In last year's FNF tribute to 1948, its pairing with RAW DEAL was arguably the strongest double bill in the entire series. It's hard to go wrong with any kind of combination of Mann and Alton.
That said, Alfred Werker was not quite chopped liver--a veteran career with many interesting highlights over thirty-plus years of filmmaking. Here are a few Werker titles, both well-known and obscure, that deserve your attention:
3 HOURS TO KILL (1954, noir-ish western with Dana Andrews--flashbacks override the Technicolor...) Colin's writeup at his blog is a fine look at it:
https://livius1.com/2016/08/11/three-hours-to-kill/
LOST BOUNDARIES (1949) social problem melo-noir about light-skinned blacks attempting to "pass"...
REPEAT PERFORMANCE (1947) a favorite "fantasy melo-noir" of our dear departed Dan H.
SHOCK (1946) Vincent Price is suitably menacing in this "booby hatch noir"...
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1939) The beginning of the Rathbone-Bruce collaboration...
BIG TOWN GIRL (1937) Fizzy comedy with Claire Trevor at her most energetic
BACHELOR's AFFAIRS (1931) Solid pre-code "rom com" with Adolphe Menjou, snappy stuff!
We can't quite get a full-fledged "auteurist" festival out of Werker's filmography, but he could be paired with another anonymous director for a quite solid "blast from the past" for rarely-screened Olde Hollywood titles. Several of his other westerns could qualify for inclusion, though that's a genre that remains tricky to program theatrically...
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