Flick Whitlock works regular shifts at the Beguile Cinema in downtown Beguile. No one can quite remember exactly how long they have been in Beguile but they were a welcome sight in the ticket box at the front of the cinema.
One or two older members of Beguile seem to have a vague recollection of a 1930s Film Noir Festival after which Flick started taking shifts at the cinema ticket box. The owner of the Beguile Cinema, Harvey Edison, claims that Flick is the best worker the cinema has ever had. He tells people that they are reliable and good at their job.
Harvey was the first to laugh out loud when a young movie enthusiast wrote a blog post hinting at Flick having an uncanny resemblance to a 1930s B-grade actress by the name of Meg Hardy. This revelation caused a mild stir in the community. Some people even pointed out that one of the features at the Film Noir Festival, The Dark Streets, a thriller about a detective searching for a woman suspected of killing her husband, only to fall in love with her and help her escape, had featured Meg Hardy as the femme fatale. When intrigued Begulians had sought out the film The Dark Streets no one could find it. Although he was sure he had once had the film Harvey put the inability of anyone to locate the film down to mass hysteria caused by the wonderful film event and refused to talk about it.
Although the fervour died down and Flick just kept doing a stellar job at the cinema, there are times that patrons will whisper to each other after they have served them. They note their look and the way that every now and then some people claimed that they are sure that just for a second they would swear that they see Flick flicker. Those who have seen this usually keep it to themselves putting it down to a trick of the light.
