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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.
June 9, 2017 - Nancy Drew Reporter (1939), starring Bonita Granville and John Litel. Nancy Drew clears a girl of murder charges.
July 14, 2017 - The Kennel Murder Case (1933), starring William Powell and Mary Astor. Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
August 11, 2017 - Criss Cross (1949), starring Burt Lancaster and Yvonne De Carlo. An armored truck driver and his lovely ex-wife conspire with a gang to have his own truch robbed on his route.
September 8, 2017 - Sunset Boulevard (1950), starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson. A screenwriter is hired to rework a faded silent film star's script only to find himself developing a dangerous relationship.
October, 13, 2017 - Th Big Clock (1948), starring Ray Milland and Charles Laughton. When powerful publishing tycoon Earl Janoth commits an act of murder at the height of passion, he cleverly begins to cover his tracks and frame an innocent man whose identity he doesn't know but who just happens to have contact with the murder victim.
The November 2017 movie Dark Passage (1947), starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, will be shown on Friday, November 17 instead of November 10 (the library will be closed on November 10 in honor of Veterans Day). Dark Passage is about a man convicted of murdering his wife who escapes from prison and works with a woman to tray and prove his innocence.