The San Francisco Public Library is hosting their 2013 Summer Film Festival by showing 20 movies in 20 branches this summer, and all movies were filmed or set in San Francisco! Its a fun list, and I'm excited to finally see Fog Over Frisco, which isn't available on DVD and hard to find (Amazon sometimes has it available under the "burn on demand" DVD-R service, but that can be iffy.)Fog Over Frisco, 1934, stars Bette Davis and has been lauded as a San Francsico thriller and often seen as a precursor to the Hitchock style.
From Wikipedia:
Arlene Bradford (Bette Davis) is a spoiled, bored, wealthy socialite who finances her extravagant lifestyle by exploiting her fiancé Spencer Carlton's (Lyle Talbot) access to her stepfather's brokerage firm and using her connection to steal security bonds for crime boss Jake Bello (Irving Pichel).
When Arlene disappears, her sister Val (Margaret Lindsay) steps in to discover what happened to her with the help of society reporter Tony Sterling (Donald Woods) andphotojournalist Izzy Wright (Hugh Herbert).
Bette Davis, anxious to portray the slatternly waitress Mildred in the RKO Radio Pictures production Of Human Bondage, accepted the relatively small role of Arlene in the hope her cooperation would convince Jack Warner to lend her to the rival studio for the film. Her ploy worked, and when Warner received word about her dynamic performance inBondage, he elevated her to top billing in Frisco.[1]Part of the Warner Brothers release was filmed on location in San Francisco. It was remade as Spy Ship in 1942.
The SFPL will be screening Fog Over Frisco at the West Portal Branch at 6:30 next Tuesday, July 23.
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