Film Noir at CBPL, June 14

The FILM NOIR series at Coos Bay Public Library continues on Sunday, June 16th at 4:00.  This month’s feature is Anatole Litvak’s 1948 film adaptation of Lucille Fletcher’ radio play “SORRY WRONG NUMBER”. Barbara Stanwyck stars as Leona Stevenson, the rich heiress to a drug store empire. Alone and bedridden in her Manhattan townhouse, Leona is getting impatient waiting for her husband Henry (Burt Lancaster) to come home from work. After repeated attempts to contact his office go nowhere, Leona finally has the operator dial for her. When she is cut into another phone call due to crossed wires, Leona overhears plans for a murder to be carried out at 11:15 that night. With the police proving no help at all and Leona unable to leave her bed, the wealthy invalid proceeds to do everything she can to stop the murder from taking place with only a telephone as her aid. The Film Noir series is held on the third Sunday of the month. Everyone is welcome at this free program sponsored by The Friends of Coos Bay Public Library.  The Library is located at 525 Anderson Avenue.  Please call 269-1101 or visit coosbaylibrary.org for further information about this program.