Comments from RSM3853 - Cinema Treasures

RSM3853 commented about Delman Theatre on Dec 30, 2012 at 5:32 pm

Movies that played at the Delman Theater in Houston, TX from 01/01/73 to 12/31/75. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The Dates given are the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/73 1776 03/14/73 Billy Jack 03/28/73 Lost Horizon 06/06/73 Paper Moon 10/31/73 The Way We Were 12/19/73 Papillon 03/13/74 The Last Detail 05/01/74 Badlands 07/10/74 For Pete’s Sake 09/11/74 Harrad Summer 10/09/74 The Gambler 11/20/74 The Klansman 12/18/74 The Phantom of the Paradise 01/22/75 Malizia 02/12/75 The Stepford Wives 04/09/75 Harry and Tonto 04/23/75 Hearts and Minds 05/14/75 The Savage is Loose 05/21/75 Mandingo 09/17/75 The Man in the Glass Booth 10/08/75 Hard Times 11/12/75 Mahogany 12/17/75 The Story of O (I may have only scribbled down first-run films for this last batch, omitting second runs, etc., because I don’t think “Mandingo” stayed at the Delman for 4 months! But these are all my notes.)

RSM3853 commented about Delman Theatre on Dec 30, 2012 at 4:41 pm

Movies that played at the Delman Theater in Houston, TX from 01/01/67 to 12/31/72. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The Dates given are the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/67 Gambit 02/15/67 Georgy Girl 05/03/67 Blow-Up 06/28/67 Woman Times Seven 08/09/67 The Jokers 09/13/67 Our Man Flint/In Like Flint 09/27/67 Accident 10/04/67 Becket 10/18/67 The Birds, the Bees, and the Italians 11/15/67 The Sound of Music (pop prices) 12/13/67 Privilege 12/20/67 Valley of the Dolls 04/10/68 Closely Watched Trains 05/01/68 Elvira Madigan 07/17/68 How Sweet It Is! 09/04/68 The Secret Life of an American Wife 10/16/68 The Split 11/06/68 Penelope 11/13/68 Benjamin 11/27/68 Barefoot in the Park/The Odd Couple 12/18/68 Romeo and Juliet 03/26/69 The Love Bug 06/25/69 Goodbye, Columbus 09/24/69 Easy Rider

12/17/69 (Closed for refurbishing – purchased by Loew’s – renamed Loew’s Delman)

12/24/69 The Secret of Santa Vittoria 01/28/70 Gaily, Gaily 02/25/70 Z 04/22/70 The Kremlin Letter 04/29/70 Women in Love 05/27/70 Fellini’s Satyricon 06/24/70 The Landlord 07/15/70 The Strawberry Statement 08/12/70 They Call Me Mister Tibbs 09/02/70 The Revolutionary 09/16/70 The Angel Levine 09/23/70 Threesome 10/21/70 The Baby Maker 11/18/70 The Twelve Chairs 12/23/70 The Owl and the Pussycat 05/26/71 Lawrence of Arabia 06/16/71 Billy Jack 08/18/71 The Anderson Tapes 09/29/71 Drive, He Said 10/13/71 See No Evil 11/03/71 The French Connection 12/22/71 $ (Dollars) 02/16/72 The Last Picture Show 07/26/72 Butterflies are Free 10/25/72 The Deadly Trap 11/08/72 Dirty Little Billy 12/20/72 1776

RSM3853 commented about Delman Theatre on Dec 30, 2012 at 4:11 pm

Movies that played at the Delman Theater in Houston, TX from 01/01/63 to 12/31/66. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The Dates given are the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/63 In Search of the Castaways 02/06/63 Son of Flubber 04/10/63 The Miracle of the White Stallions 05/22/63 Sundays and Cybele 05/29/63 The Wrong Arm of the Law 06/12/63 Savage Sam/Yellowstone Cubs 07/17/63 Summer Magic 09/04/63 The Mouse on the Moon 09/18/63 Of Love and Desire/Marilyn 09/25/63 Oklahoma/The King and I 10/02/63 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 10/30/63 Fantasia 11/20/63 The Incredible Journey 12/25/63 The Sword in the Stone 02/05/64 Lilies of the Field 02/19/64 The Misadventures of Merlin Jones 03/25/64 A Tiger Walks 05/06/64 South Pacific 05/27/64 The Bridge on the River Kwai 06/17/64 The Three Lives of Thomasina 07/08/64 The Moon-Spinners 08/26/64 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow 10/07/64 Looking for Love/Kill or Cure 10/14/64 The Incredible Journey/20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 10/21/64 Mary Poppins 02/24/65 Those Calloways 03/31/65 World Without Sun 04/07/65 Seance on a Wet Afternoon/Dr. Strangelove 04/28/65 Girl with Green Eyes/That Man from Rio 05/05/65 Lawrence of Arabia 05/12/65 Harlow (Electronovision) 05/19/65 The Hustler 06/09/65 Marriage, Italian Style/Two Women 06/16/65 Tom Jones 06/23/65 Von Ryan’s Express 09/01/65 Casanova ‘70 09/29/65 Laurel & Hardy’s Laughing 20s 10/06/65 The Secret of My Success 10/27/65 Shenandoah/Charade 11/03/65 Carousel/Flower Drum Song 11/10/65 The Collector/Bambole 11/17/65 The Sword in the Stone/The Incredible Mr. Limpet 12/01/65 The Railroad Man 12/08/65 The Longest Day 12/22/65 The 10th Victim 01/26/66 Darling/Love with the Proper Stranger 02/02/66 Darling 03/09/66 An Evening with Batman and Robin 03/23/66 The Leather Boys 04/06/66 The Trouble with Angels 05/25/66 Born Free/The Golden Horseshoe Revue 06/29/66 The Guns of Navarone/Born Free 07/20/66 Dear John 09/14/66 The Sleeping Car Murder 09/28/66 Morgan 10/19/66 Gigi 11/09/66 The Wrong Box 12/21/66 Gambit

RSM3853 commented about Delman Theatre on Dec 30, 2012 at 3:47 pm

Movies that played at the Delman Theater in Houston, TX from 01/01/60 to 12/31/62. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The Dates given are the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/60 John Paul Jones 01/13/60 A Star is Born 01/20/60 Edge of Eternity/Yesterday’s Enemy 01/27/60 It Happened in Rome/Too Many Crooks 02/10/60 A Touch of Larceny 02/24/60 The Diary of Anne Frank 03/09/60 Operation Petticoat 05/11/60 Wild Strawberries 05/25/60 The Lovers 06/22/60 Around the World in 80 Days 07/20/60 Company of Hearts 08/03/60 The Greatest Show on Earth 08/17/60 Sons and Lovers 09/07/60 The Day they Robbed the Bank of England/Platinum High School 09/14/60 The Magician 10/05/60 The Jungle Cat 11/02/60 The 400 Blows 11/09/60 The Captain’s Table 12/21/60 Spartacus 03/15/61 The Virgin Spring 04/05/61 The Entertainer 05/24/61 Tunes of Glory 06/21/61 The League of Gentlemen 06/28/61 Never Take Candy from a Stranger/Beyond All Limits 07/05/61 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 07/19/61 A Raisin in the Sun 08/02/61 A Cold Wind in August 08/16/61 The Truth 09/20/61 Secrets of Women 09/27/61 Picnic/The Caine Mutiny 10/04/61 Hiroshima, My Love 10/11/61 Pure Hell at St. Trinian’s 10/18/61 Season of Passion 10/25/61 The Mark 11/15/61 The Man Who Wagged His Tail 11/22/61 Two-Way Stretch 12/06/61 Rocco and His Brothers 12/13/61 Never on Sunday/Room at the Top 12/20/61 Mysterious Island 12/27/61 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone 01/17/62 Call Me Genius 01/24/62 The Devil’s Eye 02/07/62 Leda 02/14/62 The Happy Thieves 02/21/62 Pinocchio 04/04/62 Splendor in the Grass/Fanny 04/11/62 Moon Pilot 05/16/62 Through a Glass Darkly 05/30/62 Pollyanna 06/06/62 Big Red 07/11/62 Oklahoma 08/01/62 Jack, the Giant Killer 08/08/62 Harold Lloyd’s World of Comedy/La Belle Americaine 08/22/62 Never Let Go/It Happened in Broad Daylight 08/29/62 A Taste of Honey 09/19/62 Wild Strawberries/Lesson in Love 09/26/62 Secrets of Women/The Virgin Spring 10/03/62 Waltz of the Toreadors/Damn Yankees 10/10/62 Almost Angels/Lady and the Tramp 11/14/62 Phaedra 12/05/62 Operation Snatch/Behind the Great Wall 12/12/62 The Magnificent Seven/The Pajama Game 12/19/62 In Search of the Castaways

RSM3853 commented about Tower Theatre on Dec 29, 2012 at 3:00 pm

Movies that played at the Tower Theater in Houston, TX from 01/01/70 to 12/31/75. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The dates listed are the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/70 Goodbye, Mr. Chips 02/25/70 A Nice Girl Like Me 03/04/70 Putney Swope 03/18/70 Airport 08/26/70 Putney Swope 09/02/70 Move 10/14/70 Performance 10/28/70 The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker 11/11/70 WUSA 12/23/70 Little Fauss and Big Halsey 02/03/71 No Blade of Grass 02/24/71 Gimme Shelter 03/31/71 The Priest’s Wife 04/14/71 Making It 04/28/71 Waterloo 05/19/71 Dr. Strangelove 05/26/71 Villain 06/09/71 Windsplitter 06/30/71 Carnal Knowledge 10/30/71 The Devils 11/24/71 Dagmar’s Hot Pants, Inc. 12/08/71 Born to Win 12/15/71 Fiddler on the Roof 12/13/72 Man of La Mancha 03/14/73 The Sound of Music 06/27/73 The Friends of Eddie Coyle 07/18/73 Images 08/01/73 The Hireling 08/08/73 Romeo and Juliet 09/05/73 Get to Know Your Rabbit 09/12/73 Harold and Maude 09/26/73 Red Sky at Morning (That Same Summer) 10/03/73 The Naked Ape 10/17/73 The Sterile Cuckoo/Tell Me You Love Me, Junie Moon 10/24/73 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex/Bananas 10/31/73 Arnold 11/07/73 The New Land 12/19/73 The Seven-Ups 02/13/74 I Am a Dancer 02/20/74 Chariots of the Gods 03/06/74 The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe 03/20/74 Zardoz 04/24/74 Tis Pity, She’s a Whore 05/15/74 Fiddler on the Roof 05/22/74 The Super Cops 06/12/74 Andy Warhol’s L'Amour 06/19/74 The Conversation 07/24/74 Carnal Knowledge 09/11/74 Journey Through the Past 09/25/74 Escape to Nowhere 10/09/74 Love and Anarchy 10/16/74 Christina 10/23/74 Shanks 10/30/74 The Family 11/13/74 Earthquake 06/25/75 The French Connection II 08/27/75 A Touch of Class 09/03/75 Freebie and the Bean 09/10/75 A Clockwork Orange/Deliverance 09/17/75 2001: A Space Odyssey 09/24/75 Doctor Zhivago 10/08/75 Singin' in the Rain 10/15/75 Gone With the Wind 11/12/75 Psychic Killer 11/26/75 Lisztomania 12/17/75 The Greatest Story Ever Told 12/24/75 The Hindenburg

RSM3853 commented about Tower Theatre on Dec 29, 2012 at 2:27 pm

Movies that played at the Tower Theater in Houston, TX from 01/01/64 to 12/31/69. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The dates listed are the Wednesday of the opening week. 12/18/63 The Cardinal 02/19/64 Charade 03/18/64 The Ceremony 03/15/64 No, My Darling Daughter 04/01/64 Notorious/Spellbound 04/08/64 The Fall of the Roman Empire 06/24/64 The Long Ships 07/08/64 The Pink Panther 09/23/64 Behold a Pale Horse 10/07/64 Mediterranean Holiday 10/14/64 The Third Secret 10/21/64 Four Days in November 10/28/64 That Man from Rio 11/04/64 The Conjugal Bed 11/11/64 My Fair Lady 09/01/65 Lord Jim 10/13/64 The Great Race 02/16/66 The Agony and the Ecstasy 04/20/66 Juliet of the Spirits 05/11/66 Lord Love a Duck 05/25/66 Stop the World, I Want to Get Off 06/08/66 Ten Little Indians 06/29/66 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 10/05/66 The Idol 10/26/66 The Bible 04/12/67 The Taming of the Shrew 07/19/67 A Guide for the Married Man 10/18/67 Two Weeks in September 10/25/67 Gone With the Wind 09/25/68 I’ll Never Forget What’s-‘Is-Name 10/02/68 Hot Millions 10/30/68 Finian’s Rainbow 02/05/69 The Shoes of the Fisherman 04/02/69 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 04/16/69 Mayerling 04/23/69 The Illustrated Man 05/14/69 Before Winter Comes 05/21/69 A Flea in Her Ear 05/28/69 Hard Contract 06/25/69 The Great Bank Robbery 07/23/69 The Gay Deceivers 08/27/69 Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe? 10/01/69 Justine 10/15/69 Camille 2000 11/05/69 Take the Money and Run 12/17/69 Goodbye, Mr. Chips

RSM3853 commented about Tower Theatre on Dec 29, 2012 at 2:01 pm

Movies that played at the Tower Theater in Houston, TX from 01/01/60 to 12/31/63. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The dates listed are the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/60 Porgy and Bess 02/17/60 House of Intrigue 02/24/60 Three Murderesses 03/02/60 The Third Voice 03/16/60 The Rack 03/23/60 The Moon is Blue 03/30/60 The Man with the Golden Arm 04/06/60 The Mating Time 04/13/60 Ulysses 04/20/60 Once More, With Feeling 04/27/60 Ben-Hur 10/26/60 The Alamo 03/29/61 Exodus 05/31/61 The Millionairess 06/07/61 Dentist in the Chair 06/21/61 Carry on Constable 07/12/61 La Dolce Vita 08/30/61 On the Double 09/13/61 Fanny 10/04/61 Man in the Moon 10/11/61 The Bridge 10/25/61 Double Bunk 11/01/61 The King and I 11/22/61 Blood and Roses 11/29/61 The Invasion Quartet 12/06/61 Raintree County 12/20/61 King of Kings 02/21/62 No Love for Johnnie 02/28/62 Two Women 03/07/62 The Hustler 03/14/62 Between Time and Eternity 03/21/62 Purple Noon 04/04/62 West Side Story 07/18/62 Jessica 08/01/62 Only Two Can Play 08/08/62 Mister Roberts 08/15/62 Bus Stop/The Seven Year Itch 08/22/62 That Touch of Mink 09/19/62 The Best of Enemies 09/26/62 Sayonara 10/03/62 I Like Money (Mr. Topaze) 10/10/62 El Cid 10/24/62 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 10/31/62 Father of the Bride 11/07/62 The Longest Day 02/27/63 Mutiny on the Bounty 05/15/63 Madame 05/22/63 Crooks Anonymous 05/29/63 The Mind Benders 06/05/63 An American in Paris 06/12/63 The Pied Piper of Hamelin 06/19/63 Auntie Mame 06/26/63 Cleopatra

RSM3853 commented about Gaylynn I & II on Dec 29, 2012 at 11:09 am

Movies which played at the Gaylynn Terrace from 12/18/68 to 12/31/75. 12/18/68 The Lion in Winter 07/02/69 Funny Girl 10/29/69 True Grit 11/05/69 The Graduate 11/12/69 The Royal Hunt of the Sun 12/24/69 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice 06/24/70 Darling Lili 08/12/70 The People Next Door 09/16/70 2001: A Space Odyssey 10/21/70 Sunflower 11/11/70 Dorian Gray 12/09/70 Doctor Zhivago 12/16/70 Z 12/23/70 There’s a Girl in My Soup 02/17/71 Ryan’s Daughter 06/23/71 Plaza Suite 09/08/71 The Lion in Winter 09/15/71 The Reincarnate 09/29/71 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 10/27/71 The African Elephant 11/03/71 Bless the Beasts and Children 11/10/71 The Anonymous Venetian 12/01/71 David Copperfield 12/08/71 Show Boat 12/22/71 Straw Dogs 03/22/71 Mary, Queen of Scots 06/28/72 Frenzy 08/16/72 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex 11/01/72 Savage Messiah 11/08/72 How the West Was Won 11/15/72 Play It As It Lays 12/20/72 Travels With My Aunt 01/31/73 Sounder 05/16/73 The Man from Deep River 05/23/73 Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing 06/06/73 Manson 06/20/73 Kung Fu—The Invisible Fist 08/29/73 Harry in Your Pocket 09/26/73 Jeremy 10/17/73 In the Devil’s Garden 11/14/73 The Gospel Road 11/21/73 Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams 12/19/73 Ash Wednesday 01/30/74 The Pyx 02/13/74 Crazy Joe 02/20/74 Fantastic Planet 02/27/74 Cries and Whispers 03/20/74 A Touch of Class 03/27/74 Mean Streets 04/10/74 The Conversation 05/15/74 The Triple Echo 05/22/74 Paul and Michelle 06/26/74 SPY*S 07/24/74 Uptown Saturday Night 09/04/74 Doctor Zhivago 09/25/74 Juggernaut 10/16/74 Gone With the Wind 11/13/74 Mixed Company 11/20/74 The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 12/18/74 Journey Back to Oz 12/25/74 Freebie and the Bean 03/26/75 Brannigan 04/16/75 Uptown Saturday Night 04/30/75 Rosebud 05/07/75 Aloha, Bobby and Rose 05/14/75 Dirty Harry/Magnum Force 05/21/75 Rancho Deluxe 05/28/75 Stavisky 06/04/75 A Boy and His Dog 06/11/75 Bug 06/25/75 The Wind and the Lion (no notes for films until 12/17/75 – I may have inadvertantly forgot to write “T” for Terrace in some of the Gaylynn I or II listings – it’s confusing reading my old library notes taken years ago, especially when the film opened in multiple situations) 12/17/75 One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest

RSM3853 commented about Gaylynn I & II on Dec 29, 2012 at 10:05 am

Movies that played at the Sharpstown/Gaylynn from 05/27/65 to 12/31/75. Research is from microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. Dates given are the Wednesday of the opening week. 05/26/65 Mirage 06/09/65 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (renamed Gaylynn week of 6/16/65) 06/23/65 Cinderella 06/30/65 Harlow 08/04/65 In Harm’s Way 08/18/65 The Greatest Story Ever Told 09/29/65 Cat Ballou 11/10/65 What’s New, Pussycat? 11/17/65 Von Ryan’s Express 11/24/65 Old Yeller 12/08/65 Lord Jim 12/22/65 My Fair Lady (pop prices) 02/02/66 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (pop prices) 03/30/66 Othello 04/06/66 Viva, Maria! 05/04/66 The King and I 05/25/66 The Ten Commandments 06/29/66 Khartoum 08/24/66 The Blue Max 11/16/66 Is Paris Burning? 01/25/67 The Sand Pebbles 07/12/67 El Dorado 08/23/67 Barefoot in the Park 10/11/67 The Happiest Millionaire 01/24/68 Custer of the West 02/28/68 Smashing Time 03/13/68 Half a Sixpence 04/10/68 The Scalphunters 05/29/68 The Graduate 07/17/68 Around the World in 80 Days 08/28/68 The Producers 09/25/68 Bandolero 10/02/68 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner 10/09/68 Doctor Faustus 10/16/68 The Fox 10/23/68 Funny Girl

(Second theater added – named Gaylynn Terrace – see following comment)

07/02/69 Krakatoa, East of Java 08/13/69 The Sound of Music 09/17/69 Cleopatra 10/01/69 Gone With the Wind 10/08/69 Camelot 10/22/69 Doctor Zhivago 10/29/69 Paint Your Wagon 03/11/70 Patton 10/14/70 Tora! Tora! Tora! 02/24/71 Wuthering Heights 04/07/71 Valdez is Coming 04/28/71 The Mephisto Waltz 05/26/71 When Eight Bells Toll 06/09/71 A Gunfight 06/25/71 Big Jake 08/04/71 Shootout 08/11/71 Fortune and Men’s Eyes 08/25/71 Walkabout 09/15/71 Death in Venice 10/06/71 The Touch 10/27/71 The Organization 11/10/71 The Greatest Story Ever Told 11/17/71 Joe Hill 12/08/71 San Francisco 12/15/71 Tora! Tora! Tora! 12/22/71 The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight 01/19/72 Cactus in the Snow 02/09/72 J. W. Coop 02/23/72 Sunday, Bloody Sunday 03/08/72 Nicholas and Alexandra 06/28/72 The Last of the Red Hot Lovers 08/02/72 Slaughterhouse-Five 11/01/72 Skyjacked/Kansas City Bomber 11/08/72 Thoroughly Modern Millie 11/29/72 Song of Norway 12/20/72 Brother of the Wind 01/17/73 Gone With the Wind 01/24/73 The Mechanic 02/07/73 Across 110th Street 02/21/73 Avanti 03/07/73 Brian’s Song 03/14/73 Lolly Madonna XXX 03/21/73 The Long Goodbye 04/04/73 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 04/18/73 Brother Sun, Sister Moon 06/13/73 Trader Horn 06/20/73 Scarecrow 06/27/73 Live and Let Die 08/01/73 Santee 08/15/73 State of Siege 09/12/73 So Sad About Gloria 09/19/73 Heavy Traffic 10/17/73 Nicholas and Alexandra 10/31/73 Electric Glide in Blue 11/14/73 Cops and Robbers 11/21/73 Tales That Witness Madness 11/28/73 Pulp 12/19/73 Sleeper 01/30/74 The Serpent (Night Flight to Moscow) 02/13/74 Under Milkwood 02/20/74 Quadroon 03/06/74 Fiddler on the Roof 03/13/74 Lovin' Molly 04/10/74 The Spikes Gang 05/08/74 Billy Two Hats 05/15/74 Sleeper/Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex 05/22/74 Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 07/17/74 Mr. Majestyk 08/14/74 Bank Shot 08/21/74 2001: A Space Odyssey 10/16/74 Harry and Tonto

(Theater twinned or second theater added – now named Gaylynn I and Gaylynn II – not sure which auditorium from here as films would switch around)

12/18/74 The Man With the Golden Gun 01/01/75 The Night Porter 02/12/75 Lenny 02/19/75 The Strongest Man in the World 03/19/75 The Prisoner of Second Avenue 05/21/75 Shark’s Treasure 06/04/75 The Land That Time Forgot 06/11/75 The Return of the Pink Panther 06/18/75 Race With the Devil 07/02/75 The Wilby Conspiracy 07/09/75 Framed 07/16/75 White Line Fever 07/23/75 Tidal Wave 07/30/75 Take a Hard Ride 08/06/75 The Devil’s Rain 08/13/75 The Towering Inferno 09/03/75 Smile 09/10/75 Funny Girl 09/24/75 Undercovers Hero 10/08/75 Hard Times 10/15/75 Let’s Do it Again 11/05/75 Blue Water, White Death 11/12/75 The Ultimate Warrior 11/19/75 The Night Caller 11/19/75 Seven Alone 12/03/75 Welcome to My Nightmare 12/10/75 Double Agent ‘73 12/17/75 Superbug 12/17/75 Hard Heads 12/24/75 Mysteries from Beyond Earth 12/24/75 Dog Day Afternoon

RSM3853 commented about Clear Lake Theatre on Dec 27, 2012 at 1:53 pm

This theater must have lasted longer than 1969, as I show “Diamonds are Forever” as the Christmas film there in 1971.

RSM3853 commented about Star Cinema Grill River Oaks on Dec 27, 2012 at 1:38 pm

First-run and major reissued movies that played at the River Oaks from 01/01/68 to 12/31/75. Research is from microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The date is the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/68 Reflections in a Golden Eye 01/17/68 Carmen, Baby 04/10/68 The Party 05/29/68 Inspector Clouseau 06/19/68 The Anniversary 07/10/68 Rosemary’s Baby 09/25/68 Petulia 10/09/68 Charlie Bubbles 10/16/68 I Love You, Alice B. Toklas 11/27/68 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 12/18/68 Bullitt 03/19/69 Charly 05/28/69 Baby Love 06/11/69 The First Time 06/25/69 The April Fools 08/27/69 Staircase 09/24/69 Last Summer 11/19/69 All the Loving Couples 12/24/69 Cactus Flower 03/25/70 They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? 05/06/70 The Molly Maguires 05/13/70 The Laughing Woman 05/27/70 Fantasia 06/17/70 The Boys in the Band 07/29/70 The Sicilian Clan 08/05/70 Start the Revolution Without Me 08/26/70 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 09/16/70 The Virgin and the Gypsy 09/23/70 Something for Everyone 09/30/70 Joe 12/16/70 South Pacific 12/23/70 The Aristocats 01/27/71 I Never Sang for My Father 02/10/71 Little Big Man 06/09/71 Willard 07/14/71 Scandalous John 09/08/71 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 09/22/71 The Seven Minutes 10/06/71 The Late Liz 10/13/71 Joy in the Morning 10/27/71 Some of My Best Friends Are… 11/03/71 Johnny Got His Gun 11/10/71 Carry on Camping 11/24/71 House of Wax 12/08/71 Desperate Characters 12/15/71 The Lion in Winter 12/22/71 Star-Spangled Girl 01/12/72 Romeo and Juliet (ballet) 01/19/72 Toklat 01/26/72 Black Beauty/Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 02/02/72 The Cross and the Switchblade 02/09/72 Pocket Money 03/22/72 Long Ago, Tomorrow 03/29/72 Dealing 04/12/72 Al Capone 04/19/72 The Concert for Bangladesh 05/24/72 Suburban Wives 06/21/72 The War Between Men and Women 08/02/72 Fillmore 08/16/72 Together 08/23/72 Relations 08/30/72 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis/Z 09/06/72 One Brief Summer 09/13/72 The Minx/The Female 09/20/72 The Affair 09/27/72 Five Easy Pieces/Getting Straight 10/04/72 Mary in the Morning 10/11/72 Funny Girl 11/15/72 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever 11/22/72 They Only Kill Their Masters 12/06/72 The Mephisto Waltz 12/20/72 The King of Marvin Gardens 01/24/73 Death of a Jew 01/31/73 The Assassination of Trotsky 02/07/73 Last Summer 02/21/73 Child’s Play 02/28/73 Toys are Not for Children 03/07/73 Baxter 03/14/73 The First Time 03/21/73 What the Peeper Saw 03/28/73 Two People 04/11/73 Cesar and Rosalie 04/18/73 Cold Turkey 04/25/73 Hail 05/02/73 The Boy Next Door (To Find a Man) 05/09/73 A Clockwork Orange 05/16/73 Kid Blue 06/13/73 Ten from Your Show of Shows 06/20/73 Travels with My Aunt 06/27/73 The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing 07/25/73 O Lucky Man 09/05/73 if…. 09/12/73 Love Minus One 09/19/73 Henry VIII and His Six Wives 09/26/73 Together for Days 10/03/73 No Go 10/17/73 Charley Varrick 12/05/73 The Other 12/19/73 The Laughing Policeman 01/30/74 Billy Jack 02/20/74 Siddhartha 03/20/74 American Jam 03/27/74 The Devils 04/??/74 The Sting 07/24/74 Uptown Saturday Night 09/18/74 The Pedestrian 10/02/74 Le Sex Shop 10/23/74 El Topo 11/06/74 Impulse 11/13/74 The Trial of Billy Jack 12/18/74 The Front Page 03/05/75 The Owl and the Pussycat 03/26/75 Tommy 07/16/75 The Happy Hooker 09/10/75 Yessongs 09/24/75 The London Rock & Roll Show 10/01/75 The Sensuous Sicilian 10/08/75 Gigi 10/15/75 Let’s Do It Again 12/24/75 Gone With the Wind

RSM3853 commented about Star Cinema Grill River Oaks on Dec 27, 2012 at 11:58 am

First-run and major reissued movies that played at the River Oaks from 01/01/64 to 12/31/67. Research is from microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The date is the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/64 Ladies Who Do 01/08/64 Billy Liar 01/15/64 Murder at the Gallop 01/29/64 The Playgirl and the War Minister 02/05/64 Tiara Tahiti 02/12/64 Tom Jones 07/29/64 The World of Henry Orient 09/16/64 Nothing But the Best 09/30/64 To Bed…or Not to Bed 10/14/64 The Living Desert 10/21/64 White Wilderness 10/28/64 The African Lion 11/04/64 Perri 11/11/64 The Jungle Cat 11/18/64 The Vanishing Prairie 11/25/64 Lilith 12/09/64 The Night of the Iguana 12/23/64 Kiss Me, Stupid 02/10/65 The Pumpkin Eater 03/17/65 The Finest Hours 03/24/65 (Alec Guinness Film Festival) 03/31/65 La Bonne Soupe 04/07/65 The Train 06/16/65 The Battle of the Villa Fiorita 06/30/65 Joy in the Morning 07/21/65 The Third Day 08/18/65 Morituri 09/22/65 The Collector 10/20/65 Malamondo 10/27/65 The Knack 11/17/65 You Must Be Joking 11/24/65 Old Yeller/Arizona Raiders 12/01/65 Breakfast at Tiffany’s/Sabrina 12/15/65 The World of Henry Orient/Your Past is Showing 12/22/65 That Darn Cat 03/16/66 The Ugly Dachshund 05/04/66 A Thousand Clowns 06/29/66 Lt. Robin Crusoe, USN/Run, Appaloosa, Run 09/14/66 The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming 10/12/66 The Pad (and How to Use It) 10/26/66 The Poppy is Also a Flower 11/09/66 The Appaloosa 12/07/66 Hotel Paradiso 12/21/66 Any Wednesday 01/25/67 The Spy with a Cold Nose 02/08/67 A Man and a Woman 03/22/67 The Night of the Generals 04/19/67 A Countess from Hong Kong 05/10/67 The Defector 05/17/67 Eric Soya’s 17 05/31/67 You’re a Big Boy Now 06/14/67 The Honey Pot 07/26/67 The Family Way 09/27/67 Fathom 10/04/67 The Girl and the General 10/18/67 Barefoot in the Park 10/25/67 Ulysses 11/08/67 Reflections in a Golden Eye

RSM3853 commented about Star Cinema Grill River Oaks on Dec 27, 2012 at 11:32 am

First-run and major reissued movies that played at the River Oaks from 01/01/60 to 12/31/63. Research is from microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The date is the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/60 Pillow Talk 02/10/60 The Mouse That Roared 03/16/60 The Last Angry Man 03/30/60 Babette Goes to War 04/13/60 Our Man in Havana 05/18/60 Black Orpheus 05/25/60 Rosemary 06/08/60 The Snow Queen 06/22/60 The Battle of the Sexes 07/06/60 Carry on Nurse 08/24/60 The 39 Steps 09/07/60 A Lesson in Love 09/21/60 I’m All Right, Jack 10/12/60 Carry on Sergeant 10/26/60 School for Scoundrels 11/02/60 Ten Who Dared 11/09/60 The Man in the Cocked Hat 11/16/60 Inherit the Wind 12/14/60 Lonelyhearts 12/21/60 Swiss Family Robinson 03/01/61 101 Dalmatians 04/19/61 The Absent-Minded Professor 06/28/61 The Parent Trap 09/20/61 Romanoff and Juliet 10/18/61 Greyfriar’s Bobby 11/15/61 Dumbo 12/20/61 Babes in Toyland 02/14/62 Watch Your Stern 02/21/62 Murder, She Said 02/28/62 Whistle Down the Wind 03/14/62 Doctor in Love 03/28/62 Light in the Piazza 04/11/62 A View from the Bridge 04/18/62 Lover Come Back 06/13/62 Five Finger Exercise 06/27/62 Bon Voyage 08/22/62 Stowaway in the Sky 08/29/62 A Matter of WHO 09/12/62 The Spiral Road 10/10/62 Carry on Teacher 10/24/62 No Place Like Homicide 10/31/60 A Coming Out Party 11/14/62 Gigot 12/12/62 Two Plus Two Make Six 12/19/62 Barabbas 01/16/63 Billy Budd 02/06/63 A Kind of Loving 02/13/63 Term of Trial 02/20/63 Divorce, Italian Style 03/13/63 David and Lisa 04/03/63 Freud 04/17/63 No Exit 05/01/63 To Kill a Mockingbird 05/29/63 Love and Larceny 06/05/63 Long Day’s Journey Into Night 06/26/63 Get On With It 07/17/63 The L-Shaped Room 08/21/63 Women of the World 09/11/63 Heaven’s Above 09/18/63 8 ½ 10/09/63 Irma La Douce 11/20/63 The Leopard 12/04/63 Carry on Regardless 12/11/63 3 Fables of Love 12/18/63 Winter Light 12/25/63 Ladies Who Do

RSM3853 commented about Windsor Theatre on Dec 27, 2012 at 10:54 am

Movies that played at the Windsor Theater in Houston Texas from 12/19/62 to 12/31/75. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The dates are the Wednesday of the opening week. 12/19/62 The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm 03/13/63 How the West Was Won 11/06/63 Under the Yum Yum Tree 12/18/63 It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 04/29/64 Becket 07/22/64 Circus World 10/14/64 Three Penny Opera 10/21/64 Giant 10/28/64 The World of Henry Orient 11/04/64 Oklahoma 11/11/64 Pajama Party 11/18/64 Julius Caesar 12/02/64 Topkapi 12/23/64 Cheyenne Autumn 03/17/65 The Greatest Story Ever Told 06/30/65 The Hallelujah Trail 09/22/65 Bambole 10/06/65 The Pawnbroker 11/03/65 Repulsion 11/17/65 The Redeemer 12/01/65 Red Line 7000 12/08/65 Backfire 12/15/65 Battle of the Bulge 03/30/66 Doctor Zhivago 02/01/67 Grand Prix 09/20/67 The Sound of Music 11/08/67 Far from the Madding Crowd 02/14/68 Billion Dollar Brain 03/06/68 Doctor Zhivago 04/10/68 2001: A Space Odyssey 11/13/68 Ice Station Zebra 03/26/69 Oliver! 11/12/69 The Gypsy Moths 12/17/69 Marooned 03/18/70 Anne of the Thousand Days 06/24/70 Too Late the Hero 08/05/70 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever 11/11/70 Julius Caesar (AIP) 12/23/70 Song of Norway 03/17/71 My Fair Lady 04/28/71 THX 1138 05/26/71 Blue Water, White Death 06/16/71 The Abominable Dr. Phibes 06/30/71 The Grissom Gang 07/14/71 The Light at the Edge of the World 08/04/71 The Panic in Needle Park 08/18/71 Windjammer 09/01/71 Unman, Wittering, and Zigo 09/22/71 Doctor Zhivago 10/13/71 Kotch 12/22/71 The Go-Between 02/02/72 Sacco and Vanzetti 02/16/72 Cabaret 06/28/72 Portnoy’s Complaint 10/04/72 Deliverance 12/20/72 Jeremiah Johnson 02/21/73 Steelyard Blues 03/28/73 Slither 04/18/73 Scorpio 05/09/73 Lady Caroline Lamb 05/30/73 Fiddler on the Roof (pop prices) 06/06/73 This is Cinerama 09/05/73 Ludwig 09/19/73 Slither 09/26/73 A Warm December 10/03/73 Hit! 10/17/73 The Outside Man 10/31/73 Massacre in Rome 11/21/73 Jimi Hendrix 12/19/73 The Paper Chase 02/20/74 Alfredo, Alfredo 03/13/74 Man of La Mancha (pop prices) 03/20/74 Where the Lilies Bloom 05/08/74 Kazablan 05/22/74 Huckleberry Finn 06/12/74 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex/Bananas 06/19/74 Macon County Line 07/03/74 Big Bad Mama 07/10/74 The Terminal Man 07/17/74 That’s Entertainment 12/25/74 The Little Prince 01/22/75 The Nickel Ride 01/29/75 Pardon My Blooper 02/12/75 Mr. Ricco 02/19/75 Child Under a Leaf 02/26/75 Claudine/Harry and Tonto 03/05/75 Report to the Commissioner 03/12/75 Gone With the Wind 03/19/75 The Great Waldo Pepper 06/25/75 Rollerball 10/01/75 The Master Gunfighter 10/15/75 The Giant Spider Invasion 10/22/75 Whiffs 10/29/75 The Ark of Noah 11/19/75 Weed 11/26/75 2001: A Space Odyssey 12/17/75 The Killer Elite. My research stops here, since I have done 34+ big cities and had to pick a cutoff date…if anyone with access to Houston microfilms (closest to me are in State College, PA) and time wants to post further years, I’m sure we all would enjoy and appreciate it. Check other Houston theaters for movie openings from 1960-75 as I am able to post the data.

RSM3853 commented about Metropolitan Theatre on Dec 27, 2012 at 9:50 am

Movies that played at the Metropolitan Theater in Houston, TX from 1/1/72 to its closing. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The dates are the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/72 Dirty Harry 02/09/72 J. W. Coop 02/16/72 Soul Soldier 03/08/72 Boot Hill 03/15/72 The Brazen Women of Balzac 03/22/72 The School Girls/Celebration at Big Sur 03/29/72 Cool Breeze 04/12/72 Together 05/03/72 Georgia, Georgia 05/17/72 The Proud and the Damned/Day of the Wolves 05/24/72 The Legend of Nigger Charley 06/28/72 Shaft’s Big Score 08/02/72 Joe Kidd 08/16/72 Come Back, Charleston Blue 09/20/72 Super Fly 10/25/72 Hammer 11/01/72 The Godfather 11/15/72 Trouble Man 12/20/72 Hit Man My research shows no more first-run openings or reissues at the Metropolitan. It goes up through 12/31/75. The theater, like most big downtown movie palaces fell victim to real estate ventures and changing exhibition patterns. In the 60s, the Metropolitan pretty much changed features weekly, unless a film was a smash hit. It was a home for Jerry Lewis comedies, Elvis musicals, and westerns of all stripes. Almost all major films played first in Houston at the Metropolitan, the Majestic, and Loew’s State. By the mid-60s they had their openings at new theaters built by shopping malls and as the 60s became the early 70s the old downtown theaters had to resort to showing soft-core pornography, horror films, and blaxsploitation pictures before they were razed for new skyscrapers.

RSM3853 commented about Metropolitan Theatre on Dec 27, 2012 at 9:31 am

Movies that played at the Metropolitan Theater in Houston, TX from 1/1/69 to 12/31/71. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The dates are the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/69 Candy 02/12/69 The Brotherhood 02/19/69 Dracula Has Risen from the Grave 02/26/69 The Sergeant 03/12/69 The Charge of the Light Brigade 03/19/69 The Night of the Following Day 04/09/69 Hell in the Pacific 04/23/69 The Devil’s 8 04/30/69 The Big Bounce 05/07/68 Up Tight 05/14/69 House of Cards 05/21/68 Death of a Gunfighter 05/28/69 Where It’s At 06/04/69 The Longest Day 06/18/69 True Grit 08/20/68 Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice? 09/10/69 Hell’s Angels ‘69 09/17/69 Succubus 10/01/69 Vixen 10/22/69 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 12/24/69 Topaz 01/28/70 The Dunwich Horror 02/11/70 The Curious Female 02/18/70 The Last of the Mobile Hotshots 02/25/70 The Only Game in Town 03/11/70 The Love Doctors 03/18/70 The Looking Glass War 03/25/70 The Adventurers 05/20/70 The Liberation of L. B. Jones 06/10/70 The Grasshopper 07/01/70 Chisum 08/12/70 Macho Callahan 08/26/70 El Condor 09/09/70 Watermelon Man 09/23/70 The Professionals/In Cold Blood 09/30/70 Walk the Walk 10/07/70 Cry of the Banshee/The Black Torment 10/14/70 Vixen/Cherry, Harry & Raquel/Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers 10/21/70 Whirlpool 10/28/70 Witchcraft '70/Cult of the Damned (Angel, Angel, Down We Go) 11/04/70 Eugenie 11/11/70 Blood Mania/The Blood of Dracula’s Castle 11/18/70 Flap 12/02/70 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 12/09/70 The 5-Man Army/…tick…tick…tick… 12/16/70 Eye of the Cat/Curse of Frankenstein 12/23/70 The Great White Hope 02/03/71 3 in the Cellar/Three in the Attic 02/10/71 Cotton Comes to Harlem/They Call Me Mister Tibbs 02/17/71 Horror of Frankenstein/Scars of Dracula 02/24/71 The Lost Man/The Split 03/03/71 The Stewardesses 05/26/71 The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun/The Boston Strangler 06/02/71 Escape from the Planet of the Apes 06/23/71 Wild Rovers 07/14/71 Klute 07/28/71 The Omega Man 08/11/71 Dracula, Prince of Darkness/Plague of the Zombies 08/18/71 Soul to Soul 09/01/71 Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song 09/29/71 Black Jesus 10/06/71 Nana 10/13/71 Daddy, Darling 10/20/71 How to Succeed with Sex 10/27/71 Play Misty for Me 11/10/71 The Bus is Coming 11/17/71 Foursome 11/24/71 Man in the Wilderness 12/15/71 Sweet Georgia 12/22/71 Dirty Harry

RSM3853 commented about Metropolitan Theatre on Dec 27, 2012 at 8:56 am

Movies that played at the Metropolitan Theater in Houston, TX from 1/1/66 to 12/31/68. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The dates are the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/66 Never Too Late 01/05/66 Tom Jones/Irma La Douce 01/19/66 The Spy With My Face 02/02/66 The Heroes of Telemark 02/16/66 Inside Daisy Clover 03/02/66 Moment to Moment 03/16/66 The Chase 04/06/66 The Silencers 05/11/66 The Night of the Grizzly 05/18/66 Cleopatra 05/25/66 Weekend at Dunkirk 06/01/66 Tarzan & the Valley of Gold/Frankenstein Conquers the World 06/08/66 Around the World Under the Sea 06/15/66 Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! 07/20/66 What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? 08/03/66 Lost Command 08/10/66 Torn Curtain 09/21/66 Marco the Magnificent 09/28/66 Fantastic Voyage 10/26/66 Kaleidoscope 11/02/66 Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round 11/09/66 Way Way Out 11/16/66 The Professionals 12/21/66 Funeral in Berlin 01/11/67 Arrivederci, Baby 01/18/67 Where the Bullets Fly 01/25/67 Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die 02/01/67 A Covenant with Death 02/08/67 The Quiller Memorandum 02/15/67 Tobruk 03/08/67 The Alamo 03/22/67 Hotel 04/19/67 The Corrupt Ones 04/26/67 Casino Royale 05/31/67 Hurry Sundown 06/14/67 Caprice 06/28/67 Up the Down Staircase 07/19/67 Divorce, American Style 08/09/67 The Naked Runner 08/23/67 Rough Night in Jericho 10/04/67 The Bobo 10/18/67 The Last Challenge 10/25/67 Games 11/01/67 Emily 11/08/67 Cool Hand Luke 12/20/67 The Ambushers 01/24/68 Firecreek 02/07/68 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner 04/03/68 Sergeant Ryker 04/17/68 The Secret War of Harry Frigg 05/08/68 A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die 05/22/68 The Private Navy of Sergeant O'Farrell 06/05/68 No Way to Treat a Lady 07/03/68 Boom 07/17/68 Villa Rides 07/31/68 Wild in the Streets 08/14/68 Five Card Stud 09/18/68 The Big Gundown 09/25/68 The Pink Jungle/In Enemy Country 10/02/68 Any Gun Can Play 10/09/68 The Young Animals (Born Wild) 10/16/68 Shenandoah/The War Wagon 10/23/68 Bonnie and Clyde/Wait Until Dark 10/30/68 The Boston Strangler 11/27/68 The Lady in Cement 12/18/68 Candy

RSM3853 commented about Metropolitan Theatre on Dec 27, 2012 at 8:28 am

Movies that played at the Metropolitan Theater in Houston, TX from 1/1/63 to 12/31/65. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The dates are the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/63 Gypsy 02/06/63 The Lion 02/20/63 A Girl Named Tamiko 02/27/63 To Kill a Mockingbird 04/03/63 The Day of the Triffids 04/10/63 Critic’s Choice 04/17/63 Nine Hours to Rama 04/24/63 The Hook 05/01/63 The Yellow Canary 05/08/63 Papa’s Delicate Condition 05/15/63 Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory/Corridors of Blood 05/22/63 Paranoiac 05/29/63 Operation Bikini/Marco Polo 06/05/63 The Nutty Professor 06/26/63 Tammy and the Doctor 07/10/63 Spencer’s Mountain 07/31/63 Bye Bye Birdie 08/21/63 Gidget Goes to Rome 08/28/63 Come Blow Your Horn 09/18/63 A New Kind of Love 10/02/63 The Haunting 10/09/63 A Ticklish Affair 10/16/63 Cry of Battle 10/23/63 Lawrence of Arabia (pop prices) 10/30/63 Kiss of the Vampire/The Sword of Lancelot 11/06/63 Take Her, She’s Mine 11/27/63 Fun in Acapulco 12/04/63 Palm Springs Weekend 12/18/63 Who’s Minding the Store? 01/01/64 Move Over, Darling 02/05/64 Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed? 02/12/64 All the Way Home 02/19/64 The Victors 03/04/64 Man in the Middle 03/11/64 Seven Days in May 04/01/64 The Incredible Mr. Limpet 04/08/64 America, America 04/15/64 Dark Purpose 04/22/64 Paris When it Sizzles 05/06/64 The Strangler/The Secret Door 05/13/64 Some Like it Hot/Irma La Douce 05/20/64 Goliath & the Vampires/Erik the Conqueror 05/27/64 A Distant Trumpet 06/03/64 Viva Las Vegas 06/17/64 The Patsy 06/24/64 Robin and the Seven Hoods 07/08/64 Bedtime Story 07/15/64 Ensign Pulver 07/29/64 Good Neighbor Sam 08/19/64 A Hard Day’s Night 09/02/64 The New Interns 09/16/64 633 Squadron 09/23/64 Kisses for My President 09/30/64 The Secret Invasion 10/07/64 Fate is the Hunter 10/14/64 Of Human Bondage 10/28/64 Invitation to a Gunfighter 11/04/64 Fail-Safe 11/18/64 Quo Vadis 11/25/64 Kitten with a Whip 12/02/64 The Young Lovers 12/09/64 Station Six-Sahara 12/16/64 Black Sabbath/Masque of the Red Death 12/23/64 Goldfinger 03/17/65 Sylvia 03/24/65 Strange Bedfellows 04/07/65 Dear Heart 04/14/65 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home 04/28/65 Love Has Many Faces 05/05/65 Dr. No/From Russia, With Love 06/09/65 Tickle Me 06/16/65 Genghis Khan 06/30/65 In Harm’s Way 07/21/65 The Glory Guys 07/28/65 The Art of Love 08/18/65 Cat Ballou 09/29/65 I Saw What You Did 10/06/65 Marriage on the Rocks 10/27/65 Bunny Lake is Missing 11/10/65 The Hill 11/17/65 King Rat 11/24/65 The War Lord 12/15/65 Gypsy/The Music Man 12/22/65 Never Too Late

RSM3853 commented about Metropolitan Theatre on Dec 27, 2012 at 8:02 am

Movies that played at the Metropolitan Theater in Houston, TX from 1/1/60 to 12/31/62. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The dates are the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/60 Journey to the Center of the Earth 01/13/60 Cash McCall 01/20/60 The Country Girl/The Bridges at Toko-Ri 01/27/60 Seven Thieves 02/03/60 The Purple Gang/Atomic Submarine 02/10/60 The Bramble Bush 02/24/60 The Last Voyage 03/02/60 Toby Tyler 03/09/60 Who Was That Lady? 03/23/60 The Angry Red Planet 03/30/60 Solomon and Sheba 04/06/60 Heller in Pink Tights/Circus Stars 04/13/60 Tall Story 04/27/60 Because They’re Young 05/04/60 Kidnapped/Dumbo 05/11/60 Five Branded Women 05/18/60 Killers of Kilimanjaro 05/25/60 Sergeant Rutledge 06/01/60 Hannibal 06/08/60 The Brides of Dracula/The Leech Woman 06/15/60 The Sign of Zorro 06/22/60 Pay or Die 06/29/60 The Rat Race 07/13/60 Pollyanna 07/20/60 Hercules Unchained 07/27/60 The Lost World 08/03/60 Psycho 08/31/60 Oceans 11 09/14/60 The Fall of the House of Usher 09/21/60 High Time 09/28/60 The Time Machine 10/05/60 The Crowded Sky 10/12/60 13 Ghosts/The Electronic Monster 10/19/60 Thunder in Carolina 11/02/60 Sunrise at Campobello 11/09/60 A Breath of Scandal 11/16/60 Girl of the Night 11/23/60 North to Alaska 12/14/60 Cinderfella 12/28/60 Flaming Star 01/04/61 The Marriage-Go-Round 01/11/61 The Sundowners 01/25/61 Foxhole in Cairo/Blueprint for Robbery 02/01/61 Gold of the Seven Saints 02/08/61 The Wackiest Ship in the Army 02/22/61 A Fever in the Blood 03/01/61 Cry for Happy 03/08/61 Black Sunday 03/22/61 Sanctuary 03/29/61 All Hands on Deck 04/05/61 All in a Night’s Work 04/19/61 The Apartment/Elmer Gantry 04/26/61 The Alamo (pop prices) 05/10/61 Angel Baby 05/17/61 Mein Kamph 05/31/61 The Ladies Man 06/14/61 Gidget Goes Hawaiian 06/28/61 Parrish 07/19/61 Fanny 08/09/61 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea 08/16/61 Homicidal 08/30/61 The Pit and the Pendulum 09/13/61 Curse of the Werewolf/Shadow of the Cat 09/20/61 Armored Command 09/27/61 Claudelle Inglish 10/04/61 Seven Women from Hell 10/11/61 Back Street 10/25/61 The Devil at 4 O'Clock 11/08/61 The Second Time Around 11/22/61 Susan Slade 12/13/61 The Errand Boy 12/27/61 The Comancheros 01/24/62 Sail a Crooked Ship 01/31/62 The George Raft Story 02/07/62 Tender is the Night 02/14/62 A Majority of One 02/21/62 Guns of the Black Witch/Lost Battalion 02/28/62 Summer and Smoke 03/07/62 Walk on the Wild Side 03/28/62 Satan Never Sleeps 04/04/62 Premature Burial 04/11/62 The Day the Earth Caught Fire 04/18/62 Rome Adventure 05/02/62 Experiment in Terror 05/16/62 The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus/The Manster 05/23/62 Escape from Zahrain 05/30/62 The Last of the Vikings 06/06/62 The Cabinet of Caligari 06/13/62 Reprive (Convicts 4) 06/20/62 Advise and Consent 07/04/62 Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation 07/18/62 My Geisha 07/25/62 The Spiral Road 08/15/62 The Notorious Landlady 08/29/62 Kid Galahad 09/12/62 The Interns 10/03/62 Guns of the Darkness/The Story of the Count of Monte Cristo 10/10/62 White Slave Ship/Prisoner in the Iron Mask 10/17/62 The Pigeon That Took Rome 10/24/62 If a Man Answers 11/14/62 Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 12/12/62 First Spaceship on Venus/Varan, the Unbelievable 12/19/62 Gypsy

RSM3853 commented about Majestic Theatre on Dec 26, 2012 at 11:02 am

Movies which played at the Majestic Theater in Houston, TX from 1/1/69 to 12/31/71. Research from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The date given is the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/69 Hellfighters 02/05/69 Pendulum 02/19/69 Angel in My Pocket 03/05/69 Secret Ceremony 04/02/69 100 Rifles 04/23/69 Uncle Tom’s Cabin 04/30/69 They Came to Rob Las Vegas 05/07/69 The Sweet Body of Deborah 05/14/69 A Fistful of Dollars/For a Few Dollars More 05/28/69 How to Commit Marriage 06/11/69 Once Upon a Time in the West 06/25/69 Mackenna’s Gold 07/16/69 The Lost Man 08/06/69 Stiletto 08/20/69 Eye of the Cat 08/27/69 Death Rides a Horse 09/10/69 3 into 2 Won’t Go 09/17/69 The Learning Tree 09/24/69 Some Kind of a Nut 10/01/69 Paranoia 10/08/69 The Good Guys and the Bad Guys 10/22/69 Inga 11/05/69 de Sade 11/19/69 Fanny Hill 12/17/69 Naked as the Wind from the Sea 12/24/69 The Arrangement 02/18/70 Tell Them Willie Boy is Here 03/11/70 The Lawyer 03/25/70 Bloody Mama 04/08/70 Sweden, Heaven, and Hell 04/15/70 The Honeymoon Killers 04/22/70 Female Animal 04/29/70 Scream and Scream Again 05/06/70 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly/Hang ‘Em High 05/13/70 Barquero 05/27/70 The Losers 06/10/70 Beneath the Planet of the Apes 07/08/70 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 07/29/70 Kelly’s Heroes 08/26/70 Soldier Blue 09/16/70 The McMasters 09/23/70 Darker than Amber 10/07/70 Monte Walsh 10/21/70 Hotel 10/28/70 The Student Nurses 11/04/70 Colossus—The Forbin Project 11/11/70 Machine Gun McCain 11/18/70 Dirty Dingus Magee 12/09/70 Rabbit, Run 12/16/70 Eva 12/23/70 There Was a Crooked Man… 01/20/71 Death Rides a Horse/Barquero/Sabata 01/27/71 Perfect Friday 02/03/71 The Swimming Pool/Monique 02/10/71 Her & She & Him 02/17/71 The Battle of Neretva 02/24/71 Patton 03/10/71 The Last Grenade/Ali-Frazier Fight 03/17/71 The Projectionist 03/24/71 Get Carter/Kenner 03/31/71 Madron 04/07/71 Brother John 04/14/71 Sudden Terror/The Grasshopper 04/21/71 War Between Planets 04/28/71 The Night Visitor 05/05/71 The Left-Handed Gun 05/12/71 The House That Dripped Blood 05/19/71 The Racing Scene 05/26/71 Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die 06/09/71 Relations 06/16/71 Fanny Hill/Inga 06/23/71 Big Jake 07/07/71 Shaft 08/11/71 The Last Run 08/18/71 Night of Dark Shadows 08/25/71 The Todd Killings 09/01/71 Evel Knievel 09/15/71 Two-Lane Blacktop 09/22/71 The Clay Pigeon no listings after this – theater closed???

RSM3853 commented about Majestic Theatre on Dec 26, 2012 at 10:26 am

Movies which played at the Majestic Theater in Houston, TX from 1/1/66 to 12/31/68. Research from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The date given is the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/66 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 01/26/66 Our Man Flint 02/16/66 The Oscar 03/02/66 Judith 03/16/66 Made in Paris 03/30/66 The Flight of the Phoenix 04/20/66 Ride Beyond Vengeance 05/04/66 A Man Could Get Killed 05/18/66 The Naked Prey 05/25/66 The Last of the Secret Agents 06/01/66 Hold On! 06/08/66 The Dirty Game 06/15/66 Stagecoach 07/20/66 Modesty Blaise 08/03/66 Assault on a Queen 08/24/66 How to Steal a Million 09/21/66 Ambush Bay 09/28/66 One Spy Too Many 10/05/66 Mister Buddwing 10/12/66 Alvarez Kelly 10/26/66 Texas Across the River 11/23/66 Spinout 12/07/66 Rage 12/21/66 Murderers Row 01/25/67 The Reluctant Astronaut (World Premiere) 02/08/67 The Sound of Music (pop prices) 03/22/67 Doctor, You’ve Got to Be Kidding! 04/12/67 Deadlier Than the Male 04/19/67 One Million Years, B. C. 05/03/67 The Deadly Affair 05/10/67 The Great Escape 05/24/67 The Busy Body 05/31/67 Thoroughly Modern Millie 09/20/67 The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre 09/27/67 The Flim-Flam Man 10/04/67 Point Blank 11/15/67 The Long Duel 11/22/67 Rosie! 12/06/67 Jack of Diamonds 12/13/67 Paris Blues 12/20/67 The President’s Analyst 01/17/68 The Penthouse 01/24/68 The Incident 01/31/68 Bonnie and Clyde 02/21/68 The Ballad of Josie 02/28/68 P. J. 03/13/68 In Cold Blood 04/10/68 Planet of the Apes 05/22/68 The Shakiest Gun in the West 05/29/68 Yours, Mine, and Ours 06/19/68 Bandolero 07/24/68 Dark of the Sun 08/07/68 Anzio 08/21/68 The Hell with Heroes 08/28/68 Salt and Pepper 09/11/68 Hammerhead 09/18/68 Deadfall 09/25/68 A Lovely Way to Die 10/02/68 Pretty Poison 10/09/68 Duffy 10/23/68 If He Hollers, Let Him Go 11/06/68 A Twist of Sand 11/13/68 Killers 3 11/20/68 Coogan’s Bluff 12/18/68 Hellfighters

RSM3853 commented about Majestic Theatre on Dec 26, 2012 at 10:02 am

Movies which played at the Majestic Theater in Houston, TX from 1/1/63 to 12/31/65. Research from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The date given is the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/63 Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World 01/09/63 Six Black Horses/Night Creatures 01/16/63 Who’s Got the Action 01/30/63 Sodom and Gomorrah 02/13/63 Diamond Head 03/06/63 The Days of Wine and Roses 03/27/63 Love is a Ball 04/10/63 It Happened at the World’s Fair 04/17/63 My Six Loves 05/01/63 The Ugly American 05/15/63 Showdown/Mystery Submarine 05/22/63 Island of Love 05/29/63 Hud 06/26/63 The Stripper 07/03/63 Donovan’s Reef 07/17/63 55 Days at Peking 07/31/63 The Thrill of It All 08/28/63 PT 109 09/11/63 For Love or Money 09/18/63 Toys in the Attic 09/25/63 The Condemned of Altona 10/02/63 Rampage 10/09/63 Wives and Lovers 10/16/63 The Running Man 10/23/63 Shock Corridor 10/30/63 Mary, Mary 11/13/63 McLintock 12/18/63 Four for Texas 01/08/64 Strait-Jacket 01/29/64 Soldier in the Rain 02/05/64 Love with the Proper Stranger 02/19/64 Dead Ringer 02/26/64 Man’s Favorite Sport 03/11/64 Kings of the Sun 03/18/64 One Man’s Way 03/25/64 Captain Newman, MD 04/15/64 Shock Treatment 04/22/64 Comedy of Terrors 04/29/64 FBI Code 98/The Man from Galveston 05/06/64 Operation Petticoat/Pillow Talk 05/13/64 From Russia, With Love 06/10/64 Wild and Wonderful 06/17/64 For Those Who Think Young 06/24/64 The Carpetbaggers 07/29/64 What a Way to Go! 08/19/64 Marnie 09/09/64 The Killers 09/16/64 I’d Rather Be Rich 09/30/64 The Visit 10/07/64 A House is Not a Home 10/14/64 Where Love Has Gone 10/21/64 Woman of Straw 10/28/64 Rio Conchos 11/04/64 Youngblood Hawke 11/18/64 Goodbye, Charlie 12/16/64 Joy House 12/23/64 Sex and the Single Girl 01/20/65 The Night Walker 02/03/65 The Pleasure Seekers 02/10/65 Baby, the Rain Must Fall 02/17/65 Dear Brigitte 02/24/65 The Rounders 03/17/65 None But the Brave 03/24/65 Hush, Hush…Sweet Charlotte 04/14/65 Major Dundee 04/21/65 Bus Riley’s Back in Town 04/28/65 Young Dillinger 05/05/65 Marriage, Italian Style 05/12/65 The Fool Killer 05/19/65 Ferry Cross the Mersey 05/26/65 Die! Die! My Darling! 06/02/65 Shenandoah 07/21/65 The Sons of Katie Elder 08/25/65 A Very Special Favor 09/15/65 Up from the Beach 09/22/65 The Reward 09/29/65 Ghidrah—The Three-Headed Monster 10/06/65 That Funny Feeling 10/13/65 Ship of Fools 10/27/65 The Ipcress File 11/24/65 The Nanny 12/08/65 The Bedford Incident 12/15/65 Living it Up/Pardners 12/22/65 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

RSM3853 commented about Majestic Theatre on Dec 26, 2012 at 9:36 am

Movies which played at the Majestic Theater in Houston, TX from 1/1/60 to 12/31/62. Research from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The date given is the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/60 The Miracle 01/06/60 The Rookie 01/13/60 The Gene Krupa Story 01/20/60 The Story on Page One 01/27/60 Suddenly, Last Summer 02/17/60 Jack the Ripper 02/24/60 Once More, With Feeling 03/02/60 Guns of the Timberland 03/09/60 A Dog of Flanders 03/16/60 Samson and Delilah 03/23/60 Sink the Bismarck 03/30/60 The Glenn Miller Story 04/06/60 Masters of the Congo Jungle 04/13/60 Visit to a Small Planet 04/27/60 Wake Me When It’s Over 05/04/60 Flame Over India 05/11/60 Man on a String 05/18/60 Crack in the Mirror 05/25/60 The Mountain Road 06/01/60 Circus of Horrors 06/08/60 Wild River 06/15/60 The Story of Ruth 06/29/60 Ice Palace 07/06/60 Portrait in Black 07/27/60 The Bellboy 08/10/60 From the Terrace 09/07/60 Let’s Make Love 09/28/60 Hell to Eternity 10/12/60 It Started in Naples 10/19/60 The Dark at the Top of the Stairs 10/26/60 Song Without End 11/02/60 Midnight Lace 11/16/60 All the Young Men 11/23/60 G. I. Blues 12/14/60 Goliath and the Dragon 12/21/60 The World of Suzie Wong 02/15/61 Circle of Deception 02/22/61 The Great Imposter 03/15/61 Hippodrome 03/22/61 Konga 03/29/61 The Sins of Rachel Cade 04/05/61 Pepe 05/03/61 Return to Peyton Place 05/17/61 The Secret Ways 05/24/61 One-Eyed Jacks 06/21/61 Wild in the Country 06/28/61 The Pleasure of His Company 07/12/61 Two Rode Together 07/19/61 Tammy Tell Me True 08/02/61 The Guns of Navarone 09/13/61 Marines, Let’s Go!/The Battle of Bloody Beach 09/20/61 Operation Petticoat/Imitation of Life 09/27/61 Francis of Assisi 10/04/61 Scream of Fear/The Trunk 10/11/61 Splendor in the Grass 10/25/61 The Hustler 11/01/61 Two Women 11/08/61 Breakfast at Tiffany’s 11/22/61 Blue Hawaii 12/06/61 I Bombed Pearl Harbor 12/13/61 White Christmas 12/20/61 Flower Drum Song 01/17/62 Bachelor Flat 01/31/62 The Innocents 02/07/62 Madison Avenue 02/14/62 Lover Come Back 04/04/62 State Fair 04/18/62 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence 05/09/62 Cape Fear 05/23/62 Lonely are the Brave (World Premiere) 05/30/62 Burn, Witch, Burn 06/06/62 Zotz 06/13/62 Hell is for Heroes 06/20/62 The Counterfeit Traitor 07/04/62 Hatari 08/01/62 The Music Man 09/12/62 Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man 09/19/62 Rear Window 09/26/62 No Man is an Island 10/03/62 The 300 Spartans 10/10/62 The Chapman Report 10/31/62 Wonderful to Be Young 11/07/62 Requiem for a Heavyweight 11/14/62 Horror Hotel/Bloodlust 11/21/62 Girls! Girls! Girls! 12/05/62 The War Lover 12/12/62 It’s Only Money 12/26/62 Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World

RSM3853 commented about Bethel Cinemas on May 22, 2012 at 5:18 pm

@Rick Aubrey – the dance studio was in the building two doors away from Bethel Cinemas. It has also been a restaurant and rental hall. In between is a KFC.

RSM3853 commented about Dattola Theatre on May 22, 2012 at 4:53 pm

This is the theater that had the Pittsburgh area premiere of “I Am Curious (Yellow)” in November 1969 since it was over the county line and away from being raided and seized by the authorities.