Creve Coeur Cine'
10570 Olive Street Road,
Creve Coeur,
MO
63141
10570 Olive Street Road,
Creve Coeur,
MO
63141
2 people
favorited this theater
Showing all 14 comments
The AMC 12 now stands about 100 yards NE from the old CC3 site.
Just out of curiosity, what is now on the site of where the Creve Coeur Cine used to be?
The Alien preview happened on April 6th, 1979. Then-Fox head Alan Ladd Jr. and many Fox representatives were in attendance along with the heads of the circuits run in the state.
AWESOME!!! I’ll email you shortly!
In response to Chris Utley please e-mail me at with an e-mail address and I can send you some pics of Creve Coeur interior. Most of the shots will have former staff but I have a ton of pics from the 3 years that I worked there. I do have one shot from the final night showing the screen in House 1 will all of the staff standing on the wall infront of it.
The reconfiguration of the single screen theatre into a tri-plex opened on December 21, 1984. In the re-do, the original auditorium, seating 916, turned into the “main” house seating 511 and the two others seating 194 each…for a total of 899. The original screen had dimensions of 60x38; it was cut down to 52x34 in the re-do.
Does anyone have any interior photos of this theatre – specifically ones with the auditorium/screen?
I used to work at this theater from 1990 to 1992 when I was in High School. I do recall the decor being different than any other theater in St. Louis. In reference to the 70mm comment above, during the summer of 1991 the theater ran a series of 70mm films. These films included “Meet Me in St. Louis”, “Spartacus”, and many other films. It was only 1 of 2 theaters in St. Louis at the time that had a projector that was still capable of playing the 70mm of these films. During my time there the Creve Coeur Cine' also premiered the movie “White Palace” which starred Susan Sarandon and James Spader. This movie was also filmed in St. Louis. To go even further back one of my first movie memeories as a kid was standing in line with my father to see the “Empire Strikes Back” at the Creve Coeur Cine' back in 1980!
“Alien” did play at CreveCoeur. That engagement is mentioned in this fascinating article about how the movie got released. The piece also mentioned, to my surprise, that St. Louis was selected as the city in which they ran “Alien” for a test audience to gauge reaction to influence any final adjustments made to the movie.
Opening attraction was an exclusive, reserved seat run of “Oliver!” The film ran 27 weeks.
This cinema also premiered “Alien” in STL, if memory serves..
The orignal theatre was a 1 screen that sat over 900 people. Later it was remodeled and cut into to three auditoriums. The end as Chuck puts it was not when AMC built next door. It was when AMC built a 16 plex a few miles down the road. The doors closed for the final show on September 13, 1999. The AMC 12 opened a few weeks later.
Very 1960s design, beautiful interior. I loved this house from the moment I entered it in 1970 to see the 70mm roadshow of “Goodbye Mr. Chips”. What a shame it’s gone…
The Creve Coeur Cine will also hold a place in St. Louis movie history due to the fact that it showed “Star Wars” during it’s original 1977 premiere engagement. Ditto for “The Empire Strikes Back”.