The Dryden will screen Carrie (William Wyler, U.S. 1952, 121 min., 35mm) as part of the William Wyler series.

One of William Wyler's most neglected films is a masterful adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's fatalistic novel Sister Carrie. Jennifer Jones plays a poor girl from the slums of Chicago who is befriended by a kind, but married, restaurant manager Laurence Olivier. When the two become illicit lovers, they each undergo a reversal of fortunes: hers triumphant, his tragic. Wyler's meticulous direction is matched by Olivier's peerless portrayal, perhaps his finest on-screen performance.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2018-Jun-18]