vindapar, is that the one that starts with advance sales for a major four hour film event and ends as a TV Guide listing for the one hour version? If, so I have a copy somewhere.
By late 1996 this theatre was clearly listing four titles with full schedules in the NYT Weekend Movie Clock. Does anyone know if it was really ever a quad or were the show times simply a smoke screen for double-booked screens?
I looked up the ads and one of the reasons for the long run may have been that for much of it, the film ran a Broadway show schedule with matinees only on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday with three shows on Saturdays. So for much of the run, there was only one show per day.
After the huge success of M.A.S.H, 20th Century-Fox realized that they could market PATTON to the anti-war youth market by rushing it out into wide release. They took it out of roadshow early and cashed in. The “A Salute to a Rebel” catch line had already been abandoned earlier in the run. They later re-released them as a double feature.
The other three theatres were the RKO 23rd St., Trans-Lux 85th St., and the RKO Albee in Brooklyn. Judging by the show times at the Trans-Lux, I suspect there was no intermission.
As a regular here I can tell you that there ARE never ending escalators. There are NO bed bugs. Never have been.
Great website on the Lyric.
https://www.bahlt.org/
This appears in the Film Daily Yearbooks until at least 1965.
42nd Street is also Le Jeune Road, named after a Belgian developer who once owned most of the land around it.
It was the Laffmovie from 1942 to 1953. It was the Empire before and after.
“WILLARD” moved over to the Criterion in late July 1971.
Another short life, over-priced tourist rip-off “museum”. Like National Geographic’s latest con of shark fakes or Gulliver’s Travels.
Unfortunately, this kind of thing happened all the time WITH full time projectionists.
If you watch the ad on TCM it is just part of a promo to sell the 60th Anniversary Blu-Ray.
The New York Philharmonic is also showing “2001” on September 14 & 15 with live musical accompaniment. They have a print with dialogue only.
“Scent of Mystery” was on TCM recently in its Cinerama version. I can’t think of a film more deserving of this Mad Magazine spoof.
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I would have enjoyed watching movies at the Belch Art or the Art Burp.
I have posted the Mad Magazine parody on the Cinema Treasures Facebook page.
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vindapar, is that the one that starts with advance sales for a major four hour film event and ends as a TV Guide listing for the one hour version? If, so I have a copy somewhere.
Vindanpar, PAINT YOUR WAGON played at the State for 16 weeks. That London run may have been a UK exclusive.
There were no newspaper movie clocks then and the RKO listings did not have show times, so I can’t tell.
bigjoe, they used quotes that described the film as “a joyous hit” and “rich in humor”. I am sure the locals knew exactly what that story was about.
By late 1996 this theatre was clearly listing four titles with full schedules in the NYT Weekend Movie Clock. Does anyone know if it was really ever a quad or were the show times simply a smoke screen for double-booked screens?
I looked up the ads and one of the reasons for the long run may have been that for much of it, the film ran a Broadway show schedule with matinees only on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday with three shows on Saturdays. So for much of the run, there was only one show per day.
In Miami Beach it was sold as light comedy, so go figure!
Variety stated back then that THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK had bombed everywhere except New York and Miami Beach.
After the huge success of M.A.S.H, 20th Century-Fox realized that they could market PATTON to the anti-war youth market by rushing it out into wide release. They took it out of roadshow early and cashed in. The “A Salute to a Rebel” catch line had already been abandoned earlier in the run. They later re-released them as a double feature.
The roadshow run of LAST TANGO IN PARIS at the Gotham (Trans Lux East)outgrossed YOUNG WINSTON, NICHOLAS & ALEXANDRA and MAN OF LA MANCHA.
MAN OF LA MANCHA played for about 18 weeks. FIDDLER ON THE ROOF played for a year and outgrossed both FUNNY GIRL and OLIVER!.
The other three theatres were the RKO 23rd St., Trans-Lux 85th St., and the RKO Albee in Brooklyn. Judging by the show times at the Trans-Lux, I suspect there was no intermission.