Movie Night: Pickup on South Street

Please join us for a relaxed evening of film, friends, and community. Surprise thematic snacks and beverages. Please feel free to BYOB or food to share.  Thursday Movie Nights are sponsored by West Marin Workshop produced by Miguel Kuntz, and curated this month by Sally Phillips.

LOCATION: Ink Paper Plate, 11401 State Route 1, (at the gas station) Downtown Point Reyes Station

Thursdays, 7pm | $5 requested donation

Feb 8

Pickup on South Street is a 1953 Cold War spy film noir written and directed by Samuel Fuller, and released by the 20th Centnovel of ury Fox studio. The thriller stars Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, and Thelma Ritter.

Plot: Pickpocket Skip Mcoy accidentally picks the wrong pocket and becomes embroiled in the Cold War. Now everyone is after him.

Film Noir films for the rest of the month

Feb 15
In a Lonely Place is a 1950 film noir murder mystery directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, produced for Bogart's Santana Productions. The script was written by Andrew Solt from Edmund North's adaptation of Dorothy B. Hughes' 1947 the novel of the same name.

Plot: The blossoming love affair suffers as Laurel begins to wonder if her new love interest might be a killer. 

Feb 22
Laura is a 1944 American film noir detective story produced and directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb along with Vincent Price and Judith Anderson. The screenplay by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein and Betty Reinhardt is based on the 1943 novel Laura by Vera Caspary. One of the top 10 film noir movies of all time for its cinematic beauty, cultural & historical significance.

Plot: New York City Police Department detective Mark McPherson investigates the murder of a beautiful and highly successful advertising executive, Laura Hunt, who has apparently been killed by a shotgun blast to the face.