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Elliot Wilhelm
WTVS Detroit Public TV's Friday Night Chase Film Festival is your destination for uncut, uninterrupted classic films. Each Friday at 9 p.m., host Elliot Wilhelm, film curator for the Detroit Institute of Arts and founder of the Detroit Film Theatre, introduces the film and offers his insight and commentary.
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Key LargoKey Largo
Friday, 6/19 from 9:00-11:00 p.m.
A man visits his old friend's hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.
SuspicionSuspicion
Friday, 6/26 from 9:00-11:00 p.m.
A shy young English woman marries a charming gentleman, then begins to suspect him of trying to kill her.
Fiddler on the RoofFiddler on the Roof
Friday, 7/3 from 9:00-12:00 p.m.
In pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish peasant must contend with marrying off his three daughters while antisemitic sentiment threatens his home.
LolitaLolita
Friday, 7/10 from 9:00-11:00 p.m.
Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial LOLITA is a wicked satire of sexual obsession, sadomasochism, and fetishism.
GigotGigot
Friday, 7/17 from 9:00-11:00 p.m.
A poignant comedy about a mute who befriends Nicole, the little daughter of a prostitute. Gleason shows his considerable talents as an actor without uttering a sound as he plays the bumbling, kind-hearted janitor, Gigot.
How I Won the WarHow I Won the War
Friday, 7/24 from 9:00-11:00 p.m.
An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
Waking Ned DevineWaking Ned Devine
Friday, 7/31 from 9:00-11:00 p.m.
A comedy about the inhabitants of Tulley More, a small Irish town with a population of fifty-two and dwindling.
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