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The Glass Web

(Jack Arnold, 1953) 

Introduced by Robert Furmanek, 3-D Film Archive

3D | New Restoration

A woman in a black dress is lying on the floor clutching a string of pearls.

The 3-D Film Archive’s Robert Furmanek returns to introduce the thriller The Glass Web, a film noir classic from the director of Creature from the Black Lagoon!

In The Glass Web, a manipulative actress (Kathleen Hughes) is having an affair with both the married writer (John Forsythe) of a television show that recreates real crimes and the show’s researcher (Edward G. Robinson). When she shows up dead, the researcher proposes they base the next episode on her murder. But who killed her? 

The film is one of the great 3D thrillers of the 1950s directed by Jack Arnold (Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Incredible Shrinking Man). Robert Furmanek introduces the screening and discusses the 3-D Film Archive’s recent restoration work on the picture. (81 mins., 3D DCP) 

Screened in conjunction with the Columbus Moving Picture Show, an annual gathering of cinephiles that takes place May 22–25 at the Crowne Plaza North. For more information, please visit their website.

IMAGE CAPTION
The Glass Web, courtesy of Universal Pictures.

Program Support

FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Ohio Humanities

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Rohauer Collection Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Wexner Family
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Mellon Foundation
Every Page Foundation
Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
CampusParc
Nationwide Foundation
Lois S. and H. Roy Chope Fund of The Columbus Foundation
The Columbus Foundation
Axium Packaging

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection
David Crane and Elizabeth Dang
Louise Lambert Braver
 

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