Screening added on January 8!

Called the first camp movie by no less than Roger Ebert, Beat the Devil offers a wry send-up of noir classics, taking special aim at Huston’s own Maltese Falcon (with Bogart and Peter Lorre playing comic variations on their roles and The African Queen’s Robert Morley subbing for the late Sydney Greenstreet). Huston directed from a script co-written by Truman Capote about a bevy of crooks awaiting passage to Kenya where they hope to cash in on uranium mines. Featuring a show-stealing turn by Jennifer Jones, here liberated by Huston to tap the full range of her gifts as a comedienne.