Here are the double and triple features that played the Deuce thirty-one years ago this week. Theaters are listed in east-to-west order.
North Side of the Street
Rialto: VIRGIN DREAMS / BREAKER BEAUTIES
Victory: NAUGHTY NOTIONS / EXPECTATIONS / MARY MARY
Lyric: DEVIL TIMES FIVE / SNUFF
Times Square: MORGAN THE PIRATE / THE THIEF OF BAGHDAD
Apollo: BILLY THE KID VS. DRACULA / JESSE JAMES MEETS FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER / FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH
Selwyn: CONVOY / STRATEGY OF TERROR
South Side of the Street
New Amsterdam: GREASE / BREAKER! BREAKER!
Cine 42: THE YOUNG DRAGON / 5 FINGERS OF DEATH
Harris: YOUNGBLOOD / THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT
Liberty: DAMIEN: OMEN II / END OF THE GAME
Empire: DRAGON SQUAD / HUSTLER SQUAD / BATTLE OF THE AMAZONS
Anco: SHADOW OF THE DRAGON / BLOOD HEROES
Times Square: MORGAN THE PIRATE / THE THIEF OF BAGHDAD
ReplyDeleteApollo: BILLY THE KID VS. DRACULA / JESSE JAMES MEETS FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER
God, these old Embassy stand-bys were still getting 42nd Street dates in 1978?!
What I'd like to know is who put together that Grease / Breaker! Breaker! combo. Maybe it was intended as a Hers & His double bill.
ReplyDeleteOur favorite is still the pairing of NORTHVILLE CEMETERY MASSACRE with IN SEARCH OF HISTORIC JESUS at the Lyric in 1980.
ReplyDeleteThief of Baghdad?! Really now, could a 1940s adventure film still get a billing in 1978? I'd like to see some picture-proof
ReplyDeleteAndre, it's the Steve Reeves version of THIEF OF BAGHDAD from 1961, on a double bill with MORGAN THE PIRATE, another Reeves epic. Both were released by Embassy Pictures, which was Avco Embassy by 1978. The double bill next door at the Apollo was also made up of "classic" Embassy releases, as John Charles points out in the comment above.
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