On Area Movie Screens – December 1, 1962

We'll kick off December with my favorite go-to topic when I don't have anything else prepared: what was playing on area movie screens sixty years ago.

If you sneak a peek at the Journal page above (from December 1, 1962), then you can see what star was dominating the screen: namely, Elvis! At the Palace was Girls! Girls! Girls! (with Stella Stevens); Follow That Dream (1962) was at the Dreamland; and Kid Galahad (1962) was at the Liberty Theatre in Vermilion. That's three flicks from the King, all released in 1962!

Alan Hopewell's jolly favorite, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? was slaying them at the Avon Lake Theater. Out in South Lorain, the Pearl was showing Spanish-language films: Ojos Tapatios and La Mujer Y La Bestia (The Woman and the Beast).

The ad attracting the most attention on the Journal page was probably the mayhem-filled one for The Pirates of Blood River at the Tivoli. "Women fighting for their lives... as blood thirsty buccaneers ransack a lost tropic island," reads the headline at the top of the ad. It's a Hammer film, so of necessity it has Christopher Lee in it.

After seeing the trailer, I think the poster looks better!

Other film fare in the area included The Vikings with Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine (clothed, I hope) and Janet Leigh at the Lorain Drive-in; Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window at the Amherst Theatre; and Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin in If a Man Answers at the Ohio.

What, no Duke anywhere? What gives, Pilgrim? And no Stooges either.

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I like the ad for Ye Olde Hen House cooped up between the ads for the Ohio and the Lorain Drive-in. That's quite a weekend special: pan fried chicken, home made soup, potatoes, cole slaw, home made biscuits and honey and coffee – all for a buck and a quarter. 

Ye Olde Hen House much later became Jack & Diane's Lounge, as I noted on this post back in 2013.