Experience the great films of Hollywood's Golden Era in America's finest Art Deco movie palace.

Doors open 60 minutes before the show - giving you ample time to purchase a cocktail, beverage, or movie snack, admire the Art Deco décor, and enjoy the music from the Mighty Wurlitzer organ

When the curtain rises at 8:00 p.m., you’ll be treated to a newsreel, cartoon, previews, and the Paramount’s prize give-away game “Dec-O-Win”. The feature film begins at 8:30 p.m.

Paramount Movie Classics Schedule
Winter / Spring, 2010
Box Office opens at 6:00pm | Doors open at 7:00pm
Curtain at 8:00pm

Paramount Movie Classics are sponsored by:
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REBECCA (1940) - Still recovering from the death of his much beloved wife, Rebecca, the wealthy Maxim de Winter (Lawrence Olivier) remarries - perhaps too hastily. Joan Fontaine delivers a truly remarkable performance as the young bride struggling to live up to her predecessor while overcoming her husband's grief and the plots of a blackmailer (George Sanders) and a villainous housekeeper (Judith Anderson). Adapted from Daphne du Maurier's novel, this haunting gothic melodrama won director Alfred Hitchcock his only Oscar for "Best Film". [more...]

THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1947) - One of director Orson Welles' most brilliant works and arguably one of the great American surrealist works of art. Welles' film noir classic follows Michael O'Hara, an Irish seaman, petty criminal, and aspiring novelist (played by Welles himself) through a maze of twists, betrayals, and double-crosses from New York City down the coast of Mexico, to Acapulco, and finally to San Francisco. Rita Hayworth turns in a brilliant portrayal of an abused wife whose seductive machinations transform her into a figure of evil just as monstrous as the sadistic calculating husband (Everett Sloane) whom she plots to destroy. The finale, a shoot-out in a hall of mirrors, is legendary in the annals of avant-garde film. [more...]

WAIT UNTIL DARK (1967) - A year after losing her sight in an accident, Susy (Audrey Hepburn) is still learning how to be self sufficient. But when three criminals on the trail of a heroin-filled doll inveigle their way into her home, the stakes suddenly become life or death. Alan Arkin plays what just might be the creepiest psychopathic killer in film history and his two accomplices (Richard Crenna and Jack Weston) are almost as revolting as they manipulate and terrorize the blind Susy. Even 40 years after it was made, this tension-filled spellbinder has not lost an iota of its incredible impact. [more...]

CAPTAIN BLOOD (1935) - Starring the great swashbuckling Errol Flynn as a doctor who is wrongly convicted of treason and sold into slavery, this is perhaps the best pirate movie ever made. Rafael Sabatini's brilliant historical novel receives incomparable treatment from director Michael Curtiz and his stellar cast. Captain Peter Blood's sardonic humor, cold nerves, and hot-blooded temper are so perfectly realized by Errol Flynn that it is impossible to think of any other actor in this role. Leonard Mudie as the heartless Lord Jeffries, Olivia de Havilland as the firey Arabella Bishop, Basil Rathbone as the French buccaneer Levasseur... This is literally an unforgettable cast. And you won't soon forget the story of Peter Blood, Captain of the great ship Arabella, virtuoso swordsman, and undisputed master of the waters of the Spanish Main. [more...]

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