Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

200 SE 4th Street, Abilene, KS 7410-2900

http://eisenhower.archives.gov

 

NEWS RELEASE                                                                                                   Colleen Cearley

                                                                                                                                                      (785) 263-6700

                                                                                                                                                 February 23, 2004

 

 

The Paul H. Royer Film Series

 

All films begin at 7:00 p.m. in the Visitor Center auditorium

 

The annual Paul H. Royer Film Series is presented annually on the first three Thursdays of March.  This year’s selections consist of three American films that either received or were nominated for Academy Awards fifty years ago.  The decade of the 1950s will be remembered for post-war affluence; the baby boom; television; new leisure time activities; civil rights; along with conformity.  It was also a time when some of America’s youth became rebels, opposing middle-aged cinema.  This year’s selections are:

 

 

March 4, 2004               ON THE WATERFRONT

 

Starring Marlon Brando, Lee J. Cobb, and Eva Marie Saint, 1954, black and white, 108 minutes.  This 1954 film won an Academy Award for Best Film, as well as Marlon Brando as Best Actor.  Ex-fighter Terry Malloy (Brando) could have been a contender, but now toils for boss John Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) on the gang-ridden waterfront.  Terry is guilt-stricken, however, when he lures a rebellious worker to his death.  It takes the love of Edie Doyle (Eva Marie Saint, winner of the 1954 Academy Award for Best Actress) to show Terry how low he has fallen.  Directed by Elia Kazan, this movie is one of the most acclaimed of all films.

 

March 11, 2004             SABRINA

 

Starring Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, and William Holden, 1954, black and white, 112 minutes.  Billy Wilder directs this 1954 film starring some of Hollywood’s greatest stars.  Humphrey Bogart and William Holden are the wealthy Larrabee brothers of Long Island, but when Sabrina, daughter of the family’s chauffeur returns from Paris grown up and beautiful, the stage is set for some family fireworks as the brothers fall under the spell of Hepburn’s delightful charms.  She was nominated for Best Actress.

 

March 18 2004              BROKEN LANCE

 

Starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Richard Widmark, and Katy Jurardo, 1954, color, 96 minutes.  Katy Jurado received a 1954 Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress in this memorable western.  The domineering cattle baron Mat Devereaux (Tracy) rules his vast empire with a ruthless hand.  His greatest love is for his Indian wife and their son, Joe (Robert Wagner), but his three sons from a previous marriage deeply resent them.  Joe agrees to go to jail for a crime his father commits and returns three years later to a different world.

 

 

 

ALL MOVIES ARE FREE           SODA AND POPCORN SERVED          

Please RSVP by calling: The Eisenhower Center at (785) 263-6700 or 1-877-RING IKE