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Author Topic: Memorable films released on August 14th... Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 08-14-2011 02:59 AM                     Also released on 8/14... Life With Father (1947) No Way Out (1987) Single White Female (1992) The Avengers (1998) District 9 (2009) Please share your memories of seeing or working with any of these films.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-14-2011 11:54 AM                     Michael, you forgot to put the year by RHPS! Still, for a movie that is 36 years old and STILL playing in theaters, that's simply amazing. (Fun movie too.) BTW does anyone know if there were ever any 35mm mag prints of this title?  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 08-14-2011 12:02 PM                     Saw this for the first time this past winter, on 35mm, with an audience. It was one of the most memorable theatrical experiences I've been a part of. Truly an American classic. AJG  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-14-2011 04:42 PM                     There was a mag print in Sydney, I believe...  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-14-2011 09:55 PM                        If there was, Fox never admitted it, at least not to me. The New York Office insisted no mag prints were ever struck. But we all know they lie just to get pests like me to stop hounding them. I was a mag freak in those days; we tried to play any and every mag title that I could get my hands on. Never got to play this one in mag. I understand there were Dolby stereo prints later in the 90s, but I never saw one of those either. Fox had this bizarre arrangement where they would loan prints out for months at a time to these guys who would go around and four-wall local neighborhood theatres and run midnight shows. They would pack the house, run the boxoffice themselves & take the print and money away in garbage bags at the end of the night. I never saw any sign that they were even keeping track of ticket sales. I would be VERY surprized if Fox ever got a penny of the percentage. The "producers" always looked to me like they were less than legit -- they certainly were not movie people. How they ever got Fox to give them a long-term loan of a print is beyond me; it sounded totally bogus. But they were back every five or six weeks wanting to rent the theatre again for another midnight show. Another projectionist told me another group of thugs was doing the same at his theatre. Very weird. Anyone else ever come across this strange arrangement...Fox loaning out prints of RHPS to a bunch of guys that look like they just finished a shoot on the set of The Sopranos?  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 08-15-2011 12:14 AM                     tons of memories for me on RHPS ! September of 1976 at our theatre in my home town. This film came in for a one week run as a regular feature. The manager and I watched this film the day I got the print: 20th Century-FOX Color by DeLuxe Flat-1.37:1, full frame 100 minutes 6 reels mono optical track just to see what this is all about (even though we heard buzz about it in those old red covered "Boxoffice" magazines-about the stage play of the almost same title, just that "picture" wasn't there - just "Rocky Horror Show") and actually liked it for the 50's style rock and roll music, absurb costumes, themes and the whole thing about this film. The friday of the opening, we had a decent crowd - mainly the curious and party going type of people - that witness this film. Film did okey for the wknd, but not enough to keep it two weeks, thus, it was gone after the last show on that Thursday night. (Little did the manager and I knew that we had witness a cult classic..) By the spring of 1977, "RPHS" grew to cult status where we were running the film (almost the same print that came from NFS out of SLC) once a month... I began to have fun with "RHPS": I had a PA system up in the booth tied to the sound system, for we would make announcements through the sound system (Simplex XL sound). Right before I raised the curtains, but had the house lights dimmed, I would come on the mic and holler out "Whata do we want?", and the crowd would yell out "LIPS!!", I would repeat it again and of course the crowd would yell out again, "LIPS!!". I would holler out, "OKEY HERE THEY ARE!!", pop the dowser open and swing to sound over to the machine running the first reel, FOX trademark begins on the screen, and up goes the main waterfall curtain,then title curtains. (There was a bona fide projectionist law to NEVER expose a bare screen to the public. They are never to see what the screen actually looks like.. the opening of any film was designed to like opening the drapes of a huge picture window and the patrons are looking out the window). After a few screenings of this movie, our crowd attendance increased where we had costume contests and such. Radio stations loved the exposure and gave away freebies. Once again, this is where I had my fun again: When the "Rocky" and cast wannabes would get up on stage to actually act out the parts, I had a glass slide projector that I would use with a glass slide inserted that was painted black except for a one inch clear opening. I would use this as a spot light on the characters as they were dancing on the stage.... what total fun I had! ...and the chore of cleaning that big auditorium (696) seats of the trash and water the patrons threw around! We had to clean it due to the janitors refused to clean that house after such a mess. Took us all night to get it back to presentable condition. Last time I ran "RPHS" was in 1989 and the cult aspect at this time really died off .. also, it was getting ready for VHS release... It was a fun movie to present, but the cleanup was horrible to mention. I remember when FOX TV network had a special on RHPS with the original cast of: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon (her first movie), Barry Bostwich (also his first) and the host of others... -Monte  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-15-2011 01:44 AM                        I saw RHPS at the now-defunct Park Theatre in Miles City, Montana. I thought it was one of the biggest wastes of four hours (counting an hour driving time each way) in the history of my life. Why that thing became a "classic" is beyond my comprehension. I still don't see the appeal of it when there are really good old movies out there just waiting to be viewed. Maybe if I had been stoned at the time, it would have helped.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-15-2011 07:28 PM                     quote: Monte L Fullmer Susan Sarandon (her first movie) It wasn't her first movie.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-16-2011 10:02 AM                        But the one that put her on the map, at least with all of us who were of a certain age (and mindset).  |  IP: Logged

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