Sunset Drive-In
4291 Highway 16,
Plentywood,
MT
59254
4291 Highway 16,
Plentywood,
MT
59254
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This single-screen drive-in opened in 1952, and could accomodate 150 cars. Until just recently, the city of Plentywood had two movie venues, the Sunset Drive-In and the Orpheum Theatre. The drive-in’s season went from May until September.
Formerly, from fall until spring, the Orpheum Theatre would operate while the drive-in was closed. The Sunset Drive-In was closed August 25, 2012.
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Thanks so much. Here is a harder one and I am not running a test,but do you know the name of the Drive in in the movie “TELEFON” with Charles Bronson. I remember because while filming in the lot they ran the same loop through the projector during the action.I figured it was Southern California. Is FORT BENTON DRIVE IN still open.
Thanks I will because there are quite a few Drive-ins in Movies I like.
July 28-30 1996 Now Showing at the SUNSET DRIVE-IN THEATRE is “THE PHANTOM”
July 31- August 3 1996 Now Showing “THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME”
August 4-6 1996 NOW SHOWING “ THE CRAFT”
August 7-10 1996 Now Showing “THE CABLE GUY”
August 11-13 1996 Now Showing “THE ARRIVAL”
August 14-17 1996 Now Playing “PHENOMENON”
August 18-20 1996 Now Playing “STRIPTEASE”
August 21- 25 1996 Now Showing “ERASER”
August 26- 31 1996 Now showing “MULTIPLICITY”
Sept 1-1996 Now Playing “MULTIPLICITY”
COMING SOON “INDEPENDENCE DAY”
RADIO SOUND at the SUNSET DRIVE-in, 90.1 FM.
They sent me this flyer back in 1996 along with some pictures after I wrote the SUNSET about reading an article in BOXOFFICE.I thought it was awful nice of those folks to go to all that trouble.Just another goodie i dug up.
Sadly, per Facebook, the Sunset Drive-In in Plentywood, Montana, closed at the end of August this year. Believe the owners, and the town, are trying to renovate the local movie theater in Plentywood (new digital projection system). I wanted to see a movie at this drive in… and I never made it.
Yup…It is closed!! That is the problem in small community’s, there just was not enough business to switch to digital projection. After reading some FB posts, I think maybe they quit to soon. You lease projectors now.
Ken..can you mark it closed!!
Hopefully a lot of the drive-ins that shut down last season will re open with the new lease to own digital projectors
The Orpheum Theatre is open and community operated on a volunteer basis. It has switched to digital projection. So Plentywood does have an outlet for motion pictures.
Current Aerial shows the screen and marquee have been removed.
Boxoffice, Feb. 10, 1958: “The Orpheum Theatre and Sunset Drive-In here have been purchased by Myron Bean and Lee Riley, owners and operators of the Starlite Drive-In at Forsyth, which they plan to sell.”