Laura News

Tonight's Saturday Night Cinema feature is "Where the Sidewalk Ends." Another film noir jewel unearthed.

It's an indelible sequence from the film that became her best-known: A sultry Rita Hayworth, resplendent in all black, serenades a crowd in a nightclub before starting an impromptu striptease - only to be hustled offstage and into the arms of her angry husband, played by Glenn Ford.

With construction set to begin on the Cleburne County Emergency Medical Service headquarters building in Heflin, the Cleburne County Hospital Board increased the project budget by $15,000 Thursday.

LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN . Gene Tierney, so innocent in the previous year's noir masterpiece Laura , does an about-face in director John M. Stahl's lurid yet luxurious adaptation of Ben Ames Williams' bestselling novel.

Cinema 21's excellent noir series Return to Noir Ville is back for another year, and today's films are some great ones: the Coen brothers' Texas noir Blood Simple, 1944's Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews flick Laura, and Fritz Lang's 1953 classic The Big Heat.