It's All About the Genes

Movies held every Wednesday night at 5:30 PM in the Marc Jacobs Reading Room.

October 14: French Connection (1971, 1h 44m)-A pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal. Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider

October 21: Blazing Saddles (1974, 1h 33m)- In order to ruin a western town and steal their land, a corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary. Gene Wilder, Cleavon Little, Slim Pickens

October 28: Leave Her to Heaven (1945, 1h 50m)- A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them. Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain