The little poster tells us that one of the films being shown was a re-release of Chaplin’s The Gold Rush, probably the 1942 edition with added musical track. The larger poster salutes Allied fighters.
Note the bicycles, a primary means of transportation before cars came into wider use. The famous film Bicycle Thief (Thieves) would be made in 1948. This picture is from 1944/46.
Millionaire Playboy was a 1940 movie.
An Ingmar Bergman film and a British car comedy.
Where I saw most of my movies as a kid between 1948 and 1955. A 12-minute walk from my house. It is very possible that I am in this photo.
From 1937.
Circa 1937.
Looks like 1937.
Showing Pete Kelly’s Blues from 1955.
CinemaScope print. Compressed image.
In 1944.
In 1925.
Tiko and the Shark is a 1962 Italian film. Among the scriptwriters was the noted Italo Calvino.
The little poster tells us that one of the films being shown was a re-release of Chaplin’s The Gold Rush, probably the 1942 edition with added musical track. The larger poster salutes Allied fighters.
From an Italian-language newspaper of L.A.
This Roman theatre is located on the street between the basilicas of St. Mary Major and Saint John Lateran.
Note the bicycles, a primary means of transportation before cars came into wider use. The famous film Bicycle Thief (Thieves) would be made in 1948. This picture is from 1944/46.
“La Lupa” in Italian.
Ad from this run posted elsewhere.
From 1967. Ad from this run posted elsewhere.
Photo of marquee posted from this run.
An Italian film about China, with added scents.
Forgotten gem!
I actually saw this double bill (elsewhere) with some guys that year after our Catholic school retreat master priest sort of recommended it. Dreadful!
“The Unconquered” by DeMille, at regular prices.
But no Bogart at that time.
Ah, “Four Devils” - a lost film by F.W. Murnau.