Sunset Drive-In
4291 Highway 16,
Plentywood,
MT
59254
4291 Highway 16,
Plentywood,
MT
59254
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Boxoffice, Feb. 10, 1958: “The Orpheum Theatre and Sunset Drive-In here have been purchased by Myron Bean and Lee Riley, owners and operators of the Starlite Drive-In at Forsyth, which they plan to sell.”
Current Aerial shows the screen and marquee have been removed.
The Orpheum Theatre is open and community operated on a volunteer basis. It has switched to digital projection. So Plentywood does have an outlet for motion pictures.
Hopefully a lot of the drive-ins that shut down last season will re open with the new lease to own digital projectors
Ken..can you mark it closed!!
Yup…It is closed!! That is the problem in small community’s, there just was not enough business to switch to digital projection. After reading some FB posts, I think maybe they quit to soon. You lease projectors now.
Sadly, per Facebook, the Sunset Drive-In in Plentywood, Montana, closed at the end of August this year. Believe the owners, and the town, are trying to renovate the local movie theater in Plentywood (new digital projection system). I wanted to see a movie at this drive in… and I never made it.
July 28-30 1996 Now Showing at the SUNSET DRIVE-IN THEATRE is “THE PHANTOM”
July 31- August 3 1996 Now Showing “THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME”
August 4-6 1996 NOW SHOWING “ THE CRAFT”
August 7-10 1996 Now Showing “THE CABLE GUY”
August 11-13 1996 Now Showing “THE ARRIVAL”
August 14-17 1996 Now Playing “PHENOMENON”
August 18-20 1996 Now Playing “STRIPTEASE”
August 21- 25 1996 Now Showing “ERASER”
August 26- 31 1996 Now showing “MULTIPLICITY”
Sept 1-1996 Now Playing “MULTIPLICITY”
COMING SOON “INDEPENDENCE DAY”
RADIO SOUND at the SUNSET DRIVE-in, 90.1 FM.
They sent me this flyer back in 1996 along with some pictures after I wrote the SUNSET about reading an article in BOXOFFICE.I thought it was awful nice of those folks to go to all that trouble.Just another goodie i dug up.
Thanks I will because there are quite a few Drive-ins in Movies I like.
Thanks so much. Here is a harder one and I am not running a test,but do you know the name of the Drive in in the movie “TELEFON” with Charles Bronson. I remember because while filming in the lot they ran the same loop through the projector during the action.I figured it was Southern California. Is FORT BENTON DRIVE IN still open.
T&L was filmed in Fort Benton and Great Falls, MT. So I would bet the drive-in in Fort Benton was the most likely place where the drive-in scenes were filmed.
Courtesy of imdb.com
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In the movie"THUNDERBOLT andLIGHTFOOT" there is a Drive-in that is in a good part of the film.And i think the movie was shot in Montana and i wonder if anyone up that way knows the Drive-in.I think it was filmed somewhere around those Northwest states.
Small photo on this link:
http://www.driveinmovie.com/MT.htm