Morris County Mall Twin
235 Ridgedale Avenue,
Cedar Knolls,
NJ
07927
235 Ridgedale Avenue,
Cedar Knolls,
NJ
07927
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Previously operated by: General Cinema Corp.
Functions: Retail
Previous Names: Cinema I & II
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This mall theatre may have been operated by General Cinema. It was located in the Morris County Mall (today the Cedar Knolls Plaza) in Cedar Knolls between Hanover & Morristown. The Cinema I & II was opened April 5, 1974 with John Phillip Law in “The Golden Voyage of Sinbad” & Pierre Richard in “The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe”. It was closed on December 23, 1993 with Mike Myers in “Wayne’s World 2” & the animated feature “The Nightmare Before Christmas”.
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Recent comments (view all 13 comments)
I remember this movie theater as it was co-located with the Morris County Mall. Although I saw several films here I can only immediately recall Monty Python’s LIFE OF BRIAN, PORKY’S, and the movie version of BEATLEMANIA. This movie theater also hosted late shows.
As with many smaller theaters, this movie was doomed by multiplexes such as the one that replaced the Morristown theater.
I worked here briely as a projectionist in 1990, when things were already in a downslide. Had 2 screens, screen 1 was the bigger of the 2 theatres. Ran “teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” in the spring of 1990, which seemed to be the last harrah for this theatre.
Hey movie534 I have a couple of questions, who was your theater manager and did Richie Harrington work there when you were the projectionist? I worked at Essex Green in West Orange from Sept ‘86 to Sept '87 and occassionally he got pawned off to us when our manager John Monsport or the assistant manager John Boyd weren’t available to work.
The natural progression of things in this country is so damned sad.This was a wonderful theater and my favorite memory was in early 1984 (January maybe) and having the pleasure of seeing Terry Bedford’s crime/action film “Slayground” starring Peter Coyote,Mel Smith,Billie Whitelaw and the late Philip Sayer as The Shadowman.This was a twin theater and Lord knows this would never be acceptable these days with the 18 and 24 movieplexes and so forth.The worst thing is the fact that this General Cinema theater would eventually become what is the Wal-Mart store.Progress…I THINK NOT!!!
misterrick, I did not know any of the projectionists from the union up there. I only did matinee shows when they couldn’t fill them. The manager when I worked there was a guy named Ralph Siroli, a quite weird little guy. I remember John Monsport from the 80’s. I do agree with ianz, it was a nice little theatre.
Did this theater have Dolby Stereo like the other big General Cinemas?
moviebuff82, when I worked there in the early 90’s this theatre had only mono sound in each theatre.
According to https://mobile.twitter.com/OldMovieAds/status/1000052215241785344/photo/2 this had dolby stereo .
This opened on April 5th, 1974. Grand opening ad in the photo section.
Closed on December 23, 1993 with “Wayne’s World 2” in Screen 1 and “The Nightmare Before Christmas” in Screen 2.