"You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything or do anything. Not a thing. Oh, well, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together...and blow."
It's hard to imagine anything more smoldering than Lauren Bacall in 1944's To Have and Have Not, just one of the films we've offered in our annual Winter Film Festival. In cooperation with the Sioux Falls Community Playhouse, the Society features a suite of film classics at the Playhouse each January. The winter series returns classic favorites to the big screen, such as Bogart and Hitchcock (Dial "M" for "Murder", Vertigo). In addition to the Winter Festival, the Society also offers special showings of classic film, either through non-theatrical 16mm distribution or from our own film archives. In collaboration with the Library of Congress' Film Preservation Tour and the historical Dells Theater in Dell Rapids, SD, the Society presented fully restored films from the Library's National Film Registry, including Dr. Strangelove, Duck Soup, Sunrise and On the Waterfront.
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, one of films featured in our Winter Film Classics, was made in 1948 by legendary director John Huston, winning Oscars for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for the director's father, Walter Huston. This adaptation of B. Traven's tale of gold, greed and human nature at its worst is stirringly told through the eyes of Bogart's Fred C. Dobbs. Bogart's transformation from a likable drifter to a homicidal, paranoid miner aptly demonstrates his amazing range, and Huston somehow adds his trademark landscape focus even to the most desolate scenes. |