The Dryden will screen The Godless Girl (Cecil B. Demille, U.S. 1929, 118 min., 35mm) with live piano accompaniment by Philip C. Carli as part of the Silent Tuesdays series.

A high-voltage melodrama of wild youth and institutional abuse based on real events: Judy, mouthpiece for the Godless Society, a group of teenage atheists, locks horns with Bob, class president and ardent defender of the Christian faith, and tragedy strikes. Both are sentenced to time in a notorious reform school, where a sadistic guard known only as "The Brute" awaits. The Godless Girl is part topical, part hysterical, part spectacle—and pure Cecil B. Demille.

[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Nov-28]