Special Features: Introduction by Foster Hirsch. FREE screening co-presented with the National Gallery of Art; limit 2 tickets per person.

70th Anniversary

T-men investigating a flood of phony $20 bills spring convicted counterfeiter Tris Stewart (Lloyd Bridges) from the joint to use him as an undercover operative. But Tris is only stringing the Feds along until he makes a score and scoots to Mexico with his red-hot squeeze, Meg (Barbara Payton). The double- and triple-crosses come fast and furious, as no one's sure who's a crook and who's a copper. This hasty and hard-edged B-movie from director Richard Fleischer features exceptional camerawork by cinematographer Guy Roe. (Note courtesy of Noir City.) DIR Richard Fleischer; SCR Earl Felton, George Zuckerman; PROD Bryan Foy. U.S., 1949, b&w, 78 min. NOT RATED

Newly restored 35mm print courtesy of the Film Noir Foundation and UCLA Film & Television Archive.