Winter/Spring 2024 Season

Wednesday 21st February – DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) PG

Celebrating the 80th birthday of this classic noir. Insurance salesman Walter Neff
embarks on an affair with Phyllis Dietrichson, the seductive wife of one of his
clients. Phyllis plans to murder her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident
insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme to receive twice the amount based
on a double indemnity clause. When Mr Dietrichson is found dead on a train track,
the police accept that it’s an accidental death. But Walter’s best friend and
colleague Barton Keyes is not convinced…

Wednesday 20th March – THE GREAT ESCAPER (2023) 12A

In 2014, near-nonagenarian Bernie Jordan (Michael Caine) is sad to miss out on an
official group outing to the D-Day anniversary in France. Encouraged by wife Rene
(Glenda Jackson), he sneaks out from his care home and goes on one last big adventure
to cross the Channel, while reminiscing about his wartime experiences.

Wednesday 17th April – AND THEN COME THE NIGHTJARS (2023) 12A

Adapted for the screen from Bea Roberts’ multi-award-winning stage play, And Then
Come the Nightjars is a heart-warming story of friendship and survival set against the
backdrop of the 2001 Foot and Mouth outbreak. An unlikely friendship develops
between a Devon farmer and the vet who is assigned to cull his precious herd.