Night Beat (Huth, 1947): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 6.15pm
This is a 'Projecting the Archive' 35mm screening which will include an introduction by Josephine Botting, BFI Curator.
BFI introdcution:
Back on civvy street, a pair of demobbed soldiers decide on a career in the police force. But the austerity of post-war Britain makes it hard to resist the illicit ‘perks’ of the job and when one falls for a scheming nightclub singer, he’s drawn deeper into criminality. Christine Norden, in her film debut, is perfectly cast as the temptress and this screening celebrates the centenary of her birth on 28 December 1924. Though her film career was brief, she had an electric screen presence and could have been a leading British femme fatale if her potential had been realised.
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