On Area Movie Screens – January 10, 1964

We'll close out the week here on the blog with yet another look at what movies were playing at the local theaters – in this case, a mere sixty years ago. Above is the movie page from the January 10, 1964 Journal.

The main reason I posted it is because it includes an ad for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – one of my favorite movies (which I wrote about here). Our family saw it in Cleveland at the Palace and it's a cherished memory of mine (and an early one too since I was only about five years old). I watch the movie on DVD every few years and it always makes me happy, as well as making me want to visit California to see some of the locations where it was filmed.

Here's a promotion for the movie that I've never seen before. It's pretty funny.

Elsewhere on the page, there was quite a variety. James Garner, one of my father's favorite actors (who he always referred to as 'Rockford') was starring with Doris Day in Move Over, Darling (1963) at the Tivoli. It's interesting that even at that late date, the movie ad promotes that 'news and color cartoon' were part of the bill. Animated cartoons made for the big screen were pretty bad by that time.

At the Palace in Lorain was a pretty good horror comedy, The Comedy of Terrors, starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone. Joe E. Brown was listed as a 'special guest star.' He was a busy guy apparently, because he was in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World too.

Over at the Ohio Theatre was one of the popular British 'Carry On' films, Carry On Regardless.

Also on the bill was another British comedy, Dentist on the Job (released in the U. S. as Get On With It). I guess Lorainites' tastes in movie comedy had to evolve, since the last Bowery Boys movie had been released in 1958.