Nicholas Ray's potent 1956 CinemaScope melodrama dealt with the ill effects of cortisone on a frustrated middle-class grammar-school teacher at about the same time that the first wave of 'wonder' drugs hit the market.

Paul Newman plays a young lawyer who faces emotional and ethical dilemmas as he defends a friend against a murder charge while climbing the social ladder in "The Young Philadelphians," this month's installment in the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library's Classic Film Series.

The 9th Palm Springs Film Noir Festival, renamed the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Film Festival after last year's death of its founder, will feature a mix of 14 classic and neo-noir movies with appearances by some of the genre's biggest stars, it was announced today.