Winter Holiday Schedule

All Library branches will be closed on the following days for the Winter Holiday:

Tuesday, December 24th

Wednesday, December 25th

Thursday, December 26th

Tuesday, December 31st

Wednesday, January 1st

Mr. & Mrs. F.L. Schlagle & Turner Library will also be closed on:

Monday, December 23rd

Friday, December 27th

Monday, December 30th

Mad for the Movies: Prison - There Was a Crooked Man

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Age Group:

Teens, Adults

Program Description

Event Details

For the month of April, we will be showing movies set in jail.  The opportunity for escape is ever present in the genre, but these films will have the added wrinkle of depicting or expressing the need for rehabilitation and reform.

On this night, we are watching Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1970 film "There Was a Crooked Man" starring Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, and Warren Oates.  It is rated R.

Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pitman.

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