lemmon's performance tops them all — Pauline Kael calls him "demoniacally funny".
Some Like It Hot has been the forty-first most widely attended
film at the Stanford Theatre — 25,938 tickets since 1989.
first played at the Stanford Theatre Mar 25, 1994; last played Sep 2025
The Seven Year Itch (1955) 5:35, 9:45
d Billy Wilder. w Billy Wilder, George Axelrod, from the play by George Axelrod. ph Milton Krasner. m Alfred Newman. 20th Century-Fox. 105 min.
Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Sonny Tufts, Evelyn Keyes, Robert Strauss, Oscar Homolka, Marguerite Chapman, Victor Moore.
While his wife is away on vacation, a man who has been married for seven years has guilty fantasies about the fascinating woman (Marilyn Monroe) in the upstairs apartment.
first played at the Stanford Theatre July 1, 1955; last played May 2013