Some were advertised in the Providence Journal, but most were promoted through the “Voice of Italy” on WRIB by Rolando Petrella, who also leased the theatre(s) that ran the films.
Later it would become a standard drive-in, the Pike. I remember as a child of seven being taken by my parents to see a movie here. It certainly might have been this one in 1949 because of the Italian subject. This was a story of the monks of the Abbey of Montecassino and had reference to the WWII American bombings.
You could go by train from Narragansett Pier to Wakefield and back.
Narragansett Times.
Ad in the Pawtucket Times.
Ad from Pawtucket Times.
Photo of theatre with marquee displaying this program can be seen on this page.
That film program ran From November 21, 1970 to November 23, 1970. (Not 1971.)
From the Pawtucket Times.
“Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys” was a 1958 film.
A 1958 release.
The building looks pretty much the same now, with cinema entrance and shops.
Both are good Italian films, not trash, probably shown here in English-dubbed form.
“Suor Letizia”.
Polish and Italian cinema.
Films playing were “Law of the North” and “Flames” from 1932.
Films playing were “Law of the North” and “Flames” from 1932.
Not related to this, but in 1996 the Odeon was destroyed in a fire.
Perhaps the most disturbing, in a hilarious way, Italian film of the 1970s.
Some were advertised in the Providence Journal, but most were promoted through the “Voice of Italy” on WRIB by Rolando Petrella, who also leased the theatre(s) that ran the films.
Oresto Di Saia was also the architect of the beautiful Columbus Theatre in Providence.
Later it would become a standard drive-in, the Pike. I remember as a child of seven being taken by my parents to see a movie here. It certainly might have been this one in 1949 because of the Italian subject. This was a story of the monks of the Abbey of Montecassino and had reference to the WWII American bombings.
I attended several films during that month.
10th anniversary.
Now-lost film with Carlo Buti.
“Ivan’s Childhood”
Entrance to the auditorium was from the upper left of this photo.