Mike Cline's THEN PLAYING: January 2013

Sunday, January 27, 2013

STARS ON THE 1940's STATE SCREEN

STATE THEATRE
February 16, 1941

STATE THEATRE
January 31, 1943

STATE THEATRE
February 7, 1943

STATE THEATRE
July 18, 1943

STATE THEATRE
April 1, 1945

STATE THEATRE
June 24, 1945

STATE THEATRE
October 27, 1946

STATE THEATRE
November 23, 1947

STATE THEATRE
March 14, 1948

STATE THEATRE
June 20, 1948

Saturday, January 26, 2013

CLINT EASTWOOD as DIRTY HARRY

"Well, I'm all broken up about that man's rights."

"Well, let's have it."
"Have what?"
"A report! What have you been doing?"
"Well, for the past three quarters of an hour, I've been sitting on my ass in your outer office waiting on you."

"Damn it, Harry, that's the Mayor you're talking to!"

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Harry Callahan didn't care. He lived by his own code, even if he did carry a badge. He was often in trouble, with the thugs on the streets and his own people on the force. Just one of the reasons they called him Dirty Harry.

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The 1971 Warner Bros. release, DIRTY HARRY, was a smash and would be the first of a five film franchise spanning seventeen years. There probably could have been ten Harry Callahan films, as far as the public was concerned, but Clint Eastwood put a halt at five.

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DIRTY HARRY opened for the first time on Christmas Day, 1971. The movie would eventually have eleven different engagements in Salisbury and would be on local screens a total of eighty-six days. An amazing feat.

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December 25, 1971 - January 11, 1972 - TERRACE THEATRE

January 12 - 20, 1972 - CAPITOL THEATRE

March 31 - April 6, 1972 - THUNDERBIRD DRIVE-IN THEATRE

May 26 - June 1, 1972 - CAPITOL THEATRE

August 25 - 31, 1972 - THUNDERBIRD DRIVE-IN THEATRE

January 26 - February 1, 1973 - TERRACE THEATRE

February 2 - 8, 1973 - THUNDERBIRD DRIVE-IN THEATRE

April 18 - 24, 1975 - TERRACE THEATRE

May 9 - 15, 1975 - THUNDERBIRD DRIVE-IN THEATRE

January 9 - 11, 1976 - THUNDERBIRD DRIVE-IN THEATRE

April 20 - May 3, 1979 - THUNDERBIRD DRIVE-IN THEATRE
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"Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"

Sunday, January 20, 2013

FUN FROM THE FORTIES

CAPITOL THEATRE
January 21, 1940

STATE THEATRE
March 10, 1940

CAPITOL THEATRE
March 31, 1940

STATE THEATRE
April 7, 1940

STATE THEATRE
April 25, 1940

SPENCER THEATRE
May 5, 1940

VICTORY THEATRE
May 3, 1942

STATE THEATRE
July 12, 1942

CAPITOL THEATRE
December 13, 1942

CAPITOL THEATRE
February 14, 1943

VICTORY THEATRE
August 8, 1943

VICTORY THEATRE
May 21, 1944

CAPITOL THEATRE
August 28, 1945

STATE THEATRE
June 13, 1946

STATE THEATRE
January 4, 1948

Saturday, January 19, 2013

THE THIRTIES WERE TREMENDOUS

CAPITOL THEATRE
January 6, 1932

CAPITOL THEATRE
October 20, 1932

CAPITOL THEATRE
January 15, 1933

CAPITOL THEATRE
February 21, 1933

CAPITOL THEATRE
December 8, 1935

CAPITOL THEATRE
December 1, 1936

CAPITOL THEATRE
March 3, 1937

CAPITOL THEATRE
May 9, 1937

STATE THEATRE
July 18, 1937

CAPITOL THEATRE
April 10, 1938

STATE THEATRE
August 7, 1938

CAPITOL THEATRE
January 29, 1939

CAPITOL THEATRE
March 22, 1939

STATE THEATRE
July 9, 1939

SPENCER THEATRE
January 29, 1939

Sunday, January 13, 2013

ENTER 007

May 8, 1963 - - DR. NO, the first JAMES BOND motion picture, was released in the United States.

It wasn't a big deal.

At this point, movie goers had little knowledge of the James Bond character. DR. NO played four days in Salisbury and was gone. It did return for two obligatory drive-in engagements several months later, but that was it.

May 27, 1964 - - FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, the second JAMES BOND motion picture, was released in the United States.

It wasn't a big deal either.

We still didn't really know who James Bond was.

January 9, 1965 - - GOLDFINGER, the third James Bond motion picture, was released in the United States.

HOLY COW!! Out of nowhere, 007 was the biggest thing going. As soon as we saw actress Shirley Eaton on the cover of LIFE magazine, spray painted gold, we couldn't get enough of the man with a license to kill.

GOLDFINGER was in such theatrical demand that enough prints couldn't be made fast enough to keep up, so many theatres received the next-best thing...the return of DR. NO and FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE...together!

This time it was a big deal!

And 007 has been a big deal ever since. SKYFALL, the 2012 BOND feature, has already become the most financially successful and many are saying the best of all the Bonds, this nearly a half-century since DR. NO first played movie houses. And there's no end in sight. As it turned out, it would be James Bond, not Auric Goldfinger, to be the man with the Midas touch.

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DR. NO eventually played Rowan County screens nine times, before giving way to newer BOND titles.

June 1 - 4, 1963 - CENTER THEATRE

July 28 - 30. 1963 - 601 DRIVE-IN THEATRE

November 28 - 30, 1963 - SALISBURY DRIVE-IN THEATRE

June 10 - 16, 1965 - CENTER THEATRE

August 15 - 17, 1965 - 601 DRIVE-IN THEATRE

September 29 - October 1, 1965 - SALISBURY DRIVE-IN THEATRE

September 28 - October 4, 1966 - CENTER THEATRE

April 9 - 11, 1967 - 601 DRIVE-IN THEATRE

July 27 - 29, 1969 - 601 DRIVE-IN THEATRE

Saturday, January 12, 2013

THE MIGHTY "WIND"

Since it's Atlanta premiere in December 1939, it's always been considered the yardstick by which all movies are measured. It held the box office receipts record for nearly thirty years. And, in spite of higher ticket prices for newer films eclipsing its record, to this day, GWTW has still sold more movie tickets than any other movie.

The movie first went into general release in January 1940. Salisbury got it two months later, an incredible feat for a small town. And throughout the next thirty-six years, it played at local theatres thirty times.

March 11 - 16, 1940 - CAPITOL THEATRE
March 17 - 22, 1941 - CAPITOL THEATRE
May 13 - 16, 1942 - CAPITOL THEATRE
June 25 - 26, 1942 - ROCKWELL THEATRE
July 27 - 28, 1942 - SPENCER THEATRE
May 12 - 13, 1943 - SPENCER THEATRE
June 29, 1943 - ROCKWELL THEATRE
April 27 - May 1, 1948 - CAPITOL THEATRE
June 7 - 8, 1948 - SPENCER THEATRE
December 1 - 2, 1948 - SALISBURY DRIVE-IN THEATRE
August 9 - 11, 1949 - RITZ THEATRE
August 22 - 28, 1954 - CAPITOL THEATRE
November 26 - December 2, 1954 - 601 DRIVE-IN THEATRE
April 3 - 5, 1955 - ROCKWELL THEATRE
June 29 - July 1, 1955 - SKYLINE DRIVE-IN THEATRE
April 7 - 15, 1961 - CAPITOL THEATRE
June 16 - 20, 1961 - SALISBURY DRIVE-IN THEATRE
October 29 - 30, 1961 - 601 DRIVE-IN THEATRE

June 17 - 19, 1962 - CENTER THEATRE
January 5 - 21, 1969 - CAPITOL THEATRE
November 7 - 9, 1969 - SALISBURY DRIVE-IN THEATRE
April 24 - 30, 1970 - TERRACE THEATRE
October 9 - 15, 1970 - CAPITOL THEATRE
October 29 - November 4, 1971 - TERRACE THEATRE
November 1 - 7, 1974 - TERRACE THEATRE
November 8 - 14, 1974 - CAPITOL THEATRE
February 12 - 13, 1975 - CENTER THEATRE
March 22, 1975 - TERRACE THEATRE
November 7 - 13, 1975 - TERRACE THEATRE
October 8 - 14, 1976 - TERRACE THEATRE