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


CAPITOL THEATRE
1940 Engagement

CAPITOL THEATRE
1940 Engagement

CAPITOL THEATRE
1940 Engagement

CAPITOL THEATRE
1940 Engagement

CAPITOL THEATRE
1940 Engagement

CAPITOL THEATRE
1940 Tie-in with DUKE POWER

CAPITOL THEATRE
1941 Engagement

CAPITOL THEATRE
1941 Engagement

CAPITOL THEATRE
1942 Engagement

CAPITOL THEATRE
1942 Engagement

CAPITOL THEATRE
1942 Engagement

CAPITOL THEATRE
1942 Engagement

CAPITOL THEATRE
1942 Engagement

CAPITOL THEATRE
1942 Engagement

CAPITOL THEATRE
1961 Engagement

CAPITOL THEATRE
1961 Engagement

CENTER THEATRE
June 17, 1962

CAPITOL THEATRE
January 5, 1969

CAPITOL THEATRE
August 22, 1954

CAPITOL THEATRE
August 22, 1954

601 DRIVE-IN THEATRE
November 26, 1954