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 Posted:   Jul 6, 2015 - 12:37 PM   
 By:   CindyLover   (Member)

In its 8-year life, Cinerama Releasing Corporation didn't have very many boxoffice hits. In 1973, it re-released two of its biggest successes as a double bill--the horror films WILLARD (1971) and its sequel BEN (1972).



"A BCP Production." What did they have against having "Bing Crosby Productions" on their posters? And on their opening credits?

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 6, 2015 - 2:34 PM   
 By:   cinemel1   (Member)

i don't remember exactly when (maybe late 60s early 70s) Fox released The Robe with Demetrius & the Gladiators and Peyton Place with Return to Peyton Place. How did we sit for 4 hours?

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 6, 2015 - 2:41 PM   
 By:   Francis   (Member)





OK... another classic I'll have to see; I do wonder how they could work in a raving mass murderer into a comedy lol.

 
 Posted:   Jul 6, 2015 - 2:52 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Love the "Family Matinee" Poster art.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 6, 2015 - 3:09 PM   
 By:   CinemaScope   (Member)

I love that Time Machine poster. Whoever did it obviously hadn't seen the movie, but not a bad design for a time machine.


 
 
 Posted:   Jul 6, 2015 - 6:26 PM   
 By:   Rozsaphile   (Member)

IVANHOE/KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE

THE ROBE/DEMETRIUS AND THE GLADIATORS

I was too young for the originals, but I could have seen the late-fifties double-feature reissues. If only I had! Unfortunately a couple more yearswould pass before I discovered the glories of Rozsa and Newman and Waxman. By that time the films were accessible only on TV, where I would first encounter them in glorious monophonic black and white.

 
 Posted:   Jul 6, 2015 - 8:35 PM   
 By:   Ray Faiola   (Member)

I saw the last theatrical reissue of WAY OUT WEST with Laurel & Hardy. It was double-billed with Tab Hunter in THE GOLDEN ARROW. I ran for the door when that one started.

I wondered why Ollie's head was cut off. He simply wasn't 1:85 safe!!

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 7, 2015 - 3:48 AM   
 By:   CinemaScope   (Member)

In 1959 Warner released a double bill of, Helen Of Troy & Land Of The Pharaohs. I'd have loved to have seen that. Brigitte Bardot was given top billing even though he only played a small part in Helen, but she was world famous by then.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 7, 2015 - 5:46 AM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

I saw the last theatrical reissue of WAY OUT WEST with Laurel & Hardy. It was double-billed with Tab Hunter in THE GOLDEN ARROW. I ran for the door when that one started.


That looks to have been around 1970 or so.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 7, 2015 - 6:15 AM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

In 1959 Warner released a double bill of, Helen Of Troy & Land Of The Pharaohs. I'd have loved to have seen that. Brigitte Bardot was given top billing even though she only played a small part in Helen, but she was world famous by then.


 
 
 Posted:   Jul 7, 2015 - 6:32 AM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

IVANHOE/KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE


 
 
 Posted:   Jul 7, 2015 - 7:54 AM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

Thanks to spending my formative years in the Caribbean, I got to see some odd double bills, like



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In 1964, Paramount paired THE CADDY (1953) on a re-release double bill with YOU'RE NEVER TOO YOUNG (1955).

 
 
 Posted:   May 2, 2016 - 12:37 AM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

In 1972, MGM dug out three black-and-white horror films from the 1930s and re-released them as a triple bill for the nostalgia audience. The three films were: DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1932), THE MASK OF FU MANCHU (1932), and MARK OF THE VAMPIRE (1935).



 
 
 Posted:   May 2, 2016 - 1:49 AM   
 By:   jenkwombat   (Member)

Well, since you've excluded 'Star Wars' as a possibility (for reasons I don't quite understand), I'll pick 'Jaws' when it was re-issued in 1979(?). Love that movie!

I also really enjoyed Disney's 'Pinocchio' when I was very young, but was kind of freaked out by the island that turned bad boys into donkeys....

 
 
 Posted:   May 2, 2016 - 4:18 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

There were obviously the Bond double-bills, which I saw repeatedly during school holidays in the 1970s, but I also recall seeing The Guns of Navarone and Zulu with my dad in the early 70s. The first time I saw Once Upon a Time in the West was also as a reissue in the cinema. I also have very fond memories of going in to the Tyneside Film Theatre in 1977 to see The Producers and coming out with a date. (Don't forget, it was dark in there...)

Good times!

 
 
 Posted:   May 2, 2016 - 5:08 AM   
 By:   Graham Watt   (Member)

I saw all of the Connery Bonds in re-runs, starting maybe around 1972. And the Ray Harryhausen films kept turning up over the school holidays.

The below list is a quickly compiled rabbit with lots of holes in it off the top of my head, no matter how funny that sounds. All from the 1970s, with maybe one or two in the early '80s, I saw...

The Connery Bonds
The Charles Schneer/ Ray Harryhausen series
House of Wax (in 3D, with the specs)
(Horror of) Dracula
War of the Worlds (on a double bill with Michael Winner's The Sentinel)

In fact, I'm going to stop there, because I've just realised that there were hundreds of films I saw on re-release. We used to have, in the UK at least, "Sunday for one day only" things, and I went to them all. Lots of Hammer horrors etc and AIP films, not the early ones, but mostly from the late '60s or the turn of the decade.

 
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