NC Philly (actually, NC Phoenixville: we still pine for NC Pennsyltucky...) is now announced with its ten-film lineup, screening July 21-23 with Eddie M. on hand.

One deviation from the 1948 summum annum bonnum approach is in place, along with EM's continuing insistence that UNFAITHFULLY YOURS is a noir (cinematographer Victor Milner made more films with Preston Sturges than actual films noirs). Unlike the wordy FNF news blurb, we'll now cut to chase:

Friday 7/21 WOMAN ON THE RUN (1950)/THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI
Saturday 7/22 LARCENY/THE SPIRITUALIST (matinee)*
THE BIG CLOCK/KEY LARGO (evening)
Sunday 7/23 RAW DEAL/NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES (matinee)
SORRY, WRONG NUMBER/UNFAITHFULLY YOURS (evening)

*erroneously referred to in the FNF blurb as a "two George Sherman films": Sherman had nothing to do with THE SPIRITUALIST.

It would be hard to pick 10 well-known noirs from 1948 that wouldn't produce a really solid festival...but the combinatorics here just seem downright strange. If you add HOLLOW TRIUMPH or HE WALKED BY NIGHT into the mix, an Alton triple bill could make Saturday afternoon into something special for the new audience. But the two chosen for screening are kept separate, which dilutes the effect. And the pairing of THE BIG CLOCK and KEY LARGO is extremely bizarre tonally...