Sunday Espresso Matinee: Based on a Book
Sundays from 11am-4pm
at The Little Theatre Auditorium

LTA and NL Roaming Cinema presents Sunday Espresso Matinees at Little Theatre Auditorium.
🎟 Tickets: $2-$10 Pay What You Can!

📽️ ☕ 🍸 Hang out, chat with friends, enjoy movies, espresso drinks and cocktails!
🎥🤩🍿Sunday Espresso Matinee feature movies with a various theme each week.

Films based on books. Extra special for Sinclair Lewis fans: in one, Lewis is acting, and 1 film is based on “It Can’t Happen Here”.
🎥11a ~ Tom Sawyer (1930, John Cromwell) Stars Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green. Based on Mark Twain’s book, Tom and Huck have adventures, witness crimes and more.
Runtime 1 hr 25 min

🎭12:25p ~ Camille (1926, Ralph Barton) Paul Robeson plays author Alexandre Dumas, Minnesota writer Sinclair Lewis plays allegorical figures, and this fever dream of a short film has many cameos, including Norma Talmadge and Charlie Chaplin as Mike the Bookkeeper and Sinclair Lewis as Allegorical figures. Runtime 26 min

📽️12:50p ~ Of Human Bondage (1934, Cromwell) stars Leslie Howard & Bette Davis
A sensitive artist becomes trapped by a cruel waitress. Based on W. Somerset Maugham novel.
Runtime 1 hr 23 min

🎞️2:15p ~ Shadow on the Land (1968, Richard Sarafian) Stars Jackie Cooper, John Forsythe, Gene Hackman. TV movie based on It Can’t Happen Here, fascist president vs resistance movement. It was considered fantasy/sci-fi when it was aired in1968. Runtime 1 hr 40 min

+Short films if time

This activity is funded in part with grants from the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council made possible by the voters of Minnesota, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.