Cinecon to Screen Four Archive-Restored Films

Every year, movie lovers in Los Angeles spend Labor Day weekend at the Cinecon Classic Film Festival, an event comprised of rare silent and early sound films, celebrity guests and a movie collectible show.

This year, festivalgoers will be treated to four films restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive:

• Way Out West (1937)
  Laurel & Hardy's only joint venture into the Old West is often considered their finest feature.
• The Goose Woman (1925)
  Director Clarence Brown depicts a former prima donna who descends into alcoholism.
• Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath (1928)
  A comedy about two men who escape to a bath house when their dance hall is raided.
• She Wanted a Millionaire (1932)
  A Pre-Code drama in which beauty contest-winner Joan Bennett forsakes newspaperman Spencer Tracy for millionaire James Kirkwood.

Watch KABC's news story, below.  As Cinecon's Stan Taffel puts it, "[The Laurel & Hardy] films have every reason to be seen today...and that's why UCLA is taking the time to preserve as many of the original camera negatives as possible."