So what was playing in the local theaters back at the end of May 1962 – sixty years ago? Leave us take a look at the Lorain Journal movie page from May 31, 1962.
Why, none other than Elvis was starring in two features – Wild in the Country at the Lorain Drive-in and Blue Hawaii at the Carlisle Drive-in. Also on the bill at the Lorain Drive-in was Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).
Here's the trailers for Wild in the Country and Blue Hawaii.
At the Dreamland, there was a quite a double bill: Roger's and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song and Everything's Ducky (1961) with Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hackett. (Hey, those two also performed as a comedy team in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.)
And finally – (I'm saving the best for last), over at the Avon Lake Theatre was one of my favorite classic Westerns, with two of my favorite Western stars: Ride the High Country (1962) with Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott.I'm a big Joel McCrea fan thanks to GRIT TV, and this one is a fitting cap to his long career (although he made a couple of films after it). If you've never seen it, you're in for a real treat – and a few shocks as well. It's terrific!
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Ride the High Country,Cape Fear and Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea are all classics that I watch from time to time.Ride The High Country was Randolph Scott's last movie before he retired.And Robert Mitchums assault on Polly Bergen in Cape Fear is a classic example of instilling fear into someone without actually having any physical violence involved.Back when actors actually acted instead of all this fake CGI garbage they make now.
I remember going to Lorain Drive-In with my parents as a kid, with those clunky metal speakers that hung from the inside of the window. I particularly remember seeing Ivanhoe with Robert Taylor and the snack bar. Great hotdogs.
Voyage to the bottom of the sea…
When I saw it as a kid, one of the things that I noticed was, as the temperatures grew hotter, the young, virile men sweated under the arms while the old, broken-down men sweated across the stomachs.
I remember hoping that I’d never be so old that I would sweat across my stomach.
Didn’t work out that way.
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