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The Paramount Theatre opened on 3rd May 1966 with Richard Burton in “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold”.

The theatre ran successfully even racking up a record run for “Can’t Stop The Music” which had its World Premiere preview at the Paramount Theatre, presented in 70mm on 1st June 1980, but the film did not do well anywhere else.

70mm presentations had begun in 1974 with a re-release of “The Ten Commandments”. Others were “Star Trek”, “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and the final 70mm show, “The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas”.

In 1984 Greater Union demolished the Paramount Theatre and adjacent Rapallo Theatre to extend the neighbouring Hoyts multiplex which they had taken over.

Contributed by Greg Lynch -