Odds Against Tomorrow

Harry Belafonte stars in this stylish noir that finds him squaring off against Robert Ryan, a tightly wound racist with a sadistic streak and dark past. The pair are thrown together by Ed Begley to commit a bank heist upstate to repay their respective debts. With memorable supporting performances by Shelley Winters, Gloria Grahame, and Kim Hamilton; stunning high-contrast widescreen cinematography; a potent score by jazz pianist John Lewis; and a hard-bit tone of desperation, Robert Wise’s film was so beloved by French crime auteur Jean-Pierre Melville that it’s said he watched it between 80 and 120 times.

The World, the Flesh and the Devil

Belafonte is one of the last survivors of a nuclear disaster wandering an eerily vacant Manhattan. When he finds fellow survivors, both white—played by Inger Stevens and Mel Ferrer, respectively—tensions surface. Loosely based on the 1901 novel The Purple Cloud, the film’s haunting premise is not so much the devastation and destruction of war but the racial and gender mores that somehow persist even as the world is ending. Rendered in striking black-and-white CinemaScope, The World, The Flesh and the Devil is an underappreciated cult classic. The film is also the first made in partnership with Belafonte’s own HARBEL productions.

Make It Dinner and a Movie

Fanny's Restaurant & Café

All guests who present a ticket for a film screening, Tuesday through Saturday (and the first Sunday of every month), receive 10% off all food and non-alcoholic beverages at Fanny's. Discount only applicable on the same day as the screening and cannot be redeemed for another screening or date. Dinner reservations can be made on OpenTable or Resy.