The Dryden will screen Cobra Woman (Robert Siodmak, U.S. 1944, 70 min., 35mm) as part of the Museum Treasures series.

Though she really attained A-level status only in her own mind, Dominican beauty Maria Montez was once known as the Queen of Technicolor. Her high-camp persona was so "exotic" in the parlance of Hollywood ballyhoo it could only be captured by that most glorious of color systems. We present her most beloved film—a South Seas adventure in which Montez plays a kidnapped bride and her evil sister, the high priestess of a deadly snake cult!—as it must be seen: in a rare 35mm Technicolor dye-transfer print.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2016-Dec-27]