IDA LUPINO, TRIPLE THREAT: DIRECTOR, ACTOR, SCREENWRITER December 2024 at the Trylon Cinema

IDA LUPINO, TRIPLE THREAT: DIRECTOR, ACTOR, SCREENWRITER
Born in London, Lupino would become a force in front of the camera and the most prominent woman filmmaker in Hollywood during the 1950s. Often refusing bad roles, she was suspended from her Warner Bros. acting contract. This allowed her to work on her own scripts and directorial projects, becoming only the second woman to join the Director’s Guild. By the end of her career, she had been in nearly sixty films and had directed eight features and over a hundred television episodes in nearly every genre.

Sunday, December 1–Tuesday, December 3
THE HITCH-HIKER
(1953, 71m) dir Ida Lupino w/Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman. In Lupino’s taut psychopath-on-the-run film noir, two hapless friends pick up an escaped killer who, at gunpoint, tries to pull them into his madness. SUN 7:30 MON/TUE 7:00 8:30

Sunday, December 8–Tuesday, December 10
OUTRAGE
(1950, 75m) dir Ida Lupino w/Mala Powers, Tod Andrews, Robert Clarke. On the eve of her wedding, Ann Walton is sexually assaulted while coming home from work. Unable to face society, she runs away and takes a job on a ranch under an assumed name. Lupino’s film is one of the first to address recovery from sexual assault; she had to fight the Production Code Office to get the film released. SUN 7:00 MON/TUE 7:00 8:30

Sunday, December 15–Tuesday, December 17
ON DANGEROUS GROUND
(1951, 82m) dir Ida Lupino, Nicholas Ray w/Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond. Hard-bitten city detective Jim Wilson (Ryan) is sent upstate to investigate a murder. He becomes embroiled with a blind woman (Lupino) whose brother is the prime suspect. Though Lupino codirects with Ray, her virtuoso style shines through in the handheld camera shots and snowy expanses. SUN 8:00 MON/TUE 7:00 8:45

Sunday, December 22 & Monday, December 23
BEWARE MY LOVELY
(1952, 77m) dir Harry Horner w/Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Taylor Holmes. On Christmas Eve 1918, war widow and innkeeper Helen Gordon (Lupino) hires veteran and handyman Howard Wilton (Ryan) to do some work around the house. She becomes a prisoner in her own home under the paranoid, violent Howard. SUN 8:00 MON/TUE 7:00 8:45

Sunday, December 29–Tuesday, December 31
HIGH SIERRA
(1941, 100m) dir Raoul Walsh w/Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis. Roy Earle (Bogart), convicted with a life sentence, is unexpectedly pardoned by a corrupt governor with mob connections so that he can help a crew knock over a California resort. Lupino is fantastic in the role of Marie, and the thrilling script (cowritten by John Huston and W. R. Burnett) helps cement High Sierra as one of the greatest films noir of the 1940s. SUN 7:45 MON/TUE 7:00 9:00