Sunset Hills Cinema 4
10925 Sunset Plaza,
Sunset Hills,
MO
63122
10925 Sunset Plaza,
Sunset Hills,
MO
63122
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Previously operated by: General Cinema Corp.
Architects: Syl G. Schmidt
Previous Names: Sunset Hills Cinema 1 & II
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The Sunset Hills Cinema was opened December 24, 1964 by General Cinema as a two screen theatre seating 1,500. The larger auditorium had 1,000 seats and the small number two had 500. When the Sunset Hills first opened it was about that time that the suburban theatres started running day and date with the big movie palaces in downtown and on Grand Avenue. The Sunset Hills ran day and date with the Loew’s State Theatre and the Loew’s Mid City Theatre.
In 1964 they converted the two auditoriums into a four screens. This was the main GCC house in the St. Louis market until the Lindbergh 8 opened. When GCC closed its houses in St. Louis the Sunset Hills closed for about two years when the Mosley brothers cleaned it up and reopened it as a discount house. It remained that until it closed in 1997 and was demolished for the expansion for the Sunset Hills Shopping Center.
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Recent comments (view all 24 comments)
Did “The Sting” “The Godfather” and Paper Moon" play here when the were first released? My fuzzy memory may be playing tricks in me….
Hey thanks…yeah I think i saw all of those at Sunset Hills…..also “Westworld” and “Papillion”……popular theater back then….so weird that everything seems to be gone now…..
Needy and Kyle, the theater was at the top of the sloped parking lot on the west end of the shopping center. It faced west toward the parking lot, with the entrance approximately here: 38.55348,-90.413517
Oceantracks, you’ve got a good memory. I remember seeing Paper Moon there as a kid with my family, along with most of the others you mentioned. I think “The Sting” ran for about a year.
Joe Vogel, Once again, many thanks for another informative back issue link. The great details that General Cinema took with it theaters still seems unmatched anywhere. I briefly worked for them in the mid 1970’s-Hartsdale, NY.
dscheifler….thanks yeah they were all memorable films to me so the whole evening still hangs around there in memory…..that theater was. A big one for me….so weird to think of so many places from our youth are now just memories…
December 24th, 1964 grand opening ad in photo section. First twin in the area.
Does anyone know where the film Cactus Flower played? I seem to think it was either here or maybe a cinema at South County mall…..thx
“Cactus Flower” played at the Creve Coeur, Grandview and South County. None of these theatres exists today.
Did Butch Cassidy play here when first released?