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Film: “Fifty Candles”

Saturday, September 23, 2017 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

(Hodkinson Pictures, 1921) Irvin V. Willat directed this impressively somber melodrama based on a novel by Earl Derr Biggers, who also penned the Charlie Chan detective series. A Chinese man, (Hung Chin Chung) in Hawaii escapes deportation and certain death by becoming the virtual slave of rich scoundrel Henry Drew. Years later, a number of people on board a ship sailing to San Francisco with the Drew family and Chung wish Drew dead, and one of them succeeds. This strikingly photographed and rarely seen mystery stars Bertram Grassby, William Carrol, Edward Burns and Marjorie Daw. Jon Marsalis will provide live musical accompaniment. The film was added to the National Film Registry in 2011. Free, at the Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater located at 19053 Mt. Pony Rd. in Culpeper, VA. No reservations required. For more information, call 202-707-9994. Begins at 7:30 p.m.

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Date:
Saturday, September 23, 2017
Time:
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater
19053 Mt. Pony Rd.
Culpeper, VA 22701 United States
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Phone:
202-707-9994