Million Dollar Theater Articles
Cornel Wilde/THE BIG COMBO, Dick Powell/Lizabeth Scott/PITFALL: Million Dollar Theater Film Noir Double Bill
Joseph H. Lewis' The Big Combo (1955) and André De Toth's Pitfall (1948, right, with Dick Powell) will be screened as a film noir double bill at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at downtown Los Angeles' historic Million Dollar Theater. I haven't watched either movie, but the Los Angeles Times' Kenneth Turan's warns: The Big Combo's "big, dark shadows … will eat you alive." [...]
MEMORIES OF A MEXICAN Screening: Documentary Composed of Actual Footage from the Mexican Revolution
According to the Million Dollar Theater site, the screening of Memories of a Mexican (1950) at 7 p.m. on Thursday, November 20, "will showcase the historic documentary feature" about the Mexican Revolution, which consists of pioneer Mexican filmmaker Salvador Toscano's original film material — shot in the 1910s and featuring the likes of Pancho Villa and others — "edited into a narrative" by his daughter [...]