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The Film Programs of the Detroit Film Theatre, Michigan Theater, and Redford Theatre
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Looking Back
June 1981
Step back in time to see what area movie theaters were presenting in June 1981. Film titles are linked to the Internet Movie Database.
For more information about these theaters, see Cinema Treasures or Water Winter Wonderland.
With
the Detroit Film Theatre on summer vacation, art film lovers enjoyed the
Australian film Breaker
Morant at the Maple 1-2-3 in Bloomfield Hills and at the Ann Arbor
Theater (5th and Liberty). Also showing at the Maple was the Russian film
Oblomov,
while the Ann Arbor Theater screened a popular film from the most recent
DFT season—Bye
Bye Brazil.
At
the Michigan Theatre, the Classic Film Theatre handled all of the programming
in June 1981. The spotlight hit directors Francois Truffaut (The
Wild Child (1970), The
Man Who Loved Women (1977) and Two
English Girls (1971)) and Alfred Hitchcock (The
Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The
39 Steps (1935) and Secret
Agent (1936)).
Double
bills of films starring prominent current actors also were featured at
the Michigan. Al Pacino starred in Serpico
(1973) and Dog
Day Afternoon (1975), while Gene Wilder appeared in Silver
Streak (1976) and The
Producers (1968).
On
June 12, the Redford presented Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in The
Girl of the Golden West (1938). Two weeks later, Basil Rathbone
was on the case in Sherlock
Holmes and the Scarlet Claw (1944) and Sherlock
Holmes Faces Death (1943). A Giant Garage Sale at the Redford
on June 5 and 6 promised "Hundreds of Bargains!"
All
of these theaters tried their best to compete with the flood of new summer
movies, which included For
Your Eyes Only, The
Cannonball Run, Superman
II and (biggest of all) Raiders
of the Lost Ark.
