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The Screening Room series continues at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25, with a special “Farewell to Harry Carey Jr. (1921-2012)” screening of Lindsay Anderson’s moving drama The Whales of August (1987), in which the classic character actor and John Ford Stock Co. player (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Wagon Master, The Searchers, Gremlins, Tombstone
FLORENCE-The free film series The Screening Room: Classics, Crowd-Pleasers, Cult Favorites and Neglected Gems returns at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22 – the 93rd anniversary of Ray Bradbury’s birth – for a free 60th-anniversary screening of The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) at the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library, 350 N. Wood Ave., Florence, Alabama.
The special showing salutes the memory of author and Pillar of Fire co-founder Bradbury (1920-
2012) – whose short story “The Foghorn” loosely inspired the science-fiction movie thriller – and his lifelong friend Ray Harryhausen (1920-2013), who created the film’s trailblazing stop-motion special effects.
2012) – whose short story “The Foghorn” loosely inspired the science-fiction movie thriller – and his lifelong friend Ray Harryhausen (1920-2013), who created the film’s trailblazing stop-motion special effects.Directed by Eugene Lourie, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms begins with an atomic test in the Arctic which awakens a ferocious dinosaur, a prehistoric beast that terrorizes the North Atlantic before attacking New York City. The cast includes Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Lee Van Cleef, Jack Pennick, James Best and Robert Easton.
The Screening Room series continues at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25, with a special “Farewell to Harry Carey Jr. (1921-2012)” screening of Lindsay Anderson’s moving drama The Whales of August (1987), in which the classic character actor and John Ford Stock Co. player (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Wagon Master, The Searchers, Gremlins, TombstoneAdmission is free to all Screening Room events. For details, call the library at 256-764-6564 or 267-366-4512.
“The world’s been here for millions of years. Man’s been walking upright for a comparatively short time. Mentally we’re still crawling.” – Professor Tom Nesbitt (Paul Christian) in Eugene Lourie’s The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
