First Movie You Ever Saw at Theatre?

[unassuming]

What was the first movie that you ever saw in a theatre?

For me, IIRC, it was "Hang'em High", 1968, starring Clint Eastwood. I remember saying to myself, "that's the Skipper from Gilligan's Island!, what's he doing there?", LOL

 

[Brill]

Herbie, the Love Bug from 1968.

 

[saxon]

The Ten Commandments.

 

[maurice93]

ET

 

[Antonio Ferreira]

Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981, Yorkdale Mall

 

[xmontrealer]

Some Roy Rogers or Gene Autrey flick, at a Saturday Matinee at the Uptown Theatre on Academy Road in Winnipeg, with the current weekly episode of Buck Rogers as an intro, and some Looney Tunes cartoons!

Ah, the Golden Age of Cinema!!

 

[bazokajoe]

Not sure which 1 was first,but it was either Jaws or Blazing Saddles.

 

[basketcase]

Star Wars (the OG one) but was young enough I don't remember much other than going.

 

[ptp]

East Rider when i was 9 years old .

 

[poker]

Puff the Magic Dragon.... 197? It was a Birthday party.

 

[AJ_foyt2]

ET

 

[JohnHenry]

Don't remember, but we used to take the Rossland bus to the Roxy in Woodbridge, or to the Fox or Biltmore on Weston Rd. It was a nickel each way on the bus plus a dime for a soft drink, and I think about a quarter for the ticket.

 

[y2kmark]

Sleeping Beauty, fun for the whole family. 50's sometime...

 

[eddie kerr]

Sleeping Beauty, fun for the whole family. 50's sometime...

Some Roy Rogers or Gene Autrey flick, at a Saturday Matinee at the Uptown Theatre on Academy Road in Winnipeg, with the current weekly episode of Buck Rogers as an intro, and some Looney Tunes cartoons!

Ah, the Golden Age of Cinema!!

How about this for that golden age. 1956, at the age of 16, went by myself to the theatre for the first time and saw The Blackboard Jungle, starring Sidney Poitier, Glen Ford, Vic Morrow, etc. about a high school in NY city where a class of teenage students were rebellious, undisaplined threatened their teacher with violence. This movie shocked the hell out of me as I was a naive high school student myself and never experienced anything like this. The best part of this movie was the opening showing Bill Haley and the Comets playing the song Rock Around The Clock and that song got me totally into rock and roll.

 

[bemeup]

I remember it was a hot summer evening in 1963 or 1964. The movie was Quo Vadis at the Glendale theatre on Avenue Rd.

 

[xmontrealer]

My fave from 1956 was The Girl Can't Help It, with Little Richard, Eddie Cochrane, Fats Domino, The Platters, Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps, and, of course, Jayne Mansfield!

First "horror film" was The Blob, 1958, with young Steve McQueen.

 

[onomatopoeia]

Quite possibly That Darn Cat!, (1965 Disney film with Hayley Mills). In the 1960's, my family lived in The Beaches, walking distance from The Fox theater on Queen St. East. They always had G rated double features on weekends. My father wasn't the type to check when the movies started, so we'd usually come in half way through a movie, watch the next one, then leave when they got to the part we'd already seen when the first movie came on again. The first one I saw on my own in first run was Beneath The Planet of the Apes.

 

[shack]

Thunderball at the Nortown. Bathurst and Eglinton

 

[Ponderling]

The Rescuers, in Parry Sound in the summer of 1977, when getting away from camp mid three days of rain when family camping at Killbear. I was 10. Next movie was another trip to town on a rainy day and took in Star Wars, and I think into the Kresge store for new shorts for me.

 

[Mandalorian]

The Towering Inferno, at the Skyline Hotel Theatre by the airport.