Leader: Mary Lee Sargent

Fridays, 10 AM – Noon | Oct 6 – Nov 10* @ Baker Free Library, Bow

This seminar has viewed and discussed the films of Alfred Hitchcock, and will screen and discuss the conclusion of the Hitchcock series: Torn (1966), Topaz (1969), Frenzy (1972), Family Plot (1976), and three early films. Two of these early films, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935) and The Secret Agent (1936) will be shown at the Baker Free Library in Bow.

*A final film, The Lady Vanishes (1938), will be screened at home and discussed at a venue to be determined. This seminar meets year- round every Friday morning from 10 to noon, but folks may continue or leave at any time after the LINEC term.

Mary Lee Sargent has been a cinéphile since she was 5 and saw the first film she can remember, Disney’s Dumbo (1941). As a teenager, afternoons spent ironing in front of the 3 PM TV movie introduced her to the films of the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s, from the sublime (Citizen Kane) to the ridiculous (Lum and Abner and Charley Chan films). She taught US and European history at Parkland College in Champaign, IL and was an adjunct at several NH colleges and universities.