This is not Touro Street. It is Thames Street. The Strand/Jane Pickens-to-be was around the corner and up a block from this spot with the Star Theatre sign on Thames Street.
The film “Mir Kumen On” has been restored in recent years and reshown and made available on video formats. Particularly disturbing is the knowledge that the sanitarium would be destroyed by the Nazis and that many of the Jewish workers and children, tragically, would wind up in Treblinka and almost certain death.
Fabulous movie!
This is 1956.
I saw the film here during this run and found it compelling.
The film in Italy was known as “Italiani Brava Gente” (plural, Italians). In the US there was an alternate title “Attack and Retreat.”
It would eventually be come Beneficent House, an apartment complex opposite Beneficent Church.
It was also staged in Boston in October of 1945 at the Plymouth Theatre there.
Tracy performed in the play on Broadway. It ran at the Plymouth Theatre from November 1945 to January 1946 for 81 performances.
The late Joe Jarvis, once the manager.
This is not Touro Street. It is Thames Street. The Strand/Jane Pickens-to-be was around the corner and up a block from this spot with the Star Theatre sign on Thames Street.
Recently scheduled on TCM.
Part of a lengthy festival of Chaplin revivals.
It was playing on a double bill with “Gate of Hell,” which I had seen before and didn’t have time for on this day.
“Young Cassidy”.
Previous name: CINEMA I.
To vindanpar: The feature can be seen, complete, on YouTube. No subtitles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK6cIOzM1Ds
The film “Mir Kumen On” has been restored in recent years and reshown and made available on video formats. Particularly disturbing is the knowledge that the sanitarium would be destroyed by the Nazis and that many of the Jewish workers and children, tragically, would wind up in Treblinka and almost certain death.
A 1940 film released after the war in the U.S.
DEMOLISHED after September 1964 for the construction of Bushnell Plaza. It was torn down along with its sister Loew’s Poli Theatre next to it.
Boxoffice, November 4, 1963 item: “The long-shuttered Breed Theatre was destroyed by fire.”
This would be be venue for the Montreal World Film Festival after 1977.
Trade ad from Boxoffice.
February 1983.
I don’t think the film mentioned was called “Erotica.” It had to have been EROICA, a 1958 movie about World War II events directed by Andrzej Munk.
Looks like 1942.
The store on the left was “Emo’s Spa,” a variety store with convenience-store items, a lunch counter, a pinball machine.