the screen

The Gold Rush. "I thought you was a chicken," says Big Jim McKay to prospector Charlie Chaplin. "GEORGIA!" Charlie screams in big letters later on. This 1925 movie is so good that there would be little reason to write about anything else this week.

Except that Mather House Films is showing Gone with the Wind.

Woody Allen's movies are ubiquitous this week.

Anatomy of a Murder. Joseph M. Welch, the famous lawyer best known for his speech directed at Sen. Joe McCarthy during the Army-McCarthy hearings ("Have you no sense of decency. Have you, at long last, no sense of decency..."), plays the judge in Otto Preminger's puzzling courtroom story with Jimmy Stewart as the country lawyer, Arthur O'Connel as the drunken partner Stewart arouses, George C. Scott as savage prosecutor, Duke Ellington score and piano, 1959.