Kingwood 2
1401 Kingwood Drive,
Kingwood,
TX
77339
1401 Kingwood Drive,
Kingwood,
TX
77339
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Previously operated by: AMC Theatres
Previous Names: Kingswood Twin Cinema
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The Kingswood Twin Cinema was opened on December 23, 1977 with Clint Eastwood in “The Gauntlet” & Ben Johnson in “Grayeagle”. Now the site consists of a Starbucks, a gazebo, and a massage therapy school, and back of a Sears catalogue store. The gazebo is closest to capturing the original nature of the site, but it is very sad that this neighborhood theatre, after reportedly becoming a day care center, is now gone.
In the woods at the back (eastern) end separate from a strip shopping center, the box office faced the woods away from the street. This was a teenage hangout, but a really fun place. It was featured on the cover of the Houston Chronicle when “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” opened. The theatre’s heydey was 1979-1982. It usually played a PG film on one screen and a G or an R-rated one on the other. It was closed on February 20, 1986 with Syvester Stallone in “Rocky IV” & Mikhail Baryshnikov in “White Nights”.
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The theatre’s clientele included astronauts and kickers, including the son of famous country singer Roy Head. The son unfortunately later died in a car accident, but his brother Sundance Head was a contestant on American Idol.
Roy Head used to get mad at me for not letting his (now deceased) 13 year old son (older brother of Sundance) in to see R movies. It was a twin theatre—we’d play a PG on one side and on the other side, we’d play a G in the afternoon and an R in the evening. Roy’s son already saw the PG on Fri nite. So what was he to see on Saturday night? [i remembered a parent had got mad at me for the cashier’s letting their 16-year old see Brooke Shields swim in the nude with the boy in “Endless Love.” Roy didn’t want his son hanging out at Roy’s R+ rated honky tonk.
Anyway, at the end, Roy gave me one of his records a souvenir -45
entitled “The Door I Used to Close.”
Fans of the Kingwood Plaza already know that this cinema was part of the Phase 3 expansion that also included three restaurants and a Wackers' Variety Store. Robert Rousch’s Nineteen Sixty Corp. which had the Deauville Twin and partial operational control of the Champions Village and Lamar Plaza cinemas, was the developer and original operator here.
The 750 seat (identical 375 seat twins) venue’s December 23, 1977 grand opening ad in photos as the Kingwood Twin Cinema with “The Gauntlet” and “Greyeagle.” Simplex projection with Dolby sound aided in the presentations.
AMC took over the venue as the AMC Kingwood 2. It closed February 20, 1986 with “Rocky IV” and “White Knights.”
Its “Nights” not “Knights”.