The Sunday 4/21 6:00pm showtime will be introduced by writer/director Paul Schrader.

Both Jean Renoir’s 1938 film The Human Beast with Jean Gabin and Fritz Lang’s 1954 film Human Desire are adaptations from French novelist Émile Zola’s 1890 psychological thriller La Bête humaine. When he’s fired from his job at the railroad, Carl Buckley (Broderick Crawford) asks his wife, Vicki (Gloria Grahame), to pay a visit to his boss, Owens (Grandon Rhodes), to try to earn his sympathies. It works, but Carl then assumes that Vicki and Owens are involved romantically, so he murders his boss in a jealous rage. Sick of her husband’s violent ways, Vicki seduces Jeff (Glenn Ford, in Gabin’s role), another worker at the railroad, hoping that she can convince him to murder her husband. 

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Choose Your Own Double Bill

During Hollywood’s Golden Era, the double bill was a popular concept, offering two films for the price of one ticket.  The second feature — nicknamed B movie — was usually a smaller budget film, with actors lesser known than the studios’ biggest stars.  Columbia was famous for its gritty, inventive B movies, often crime films. In homage to that tradition, we also offer our take on a double bill:

Present your ticket to any one of these four “A” movies  – The Big Heat / Human Desire / In a Lonely Place / The Lady From Shanghai – for a free ticket to any one of the B movies – Murder by Contract / Scandal Sheet / So Dark the Night / Walk a Crooked Mile. 

The two films do not need to be on the same day, and the free ticket can only be redeemed in person at the Box Office.