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A second comedy-thriller from the team of A&C, was originally a vehicle planned as a Bob Hope comedy entitled Easy Does It. The Hope role is fairly evenly divided between Bud Abbott, as hotel house detective “Casey Edwards”, and Lou ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1949 | Not Rated | Comedy, Mystery | d. Charles Barton Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Saturday, Aug 8 at 10:00 AM
Archival 35mm 60th Anniversary Screening
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(re)Discovery |
In this slapstick comedy-mystery, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello play would-be radio writers who find themselves involved in a real murder during the recording of a “whodunit” play. Trying to solve the crime, they are suspected by the police-and targeted ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1942 | Not Rated | Comedy, Mystery | d. Erle C. Kenton Bud Abbott, Lou Costello Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Saturday, Aug 8 at 01:00 PM
Archival 35mm An Abbott & Costello Classic
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All roads lead to El Paso, Texas in this early seventies classic, directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Steve McQueen at the height of his fame and counter-cultural cache. McQueen plays a just-released convict, “Doc” McCoy, who is pressured ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1972 | PG | Action, Crime | d. Sam Peckinpah Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson Philanthropy Theatre
Saturday, Aug 8 at 01:30 PM
Digital Filmed in El Paso, Texas
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Signature Classic |
A flying British nanny changes the lives of two children, largely ignored by their disciplinarian banker father and loving but distracted suffragette mother. Aloof but charming, Mary Poppins, with or without jack of all trades Bert, takes the Banks kids ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1964 | G | Family, Musical | d. Robert Stevenson Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Saturday, Aug 8 at 03:30 PM
Archival 35mm 45th Anniversary Screening
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Signature Classic |
James Stewart comes by his fear of heights honestly. At the beginning of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, he’s a cop hanging by his fingertips from a building ledge. Stewart spends the rest of the film hanging by even less.
After ... read more |
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With Special Guest C.O. “Doc” Erickson Sponsored by 1958 | Not Rated | Mystery, Thriller | d. Alfred Hitchcock James Stewart, Kim Novak Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Saturday, Aug 8 at 07:00 PM
Archival 35mm
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(re)Discovery |
Sometimes it’s the case with cinema, that the less you know about a film, the more you are open to its advances. That should be doubly true when you don’t even know what you’re going to watch! So ... read more |
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With Guest Presenter Zach Passero Sponsored by 1971 | | Drama, Action | d. Philanthropy Theatre
Saturday, Aug 8 at 07:30 PM
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Blazing Saddles is indeed a comic gem, made in 1974 when Mel's brand of comedy was still in vogue. Cleavon Little plays Bart, a black railroad worker in 1874 whose act of rebellion against his abusive boss dooms him to ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1974 | | Comedy, Western | d. Mel Brooks Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman Arts Festival Plaza
Saturday, Aug 8 at 09:00 PM
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The sleeper box office hit celebrates its 25th Anniversary this year and, along with Conan the Barbarian two years earlier, firmly established a former “Mr. Universe” and multi-awarded bodybuilding champ and present California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger the cinema’s premiere action ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1984 | R | Sci-Fi, Action | d. James Cameron Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Saturday, Aug 8 at 10:00 PM
Archival 35mm 25th Anniversary Screening
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Local Flavor |
As a teenager, Lee fled his hometown in the American Midwest. Six years later he returns, a strange kind of ghost seeking haunt in his mother’s basement, seeking the other who resides there - Ready, his brother.
Ready’s plans ... read more |
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With special guests Zach Passero and Justin Stone Sponsored by 2009 | Not Rated | Drama, Drama | d. Zach Passero, Justin Stone Justin Stone, Zach Passero, Lindsay Stone Philanthropy Theatre
Saturday, Aug 8 at 10:00 PM
Digital World Premiere Screening
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