Classic San Francisco Double Feature: Barbary Coast and Dark Passage
Saturday, October 8
2pm-6pm
FREE

Spend a lazy Saturday with Meridian Gallery watching two classic San Francisco Films.  Light refreshments provided!

Barbary Coast (1935) is a period film directed by Howard Hawks. Shot in black-and-white and set in San Francisco during the Gold Rush era, a glittering masterpiece about gold, greed and 14-karat love. Finding her welathy fiance murdered, gorgeous gold digger Mary (Miriam Hopkins) loses no time hooking up with the richest crook in town (Edward G. Robinson). But when she unexpectedly falls for a handsome, idealistic miner, she soon learns just how much she'll risk for a love that's worth its weight in gold.

Dark Passage (1947) a film noir directed by Delmer Daves and starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Bogies on the lam and Bacall's at his side in this stylish film-noir thriller complete with exceptional views of San Francisco locations. Bogart is Vincent Parry, a prison escapee framed for murder who emerges from plastic surgery with a new face. Bacall is Irene Jansen, his lone ally. In sharp support, Agnes Moorehead plays a venomous harpy finding pleasure in the unhappiness of others.