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SUMMARY:The Burning Cross / Open Secret
DESCRIPTION:Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be 
 assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are 
 assigned on a first come\, first served basis. The box office opens one 
 hour before the event.\n \n\nThe Burning Cross\n\nU.S.\, 1947\n\nWorld 
 restoration premiere! \n\nOne of the boldest films of the postwar period to 
 tackle homegrown facism\, the independent production\, The Burning Cross\, 
 was the first anti-Klan film to explicitly depict Black Americans as 
 victims of KKK terror on screen. A newly discharged veteran disgruntled by 
 the changes he finds in his small town gravitates to the brutes of a Klan 
 front group\, the American Only Association. The brutal realism of the 
 film’s depiction of the rhetoric and tactics culminates in the murder of 
 a Black family burned in their home. The film\, however\, is not without 
 compromise as an opening prologue restored in this version suggests that 
 the Klan was originally founded by “men of good intentions” who would 
 be betrayed by a corrupt\, greedy few. \n\n35mm\, b&w\, 77 min. Director: 
 Walter Colmes. Screenwriter: Aubrey Wisberg. With: Henry H. Daniels Jr.\, 
 Virginia Patton\, Dick Rich. \n\n35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA 
 Film & Television Archive. Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive 
 and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by The Hobson/Lucas 
 Family Foundation.\n \n\nOpen Secret\n\nU.S.\, 1948\n\nReleased the year 
 after both Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and Crossfire (1947) made 
 anti-semitism their explicit subject\, this independently produced film 
 noir takes a grittier approach to the social problem despite never 
 mentioning the word\, although the implications are clear. Directed by 
 Austrian-born émigre John Reinhardt\, Open Secret unfolds as a small town 
 mystery with a newlywed couple investigating the disappearance of the 
 friend they’ve come to visit. What they discover is a community so 
 corrupted by hate even children join in victimizing anyone who isn’t 
 “the right kind of people.” Ironically\, a sweaty cabal stands behind 
 it all with ambitions to take their violent campaign to the national 
 political stage. \n\n35mm\, b&w\, 68 min. Director: John Reinhardt. 
 Screenwriters: Henry Blankfort\, Max Wilk. With: John Ireland\, Jane 
 Randolph\, Sheldon Leonard. \n\n35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA 
 Film & Television Archive.Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive 
 with funding provided by The Packard Humanities Institute.\n\n—Senior 
 Public Programmer Paul Malcol\n\nJoin Meeting: 
 https://cinema.ucla.edu/events/burning-cross-open-secret-2026-03-07/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, UCLA Film & Television Archive
ORGANIZER;CN="Suzy Lee":MAILTO:szlee@library.ucla.edu
CATEGORIES:Screening
CONTACT;CN="Suzy Lee":MAILTO:szlee@library.ucla.edu
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URL:https://calendar.library.ucla.edu/event/15836250
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