Odeon Park Royal
1-6 Ritz Parade, Western Avenue,
London,
W5 3RA
1-6 Ritz Parade, Western Avenue,
London,
W5 3RA
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The cinema was then called Paradise Cinema when it was seen in The Professionals episode First night(first transmitted in the UK on 21/10/1978). The movie posters shown all appeared to be from India?
Used as a location in The Professionals episode First Night exterior and interior footage
erotic urges! – press ad from march 1971 as the tatler
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/5448307280/
Brilliant pictures, but VERY sad. To think that when I was a boy, it was the local 1st run cinema.
a sad set of pictures here…
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This was my local cinema, and I visited it frequently from the age of 7 to 16, when it stopped showing films full-time. One of its major attractions was that it was the only cinema in Ealing which was equipped with full 4 track mag Cinemascope presentation capability. I saw South Pacific there – in full surround sound – as a member of an audience of less than 10 people, so it was no wonder it had to close!
Even when it had closed, and was supposedly empty between 1980 and 1983, there were often lights to be seen inside, and the local belief was that people were actually LIVING in it.
Further details that I forgot to mention in my opening text:-
The Ritz Cinema opened on 9th April 1938.
The final programme as a full time Classic Cinema on 8th December 1968 was Terence Morgan in “The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb” and Koreya Senda “The H Man”(Bijo to Ekitainingen). Bingo then took over Mondays to Fridays, with films on a weekend.
When it became a Tatler Film Club the first programme was “Sex Serum of Doctor Blake” and Janet Banzet in “Professor Lust”. I have no record of the final depravity or the Bollywood films shown when it became the Paradise Cinema, as they were only advertised locally.