Liberty Theatre

305 Central Avenue,
Great Falls, MT 59404

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BullyOhio
BullyOhio on May 1, 2017 at 8:59 pm

This theater can be seen in the Clint Eastwood Movie Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. Near the end of the movie George Kennedy drives by it twice before plowing into a department store window.

rivest266
rivest266 on December 18, 2016 at 7:08 am

Dallasmovietheatres, you must be talking about another Liberty theatre elsewhere. It opened on August 23rd, 1921. Have a look at this newspaper clip.

Found on Newspapers.com

Grand opening ads in the photo section.

DavidZornig
DavidZornig on November 14, 2015 at 7:49 pm

1952 photo added courtesy of the Distinctly Montana Facebook page.

DavidDynamic
DavidDynamic on July 21, 2011 at 2:17 am

The Goggle pin is off by a mile (literally) at least and on the wrong side of the Missouri River. Just updated the picture. D. A. Davidson convinced the city of Great Falls to close one block of the street between their building and the Liberty Theater— a plaza/park was installed and the two building were connected via a pedestrian conduit.

DavidDynamic
DavidDynamic on May 4, 2011 at 9:45 pm

Unfortunately the Public Drug Building, site of the vanished Pantages Theater, was seriously gutted by fire in the latter part of 2010 or early part of 2011. Structural assessment has been done and it appears that a rebuilding of the interior is planned—odd that the Set Free Ministry site doesn’t seem to mention it unless I missed something. The noted Public Drug was relocated shortly after the fire.

elmsdale
elmsdale on April 7, 2010 at 11:09 am

This Theater is stylistically similar to Seattle’s Liberty Theatre (1916). The theatre was managed by Jensen and Von Herberg, who also hired Ryan to design Butte’s Rialto Theatre.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on August 29, 2007 at 10:44 pm

This web page mentions in passing (in the caption to a photo of the city’s former Pantages Theater) that the Liberty Theatre in Great Falls was converted to office and retail space in 1978.

Another website has more information about Great Falls' Pantages Theater, which is currently unlisted at Cinema Treasures.