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FLORENCE-The free film series The Screening Room: Classics, Crowd-Pleasers, Cult Favorites and Neglected 
Gems resumes with a special 20th-anniversary showing of the rousing, action-packed period Western Tombstone (1993) at 7:
The cast includes Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Harry Carey Jr., Michael Biehn, Powers Boothe, Michael Rooker, Stephen Lang, Thomas Haden Church, Billy Bob Thornton and Charlton Heston, with narration by Robert Mitchum.
Harry Carey Jr. in TOMBSTONE
The screening is part of the memorial miniseries “Farewell to Harry Carey Jr. (1921-2012),” honoring the longtime Western character actor, John Ford Stock Co. member and son of silent-screen cowboy Harry Carey.
The November schedule continues with a 40th-anniversary showing of Richard Fleischer’s classic science-fiction thriller Soylent Green (1973), starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor Young, Edward G. Robinson, Chuck Connors and Joseph Cotten, at 7 p.m. Thursday, November 21, and a 20th-anniversary salute to Joe Dante’s Matinee (1993), starring John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Robert Picardo, John Sayles, Dick Miller and Kevin McCarthy, at 2 p.m. Sunday, November 24.
The series is hosted by film historian Terry Pace, who teaches English at the University of North Alabama. Admission is free. For details, call Pillar of Fire at 256-366-4512 or the library at 256-764-6564.
“All right, Clanton! You called down the thunder! Well, now, you’ve got it – you see that?” – Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) in George P. Cosmatos’ Tombstone (1993)
