Pre-Code Hollywood: THE BLACK CAT!

1662 Broadway Boulevard,Kansas City MO 64108

17 March, 2022

Description

Design for Living is Lubitsch at his sexiest, entertainment at once debonair and racy, featuring three stars at the height of their allure. Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Black Cat has nothing to do with Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat. The credit that it’s even “suggested” by Poe’s story is a stretch -the First World War is a significant part of the backdrop of the film yet the story was written over seventy years before the war even happened. These are movies meant to showcase the stable of horror actors Universal had at its’ disposal in the 1930s, and The Black Cat is notable in that its’ the first movie to pair the big two: Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi. It’s a thrilling movie, peculiar and surprising and unusually sordid, while also charming and fittingly camp. Proof of vaccination or proof of negative test within the past 48 hours will be required to enter Stray Cat Film Center. Please contact us with any questions. Updated Mask Policy: To follow current CDC recommendations and comply with the current mask mandate in Kansas City Missouri, masks will be mandatory at Stray Cat Film Center. For the safety of other patrons and our volunteers, please keep your mask on unless you are actively eating or drinking. Thank you for complying, let us know if you have any questions. Stray Cat Film Center is an artist-run, non-profit micro-cinema. Organized by volunteer programmers, We screen everything from to documentaries to video art to cult films and is open to the entire range of moving image expressions – independent, activist, underground and bizarre. We are a space that supports all of KC’s cinematic communities and celebrates diversity of expression, fun & radical art.