West End Cinema

Suffolk Street Queensway and Holiday Street,
Birmingham, B1 4EW

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ODEONesque
ODEONesque on July 6, 2021 at 5:51 pm

A chap on Facebook marketplace is selling parts of this organ now!

Alan Baker
Alan Baker on May 26, 2016 at 10:28 am

This is a long time after the original post, but Cleopatra was not cut for the West End! The UK release, including the Dominion Tottenham Court Road, was the 3hr 12 min. version rather than the original 4hr 8min cut. As far as I know the longer version was never shown theatrically in the UK, but can be enjoyed in all its glory on Blu-ray.

Robbie25646
Robbie25646 on September 9, 2012 at 8:29 am

I think South Pacific ran for well over 3 years I saw it there in 1958.

Ken Roe
Ken Roe on October 26, 2010 at 9:18 am

A vintage photograph of the West End Cinema, and its Wurlitzer organ:
http://www.ukwurlitzer.co.cc/1358.html

twidlake
twidlake on January 21, 2008 at 4:59 pm

An interesting bit of inf I came across…before the West End Cinema closed, the screening of CLEOPATRA was cut by about 45 minutes because the length of the film would not have allowed people to see it all without missing the last bus! Does anyone else remember this? Does anyone remember how long SOUTH PACIFIC ran there?