LITTLE FUGITIVE   Director: Morris Engel, Ray Ashley, Ruth Orkin Year: 1953 Runtime: 80 min. Country: USA Language: English Color: B&W Format: 16mm

When a seven-year-old boy (Richie Andrusco) is tricked into believing he killed his older brother, he gathers his meager possessions and flees to New York's nether wonderland: Coney Island. Upon and beneath the crowded boardwalk, Joey experiences a day and night filled with adventures and mysteries, resulting in a film that is refreshingly spontaneous and thoroughly delightful. Widely regarded as one of the most influential and enjoyable films of the American independent cinema, Little Fugitive is an utterly charming fable that poetically captures the joys and wonders of childhood. "Our New Wave would never have come into being if it hadn't been for the young Morris Engel...with his fine Little Fugitive." — François Truffaut "A wondrous illustration of the eccentricities of a small boy. All hail to Little Fugitive and to those who made it." — Bosley Crowther, The New York Times     showtime Tuesday, April 5 at 7 pm location THE GREEN ROOM 144 West Street (across from the Comstock Hotel) admission $6 general / $4 GBFS members

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