Noir City: Unfaithfully Yours
February 11, 2023
The mordantly hilarious tale of a jealous orchestra conductor envisioning three distinct plots to murder his supposedly unfaithful wife.
Individual Tickets: $15 | $10 SIFF members
Passes (valid for all Noir City screenings): $150 | $100 SIFF members
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Saturday, February 11, 2023
As film noir swept over late '40s Hollywood, Preston Sturges created the first full-length parody of the genre with this mordantly hilarious tale of a jealous orchestra conductor (Rex Harrison) envisioning three distinct plots to murder his supposedly unfaithful wife (Linda Darnell). Turning The Postman Always Rings Twice into uproarious comedy takes only a few tweaks and twists for this genuinely brilliant auteur. Side-splitting farce is made even funnier by Harrison's demonically deadpan portrayal of the megalomaniacal would-be murderer.
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- Director: Preston Sturges
- Principal Cast: Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallée, Barbara Lawrence
- Country: USA
- Year: 1948
- Running Time: 105 min.
- Producer: Preston Sturges
- Screenplay: Preston Sturges
- Cinematographers: Victor Milner
- Editors: Robert Fritch
- Music: Alfred Newman
- Filmography: Sullivan’s Travels (1941), The Great McGinty (1940), Hail the Conquering Hero (1944), The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
- Language: English
- US Distributor: 20th Century Fox, Disney