Movie Matinee at the Library
Join us for movie night at the Library! We will be screening Storm Center (1956).
Synopsis: Widowed librarian Alicia Hull (Bette Davis) becomes the center of a McCarthyist firestorm when she refuses to remove from her library "The Communist Dream," a book seen by her town council as incendiary anti-American propaganda. Condemned at a town meeting by her former assistant Martha Lockridge (Kim Hunter) and Martha's opportunist attorney boyfriend, Paul Duncan (Brian Keith), the principled Alicia chooses the moral high ground even as she must endure the town's oppressive rancor.
Cast: Bette Davis, Brian Keith, Paul Kelly, Kim Hunter, Kevin Coughlin
Director: Daniel Taradash
Rating: NR
Production Year: 1956
Runtime: 85 mins
Studio: Columbia Pictures Industries Inc.
Closed captions will be provided on screen.
Children 9 years old and younger must be accompanied and supervised by their caregiver at all times.
- Accessibility:
- The location of this event is wheelchair accessible. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to persons with disabilities requiring assistance. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact Newton’s ADA/Sec.504 Coordinator, Jini Fairley, two weeks in advance of this event: jfairley@newtonma.gov or (617) 796-1253. For Telecommunications Relay Service, please dial 711.