The Invisible Man
Claude Rains spends most of 1933 as a voice and a set of bandages. James Whale's Universal horror still lands its effects, and the cackling holds up better than expected.
More at Ambler Theater
Dodsworth
William Wyler's 1936 marriage drama, running as a Deep Focus selection. Sunday afternoon screening at one, part of Hollywood Summer Nights.
Steel Magnolias: A Tribute to Dolly Parton
A tribute screening of the 1989 Louisiana beauty shop weepie, with Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Daryl Hannah and a young Julia Roberts. One show, seven o'clock.
Queen Kelly
Erich von Stroheim's troubled 1932 Gloria Swanson picture, rarely booked anywhere. Two showtimes on the Hollywood Summer Nights calendar, 4:15 and 7.
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Canal-O-Ween
Close to five hundred carved jack o lanterns line the Delaware Canal towpath, lit by volunteers at sundown every night for a week. Free, rain or shine, with parking at the Fuld and Morgan lot.
The Innocents (1961)
Deborah Kerr as the governess in the Turn of the Screw adaptation. Whether the children see ghosts or she does is still argued about sixty years on.
Ashes Reign, Out of Darkness and AS-33
Three heavy bands on a Sunday. A small stage on Haverford Road with a long habit of booking bands nobody else will.
