Lakewood Public Library
Lakewood, Ohio
Lakewood Public Cinema Special Programming
During World War II, the crew of a small insignificant ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet experience an event unlike any event ever experienced by the United States Navy. A ship’s captain is removed from command by his Executive Officer in an apparent outright act of mutiny. As the trial of the mutineers unfold, it […]
Al Roberts (Tom Neal) plays the piano in a cheap New York nightclub. His girlfriend, who is the lead singer there, heads west to seek fame and fortune in the movies. Feeling forsaken, Al decides to hitchhike his way to Hollywood, catch up with her and live happily ever after. But this is film noir, […]
Lakewood Public Cinema Special Programming
This political drama film noir, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Actor (Broderick Crawford), and Best Supporting Actress (Mercedes McCambridge) in 1949, centers on the rise and fall of Willie Stark, an idealistic but ruthless politician in the American South, patterned after Louisiana Governor Huey Long. Staring Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Mercedes […]
Frank Enley (Van Heflin) and Joe Parkson (Robert Ryan) were best friends and served together during World War II. When they were captured by the Germans and spent time in a Nazi POW camp, something happened that changed their lives forever. Some years later the old wounds have not healed, and an angry confrontation becomes […]
Lakewood Public Cinema Special Programming
This film is a political drama about a fierce U.S. Senate battle over a controversial Secretary of State nominee, Robert Leffingwell. The confirmation hearings expose lies, political blackmail and hidden pasts, driving an idealistic senator to tragic despair as Washington politicians trade ethics for power. Staring Henry Fonda, Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Peter Lawford and […]
World War II veteran Nico Garcos (Richard Conte) returns home to find that his father has been maimed, and his trucking business hijacked. The man responsible is local mobster Mike Figlia (Lee J. Cobb). Garcos seeks revenge by loading a truck with apples and driving to Figlia’s marketplace to block his operation. As the conflict […]
Lakewood Public Cinema Special Programming
This film is based on the 1952 novella, Old Man and the Sea, written by the American author Ernest Hemingway. Written between December 1950 and February 1951, it was the last major fictional work Hemingway published during his lifetime. Exploring themes of human dignity and perseverance, the novella tells the story of Santiago, an aging […]
Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) returns home to LA after two years of drifting and trying to forget his ex-wife Anna (Yvonne De Carlo). He can’t. She is now married to mobster Slim Dundee (Dan Duryea), but they nevertheless become involved in a clandestine affair. He gets his old job back as an armored truck driver, […]
Lakewood Public Cinema Special Programming
This 1993 historical romantic drama film, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder and Miriam Margolyes, is based on Edith Wharton’s 1920 novel, Age of Innocence, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. New York society scion Newland Archer is […]