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The Friends of the La Jolla Library presents Film Noir Classics, shown on the second Friday of every month at 2:00pm.
January 12, 2018 - The Lady from Shanghai (1947), starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles. Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.
February 9, 2018 - Casablanca (1942), starring Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart. In Casablanca in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate encounters a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
March 9, 2018 - Trapped (1949), starring Lloyd Bridges. U.S. Treasury Department agents go after a ring of counterfeiters.
April 13, 2018 - Blake of Scotland Yard (1937), starring Ralph Byrd and Joan Barclay. A 15 episode serial in which Blake battles the "Scorpion" over possession of a 'death ray' machine.
May 11, 2018 - Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937), starring John Barrymore and John Howard. Captain Drummond travels to Switzerland in order to marry his girlfriend but the disappearance of a dangerous cargo of explosives makes him delay his plans.
June 8, 2018 - Beat the Devil (1953), starring Humphrey Bogart and Gina Lollobrigida. On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They met and things happen...