Tideswell Cinema’s film this month, ‘Bicycle Thieves’, was so good that the Academy Awards in 1950 granted it an Honorary Award – because in those days they didn’t have a category for Foreign Language films! Fifty years later it was still ranked the sixth greatest film ever!
Made in 1948, this Italian masterpiece is set in the post war years and is the story of a struggling working class man who at last gets a good job, for which he needs his bicycle. But then it is stolen. The desperate father and his plucky young son set out to find it, combing the streets of Rome. In Italian, with English sub-titles, the film will be shown upstairs in the George on Thursday 30th November at 7.30 p.m.
Guests are welcome to join our members, for just £4, and the landlord of the George is happy to provide a pre-show meal (01298 872840).