INDIANAPOLIS Film historian Eric Grayson screens a Hoosier cowboy film on Sat. May 14 at 8 p.m. with Flaming Lead, featuring Vevay native Ken Maynard and Dave O’Brien.
In the 1939 film, cowhand Ken Clark is stranded in Chicago, and temporarily takes a job as a sharp-shooter entertainer in a night club, with the intention of getting enough money together to get back to his beloved Arizona. Ken helps drunken Frank Gordon (O’Brien) regain control of a ranch being slowly bankrupted by rustlers. Can Ken find the rustlers? Can Frank sober up enough to notify the police?
Taking a break from a Hoosier-themed series of films during Indiana’s Bicentennial year, visitors to Garfield’s Vintage Movie Nights in June, July, and August will view three rarely seen German silent films from the golden age of Expressionist Cinema, with a live score.
At each screening, Grayson will introduce the film and handle a Q&A afterwards. He will also, as always, show a short or cartoon before the main feature.
Admission is $5; concessions, $1. For more information, visit www.gpacarts.org or call 317-327-7135. For more information on Grayson, visit www.drfilm.net/blog.
