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Event Date as Display String:

Saturday, October 12, 2019, 3:00pm - 5:10pm

Location:

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/heaven-with-a-barbed-wire-fence-persons-in-hiding-2019-10

Event Description:

Marking the screen debuts of both Glenn Ford and Richard Conte (here
Nicolas Conte), "Heaven With a Barbed Wire Fence" was one of seven
films helmed for 20th Century Fox by actor-turned-director Ricardo
Cortez, brother of cinematographer Stanley Cortez. A gently rambling
road movie, "Heaven With a Barbed Wire Fence" follows an optimistic
dreamer who quits his department store job to travel impatiently West,
by thumb and by rail, to Arizona, where a plot of land he purchased by
mail waits to be transformed into a farm. Along the way he befriends
Conte's garrulous drifter and, more unexpectedly, a Spanish Civil War
exile played by serial-starlet Jean Rogers, with beloved
handlebar-moustached character actor Raymond Walburn tagging along as
an absentminded professor lending a comic accent to the spontaneous
group dialogue. Much of the pleasure of the film lies, in fact, in
those scenes of the unlikely group bonding in freight cars and beside
hobo campfires, sharing their dreams and musings on life on the road.
But darker forces also gather around the edges of the film, with
specters of Dust Bowl poverty and cruel accidents threatening to
shatter the travelers' hopes for greener, more bucolic pastures.

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Event Start Date as Date Type:

Saturday, October 12, 2019 - 15:00 to 17:10

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