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That's when Charles Boyer tore up the box office as the glamorous outlaw of Algiers' Casbah, Pepe le Moko, in "Algiers" - just a year after Jean Gabin originated the role in "Pepe le Moko." And American movies have taken foreign screenplays and transposed them to native locations at least since Henry Fonda , in 1947, took on another Jean Gabin role ...

THOMASTON : The Friends of the Thomaston Public Library is presenting a series of films in Room 208 of the Academy Building, 60 Main St./Route 1. The Friday night movies for October have the theme of Thrills and Chills, and the first film of the series will be "Gaslight" Friday, Oct.

The comedy ''Tovarich'' is nearly forgotten today, despite being turned into a 1937 film starring Charles Boyer and Claudette Colbert , and a 1963 Broadway musical with Vivien Leigh .

"Gaslight," a Victorian thriller by Patrick Hamilton, opens Friday at 8 p.m. at the Sherman Playhouse, located at the junction of routes 37 and 39 behind the Sherman Firehouse, which is under renovation.

WARREN CLEMENTS w clements@globeandmail.com Screwball comedy was the ultimate escapist genre of the Great Depression.

The details: Throughout the 1930s and into the 1940s, Columbia Pictures was engaged in a fairly consistent program of upgrading its product.

Published: Thursday, July 9, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, July 9, 2009 at 12:37 a.m. Will Michael Bay, at long last, win an Oscar? At least a few Hollywood-watchers must be thinking that.