The Dryden will screen Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich, U.S. / Mexico 1954, 94 min., 35mm) as part of the Ernest Borgnine series.

Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, and Ernest Borgnine star in this dirty, dusty, sweaty, cynical, and violent western, set in Mexico during the Franco-Mexican War, which preceded similar reinventions of America's foremost genre by the likes of Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone for a decade. Vera Cruz made a profound impact on François Truffaut, then a film critic, who compared director Robert Aldrich's efforts to those of Jean Cocteau and Orson Welles!

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-Jan-2]