The Glass Web
The 3-D Film Archive’s Robert Furmanek returns to introduce the thriller The Glass Web, a film noir classic from the director of Creature from the Black Lagoon!
Film/Theater
In The Glass Web (Jack Arnold, 1953), a manipulative actress (Kathleen Hughes) is having an affair with both the married writer (John Forsythe) of a television show that recreates real crimes and the show’s researcher (Edward G. Robinson). When she shows up dead, the researcher proposes they base the next episode on her murder. But who killed her?
The film is one of the great 3D thrillers of the 1950s directed by Jack Arnold (Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Incredible Shrinking Man). Robert Furmanek introduces the screening and discusses the 3-D Film Archive’s recent restoration work on the picture. (81 mins., 3D DCP)
Screened in conjunction with the Columbus Moving Picture Show, an annual gathering of cinephiles that takes place May 22–25 at the Crowne Plaza North. For more information, please visit their website.