Sunday | November 1 3:00 pm

They Made Me a Fugitive
(aka I Became a Criminal)

Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti.
With Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Griffith Jones.
UK, 1947, DCP, black & white, 100 min.

This exquisite British noir follows Trevor Howard’s ex-RAF pilot who, due to unemployment, gets caught up in postwar black market operations and is framed for the killing of a policeman. It is “filled with malign eccentricity” (David Thomson) by Brazilian director Alberto Cavalcanti.

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