Due to its Downtown Brooklyn location, the Metropolitan was exclusive first-run for the borough until the advent of “Showcase” distribution in the 1960s. But a product split with the Brooklyn Paramount, Fox, and RKO Albee deprived the “Met” of some films that ran on the Loew’s neighborhood circuit, causing frequent hold-overs, even when business didn’t warrant them.
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Due to its Downtown Brooklyn location, the Metropolitan was exclusive first-run for the borough until the advent of “Showcase” distribution in the 1960s. But a product split with the Brooklyn Paramount, Fox, and RKO Albee deprived the “Met” of some films that ran on the Loew’s neighborhood circuit, causing frequent hold-overs, even when business didn’t warrant them.