Film Noir Classics
CRIME WAVE
Monday, January 27th at 7:30 PM
Hosted by professor Foster Hirsch
$18 Public | $12 Members
Sterling Hayden stars as lieutenant
Sims, a cynical and brutal police sergeant who leans hard on a newly released ex-con
(Gene Nelson) who he suspects of covering for a dangerous group of escapees
from San Quentin. Unbeknownst to Sims, the crooks holed up in the apartment of
the parolee and his young wife who they hold hostage and force to join in a heist.
Famed for Bert Glennon’s nighttime location photography throughout Los Angeles, André de Toth’s Crime
Wave is one of the most thrilling B noirs of the 1950s. (1953, 73 mins)