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2018 Vintage Movie Nights
by Alan Hague
posted: Feb. 02, 2018

Film historian Eric Grayson begins the monthly Vintage Movie Nights at Garfield Park Arts Center on Saturday, January 27, at 7 p.m., with a 1934 independent feature released through Universal, I Can't Escape, starring Onslow Stevens and Lila Lee.
Vintage Movie Nights were named one of NUVO's "150 Reasons to Love Living in Indy." Grayson has been screening films rarely seen elsewhere for several years at the Garfield Park Arts Center.
I Can't Escape survives today, according to Grayson, because it was edited and reprinted as a half-hour television show. The version being shown at Garfield, however, is the complete version, one of the only prints in the world to survive. (The copy on archive.org was made from this print.)
Handsome ex-con Steve Nichols (Stevens) is unable to get work during the Great Depression. Desperate for any income, he is taken in by some financial con artists who intend to use him to raise investment funds, steal the money, and leave him looking like the guilty party.
I Can't Escape is an engaging film with lovely Art Deco sets, added Grayson, one of the better independent products of the period.
The remainder of the 2018 Vintage Movie Night selections are as follows:
Feb 17: Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Mar 3: One Body Too Many (1944)
Apr 28: The Pay-Off (1942)
May 19: Mark of Zorro (1920) - live piano score
June 9: It's a Gift (1934)
July: My Little Chickadee (1940)
Aug 25: WC Fields Short Films (1930-33)
Sep 29: Origins of Cinema
Oct: Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
Nov 10: WWII Training films
Dec 1: Laddie (1940)
Admission is $5; concessions $1. Free parking. For more information, visit www.gpacarts.org or call 317.327.7135. For more information on Grayson, visit www.drfilm.net/blog; his website, www.filmeric.com; and follow him on Facebook at www.drfilm.net/facebook.


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