Medallion 5 Theatre

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I saw “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” there about 1969. It is now a Kohls department store.

Described in this 1970 trade article: Boxoffice

The Dallas Public Library’s Interstate Theatres Collection includes four sheets of plans for the Medallion Theatre in Dallas, by architect Jack H. Morgan. They are dated October 24, 1968, so construction probably began not long after that date.

I only ever went to this theater once and saw Halloween H2O. I remember the theater seemed on its last legs. There is a Kohl’s in that spot now.

The Medallion was still a single screen as late as summer 1979 when it showcased the exclusive first run of “Alien.”

One aspect of the description was wrong; it might have opened as a single screen, but sometime in the 70’s it became a double screen. I distinctly recall either having to go right to one screen or left to another; somewhat like the General Cinema Theater at Northpark. I did not know this was an Interstate Theater at first. Our family knew the man who ran Interstate for Dallas/Fort Worth, Raymond Willie. My dad was in advertising and used my sister and I in an ad campaign for Interstate’s showing of the Disney movie, “In Search of the Castaways” with Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier. I have pictures of the publicity.

OOps! My original comment about “Gandhi” was incorrect; it opened at Northpark in 1983, not 1973!

James, “Gandhi” was released in 1982, altho' I agree, I don’t recall the Medallion being a 70mm showcase until “Rollerball” and later.

“This theatre opened with 70MM capability but didn’t show a 70MM feature until 6 years later when Rollerball opened in 1975—ran quite a bit of 70 after that.”

• including “Gandhi,” if memory serves.

The Medallion was the first in a planned new generation of Interstate suburban venues dedicated to prestige exclusive first-run bookings; included in this plan were new single-screen suburban showplaces to replace the old downtown prestige venues, Palace, Tower, and Majestic, all of which were scheduled for closing and/or demolition. This plan was never carried to ultimate fruition and, though the three downtown venues were indeed eventually shuttered, only the Medallion was constructed before Interstate itself ceased to exist. Everything about the Medallion was first-class except, IMHO, for the screen, which was ruler-flat instead of curved. Overall, not much to complain about.