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The Affairs Of Susan (1945)

Charlotte Movies — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:15:01 +0000

1h. 45min. // Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancee summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual. Which one is the real Susan?

Directed by: William A. Seiter

Writing Credits: Thomas Monroe (screenplay), László Görög (screenplay)

Starring: Joan Fontaine (as Susan Darell), George Brent (as Roger Berton) and Dennis O’Keefe (as Bill Anthony)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1946. Best Writing, Original Story. Thomas Monroe and László Görög.

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That Wonderful Urge (1948)

Charlotte Movies — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:14:39 +0000

1h. 22min. // When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she’s met at Sun Valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely claiming they’re married.

Directed by: Robert B. Sinclair

Writing Credits: Jay Dratler (screenplay)

Starring: Tyrone Power (as Thomas Jefferson Tyler), Gene Tierney (as Sara Farley) and Reginald Gardiner (as Count André de Guyon).

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Bambi Awards 1951. Best Actor – International. Tyrone Power.

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Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) [Silent Movie]

Charlotte Movies — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:14:38 +0000

1h. 10min. // The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father’s crew.

Directed by: Charles Reisner

Writing Credits: Carl Harbaugh (story)

Starring: Buster Keaton (as William Canfield Jr.), Tom McGuire (as J.J. King) and Ernest Torrence (as William ‘Steamboat Bill’ Canfield).

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Awards:

WON. National Film Preservation Board, USA 2016. National Film Preservation Board.

NOMINATED. Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA 2013. Best DVD/Blu-Ray Collection.

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Father’s Little Dividend (1951)

Charlotte Movies — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:14:20 +0000

1h 22min. // In this sequel of Father of the Bride (1950), newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are going to have a baby, leaving her father having to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.

Directed by: Vicente Minnelli

Writing Credits: Albert Hackett (screenplay), Frances Goodrich (screenplay)

Starring: Spencer Tracy (as Stanley Banks), Joan Bennett (as Ellie Banks) and Elizabeth Taylor (as Kay Dunstan)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Directors Guild of America, USA 1951. Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. Vicente Minnelli.

NOMINATED. Writers Guild of America, USA 1952. Best Written American Comedy. Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich.

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Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (1956)

Charlotte Movies — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:14:16 +0000

1h. 23min. // Extraterrestrials traveling in high-tech flying saucers contact a scientist as part of a plan to enslave the inhabitants of Earth.

Directed by: Fred F. Sears

Writing Credits: Bernard Gordon (screenplay), George Worthing Yates (screenplay)

Starring: Hugh Marlowe (as Dr. Russell A. Marvin), Joan Taylor (as Carol Marvin) and Donald Curtis (as Maj. Huglin).

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Awards:

WON. Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA 1957. Best Sound Editing – Feature Film.

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Night Of The Living Dead (1968)

Charlotte Movies — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:14:02 +0000

1h 36min. // There is panic throughout the nation as the dead suddenly come back to life. The film follows a group of characters who barricade themselves in an old farmhouse in an attempt to remain safe from these bloodthirsty, flesh-eating monsters.

Directed by: George A. Romero

Writing Credits: John A. Russo (screenplay) and George A. Romero (screenplay)

Starring: Duane Jones (as Ben), Judith O’Dea (as Barbra) and Karl Hardman (as Harry Cooper)

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Awards:

WON. Horror Host Hall Of Fame 2011. Behind The Screams. George A. Romero

WON. National Film Preservation Board, USA 1999. National Film Registry. George A. Romero

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Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)

Charlotte Movies — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:20:51 +0000

1h 14min. // A family of three drives through the desolate Texas backroads at dusk, their vacation road trip slowly dissolving into unease as the landscape stretches on without end. When they finally admit they are lost, an isolated lodge appears out of the darkness, presided over by a strange, twitchy caretaker named Torgo, who insists he “takes care of the place while the Master is away.” The father, desperate for shelter, ignores his misgivings and moves his wife and young daughter into the eerie house, where a looming painting of a robed figure and his pack of dogs seems to watch their every move.

As night deepens, the family realizes they are not guests but captives in a place devoted to a sinister pagan cult. Outside, in a stone courtyard, a circle of slumbering women in diaphanous gowns lies at the feet of the Master, a stern, mustached figure who awakens to pass judgment on the intruders. The wife’s pleas, the father’s attempts at escape, and the child’s confusion all play out against a backdrop of chanting, ritual, and surreal ceremony, where logic gives way to dreamlike dread.

The lodge becomes a trap of shifting allegiances and escalating menace, as Torgo’s divided loyalties and the Master’s iron will clash over the fate of the newcomers. Each attempt to flee only draws the family deeper into the cult’s orbit, blurring the line between victim and initiate. By the time dawn threatens the horizon, the desert has closed in, the police are oblivious, and the Master’s rule over his domain—and over those who stumble into it—feels grimly, inescapably complete.

Directed by: Harold P. Warren

Writing Credits: Harold P. Warren

Starring: Harold P. Warren, John Reynolds, Diane Mahree

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The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

Charlotte Movies — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:54:56 +0000

1h 59min. // Fresh out of prison and clutching a set of drummer’s sticks like a lifeline, a recovering addict returns to his Chicago neighborhood determined to trade card-dealing and narcotics for a clean shot at a music career. The streets he left behind haven’t changed, though, and neither have the people who once profited from his weakness. His fragile optimism collides with the smoky back rooms of the local gambling joints, where old debts and old habits lurk in every shadow.

At home, he’s tethered to a domineering, manipulative wife who claims to be physically disabled and uses guilt as her sharpest weapon. She clings to the security his crooked dealing once provided, sabotaging his plans for an honest life. Across the alley stands a gentler possibility: a sympathetic bar hostess who believes in his talent and offers the kind of support he’s never known. Between them, he’s pulled in opposite directions, torn between duty, desire, and the hope of redemption.

As the pressure mounts—money running short, the lure of the card table growing stronger, and the old pusher circling like a vulture—his resolve begins to crack. Each setback nudges him closer to the needle he’s sworn to avoid, and the city’s neon nights become a gauntlet of temptation. When a desperate crime entangles him in a murder investigation, he’s forced into a brutal reckoning with his addiction, his loyalties, and the brutal machinery of the underworld that refuses to let him go.

The story builds to a harrowing portrait of withdrawal and moral crisis, shot through with the jagged rhythms of jazz and the stark contrasts of film noir lighting. In the end, the question is not only whether he can stay clean, but whether a man so deeply enmeshed in vice and dependency can ever truly escape the past that defines him.

Directed by: Otto Preminger

Writing Credits: Walter Newman, Ben Hecht, Lewis Meltzer

Starring: Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker, Robert Strauss, Snub Pollard

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The Front Page (1931)

Charlotte Movies — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:48:55 +0000

1h 41min. // Inside the smoky press room of a Chicago criminal court, a pack of hard-bitten newspaper men waits like vultures for the next big story. At the center of the chaos is star reporter Hildy Johnson, who has one foot out the door: he’s engaged, bags are packed, and a respectable life away from the racket of the newsroom is calling. His editor, the wily and manipulative Walter Burns, has other plans. With a condemned man’s execution looming at dawn, Walter is determined to keep his best reporter on the story—and on the payroll—no matter what it takes.

As politicians scheme to turn the hanging into a campaign stunt and reformers clamor for justice, the supposedly open-and-shut case takes a wild turn when the condemned man escapes. In a flurry of overlapping dialogue and rapid-fire wisecracks, Hildy finds himself hiding a fugitive, dodging the police, and juggling his fiancée’s mounting exasperation. The press room becomes a battlefield of typewriters, telephones, and egos as everyone scrambles to control the narrative.

The more outrageous the situation becomes, the more Hildy is drawn back into the intoxicating chaos of the news game. Torn between domestic bliss and the thrill of the scoop, he’s forced to confront what he really wants: a quiet life, or the relentless, exhilarating pressure of chasing headlines. The result is a blisteringly fast, darkly funny portrait of tabloid-era journalism, where truth is negotiable, ethics are flexible, and nothing stands in the way of a front-page story.

For classic film fans, it’s a pre-Code whirlwind of cynicism and charm, packed with overlapping dialogue, razor-sharp insults, and a newsroom full of character actors turning every scene into a verbal brawl. Beneath the laughs, it offers a surprisingly biting look at politics, the death penalty, and the uneasy marriage between the press and power.

Directed by: Lewis Milestone, Nate Watt

Writing Credits: Charles Lederer

Starring: Clark Gable, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Frank McHugh, Lewis Milestone, Matt Moore

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Awards:

WON. National Board of Review: Top Ten Films. Category. The Front Page.
NOMINATED. Academy Awards (4th). Best Picture; Best Director (Lewis Milestone); Best Actor (Adolphe Menjou).

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The Divorcee (1930)

Charlotte Movies — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:35:35 +0000

1h 50min. // Ted, Jerry, Paul, and Dorothy whirl through Manhattan’s bright lights and smoky parties, the very picture of the smart set at the dawn of the 1930s. Jerry’s choice to marry the charming but complacent Ted shatters Paul, whose long-simmering love for her has always remained just below the surface. In a haze of heartbreak and liquor, Paul gets behind the wheel and crashes, leaving the gentle Dorothy permanently disfigured and the group’s carefree camaraderie in ruins.

As guilt, resentment, and desire tighten their grip, Jerry discovers that Ted’s notion of marital fidelity is strictly one-sided. When she dares to claim the same freedom he’s taken for granted, their marriage erupts into a battle over double standards and what a “modern” wife is allowed to feel and do. The film traces Jerry’s defiant journey through scandal, separation, and self-discovery, as she tests the boundaries of love and respectability in a society eager to punish a woman for breaking the rules men wrote for themselves.

Amid glittering dinner parties and shadowy hotel rooms, the friends’ intertwined romances curdle into painful reckonings. Paul’s lingering devotion, Dorothy’s quiet suffering, and Ted’s wounded pride all circle around Jerry’s refusal to be the wronged, docile wife. The story becomes a sharp pre-Code exploration of passion, hypocrisy, and the price a woman pays for insisting that her heart—and her mistakes—count just as much as any man’s.

Directed by: Robert Z. Leonard

Writing Credits: John Meehan, Nick Grinde, Zelda Sears

Starring: Norma Shearer, George Irving, Robert Montgomery, Florence Eldridge, Chester Morris

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Awards:

WON. Academy Award for Best Actress 1931. Best Actress in a Leading Role. Norma Shearer.