MovieTime at the Tivoli presents A John Huston Double Feature

Frederick, MD --- MovieTime at the Tivoli will be presenting a John Huston Double Feature on Friday, January 19, 2007 beginning with the classic film “The Man Who Would Be King” at 7:00 PM, and following with “Treasure of the Sierra Madre” at 9:00 PM. Huston began his film career as a screenwriter in the early 1930’s and made films mainly adapted from books or plays. The six-foot-two-inch, brown-eyed director also acted in a number of films, with distinction in Otto Preminger’s The Cardinal for which he was nominated for the Academy award for Best Supporting Actor and in Roman Polanski's “Chinatown” as the film's central heavy against Jack Nicholson. Huston's films are timely and insightful about human nature and human predicaments. They also sometimes included scenes or brief dialogue passages that were remarkably prescient concerning environmental issues that came to public awareness in the future, in the period starting about 1970; examples include The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Night of the Iguana(1964). Huston also directed The Misfits(film) with an all-star cast including Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, and Eli Wallach. Huston won 2 Academy awards for Treasure of Sierra Madre, Directing and Writing (Screenplay) and his father John, won for Best Supporting Actor.

“The Man Who Would Be King” stars Sean Connery, Michael Caine, and Christopher Plummer. The film is an adaptation of the famous short story by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnahan, two ex-soldiers in India when it was under British rule. They decide that the country is too small for them, so they head off to Kafiristan in order to become Kings in their own right. Kipling is seen as a character that was there at the beginning, and at the end of this glorious tale.

“Treasure of the Sierra Madre”. is a black-and-white 1948 John Huston film in which two American down-and-outers (Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt) in 1920s Mexico hook up with an old-timer (Walter Huston the director's father) to prospect for gold. The old-timer accurately predicts trouble but is willing to go anyway. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was one of the first Hollywood films to be shot almost entirely on location outside the U.S. (in Tampico, Mexico), although the night scenes were filmed back in the studio.

To purchase tickets, call the Weinberg Center for the Arts at 301-228-2828, 301-228-2838 TTY or stop by the Box Office Tuesday thru Friday 10:00am to 4:00pm and Saturday 10:00am to 2:00pm. Tickets are available online at www.weinbergcenter.org.

The Weinberg Center for the Arts, a municipal facility of the City of Frederick, is located at 20 West Patrick Street in downtown Frederick, Maryland. The historic theatre opened in 1926 as the Tivoli, and it and was donated to the City of Frederick in 1978. Today as one of the region’s premier presenting facilities, the 1,100 seat Weinberg Center offers professional LIVE! Series, including dance, music, theatre, family performances and films, weekday performances for students, and classic movies. Performance space and professional services are available to a variety of community arts

groups, civic and business organizations, and other arts promoters. Programming at the Weinberg Center for the Arts is made possible with support from the City of Frederick, Frederick County Government, Maryland State Arts Council, Frederick Arts Council, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, The Frederick News-Post, State Farm Insurance, The

Tivoli Society, other corporate and individual donors.. For more information about upcoming events at the Weinberg Center, please call the Box Office at 301-228-2828 or visit www.weinbergcenter.org.