Bon Voyage & Aventure Malgache: Alfred Hitchcock's Wartime Shorts
Alfred Hitchcock directed these two short, absorbing dramas of wartime espionage and murder (both showing on 35mm!) in 1944 to aid the war effort, but when government officials saw his work, they labeled them "inflammatory" and shelved them from release.
Bon Voyage sees a Scottish RAF gunner, escaped from a German prison camp, being interrogated by a French intelligence officer. As the gunner explains how he was helped and guided by a Polish escapee, Hitchcock brings the audience to their journey through wartorn France, passed off hand-to-hand by ambivalent strangers through a series of sinister rendezvous. (35mm print, 26 min.)
Meanwhile, Aventure Malgache is told from the perspective of an actor, tantalizing his cast mates backstage with a story from another continent. As the camera once more changes perspectives, Hitchcock immerses the audience among the French underground resistance fighting for Madagascar, threatened by the loose-lipped girlfriend of the movement's undaunted leader. (35mm print, 30 min.)
Program will be preceded by Looney Tunes: The Last Hungry Cat
In Hitchcock form, this cartoon follows Sylvester after he thinks he has killed Tweety. (DCP, 7 min.)
Alfred Hitchcock directed these two short, absorbing dramas of wartime espionage and murder (both showing on 35mm!) in 1944 to aid the war effort, but when government officials saw his work, they labeled them "inflammatory" and shelved them from release.
Bon Voyage sees a Scottish RAF gunner, escaped from a German prison camp, being interrogated by a French intelligence officer. As the gunner explains how he was helped and guided by a Polish escapee, Hitchcock brings the audience to their journey through wartorn France, passed off hand-to-hand by ambivalent strangers through a series of sinister rendezvous. (35mm print, 26 min.)
Meanwhile, Aventure Malgache is told from the perspective of an actor, tantalizing his cast mates backstage with a story from another continent. As the camera once more changes perspectives, Hitchcock immerses the audience among the French underground resistance fighting for Madagascar, threatened by the loose-lipped girlfriend of the movement's undaunted leader. (35mm print, 30 min.)
Program will be preceded by Looney Tunes: The Last Hungry Cat
In Hitchcock form, this cartoon follows Sylvester after he thinks he has killed Tweety. (DCP, 7 min.)
