Instructor: Jennifer Garlen

Fight the Nazis abroad and at home with four films that span the World War II era. The series opens with the iconic classic, Casablanca (1942), starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and a cast filled with favorite stars. In the fast-paced action picture, Desperate Journey (1942), Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan lead a group of downed RAF airmen trying to escape Nazi Germany. Alfred Hitchcock directs the tense and provocative 1944 thriller, Lifeboat, starring Huntsville native Tallulah Bankhead as one of the survivors of a U-boat attack. Finally, Orson Welles directs and stars in The Stranger (1946), with Edward G. Robinson as a war crimes investigator on the trail of a Nazi fugitive. Each screening will open with an introduction and conclude with audience discussion.