Jewish Community Center of Washington, DC

THE LINEUP

Date:
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Time:
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location:
Washington DCJCC
1529 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036

The Lineup
THE LINEUP
Dir. Don Siegel (86 min, USA, 1958)
Narrative 

In this classic film noir directed by the legendary Don Seigel, Eli Wallach shines as psychopathic gangster in San Francisco who uses unsuspecting travelers to traffic heroin. When one of the deliveries goes awry, a cop gets killed, throwing the police into action. 

In his autobiography, The Good, the Bad and Me, Wallach recalled, "I first met Siegel at the plush Columbia Pictures office in New York, where he told me he wanted me to play a sadistic professional killer...’ ‘The guy has to kill five people in one day,’ I said. ‘That's not for me; I'm not that sadistic.’ ‘Oh, it's only a movie,’ he said. ‘Besides, you'll enjoy San Francisco.’ ‘All right,’ I said, and then added as a joke, ‘But I want ten grand a killing.’

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