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On the Redford Theatre’s biggest party night of the year—the Saturday night screening of its Halloween movie—visitors came in almost every imaginable costume.

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“We have survived for 40 years, and we’re still going strong!”  David Martin’s announcement from the stage of the Redford Theatre on Sept. 22, 2007 was met with a strong burst of applause, on this evening when the Motor City Theatre Organ Society celebrated 40 years of organ concerts at the Redford.

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In the 20 years that I’ve regularly attended the Detroit Film Theatre, and the 10 years that I’ve visited the Michigan Theater and Redford Theatre, I’ve been lucky enough to enjoy many classic films, from silent movies like Buster Keaton’s The General (1927) to lively musicals like The Pirate (1948) to foreign language films like The Grand Illusion (1937).

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The different showtimes of movies at the Redford Theatre help you experience that theater in different ways.  A Sunday afternoon showing of the 1937 musical comedy Shall We Dance on Aug. 5, 2007 added another dimension to the happy memories of visitors to the Redford.

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You really cared about these people.  Over nearly three hours, the different stories of the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives flowed across the Redford Theatre screen, and when the movie ended, you felt privileged to be part of the experience. 

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“Future historians of the art of film will probably pause at the name of John Wayne only because he appeared in some of John Ford’s best Westerns; but it is a name which gives pause to everyone interested in the industry…during the 23-year period 1949-1972 there was only one year (58) when he was not one of the USA’s 10 top draws..,” wrote David Shipman in The Great Movie Stars: The Golden Years (1989).

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If this year’s summer blockbusters leave you muttering, “They don’t make ‘em like they used to,” the Detroit Movie Palaces have the perfect alternative.

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While watching Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window the other night at the Penn Theatre in downtown Plymouth (May 17, 2007), I reflected on how I’d also seen that classic 1954 mystery at all three Detroit Movie Palaces.

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My general interest in the Detroit Film Theatre, Michigan Theater and Redford Theatre began ten years ago this month, when I saw the most remarkable film I have ever had the privilege of viewing.

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Watching the Three Stooges at the Redford Theatre can be a real workout.  There’s the hearty belly laughs that make you throw your head back, giving you a quick glimpse of the starlit blue ceiling.  Then there’s the powerfully enthusiastic applause that follows each of the six Stooges short comedies that are shown at the Redford twice a year.

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