Which Double-Features You Saw As a Kid Do You Reproduce On Blu-ray In Your Home Theater? (1 Viewer)

[Dick]

Some that I can currently do (both films available on Blu-ray) are:

HAVE ROCKET WILL TRAVEL / GORGO

THE MUMMY (1959) / THE BAT (1959)

FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMEN / THE MUMMY'S SHROUD

PSYCHO (1960) / STALAG 17 (re-issues)

There are more, and I will add to this list as I recall them...

 

[Alan Tully]

In the UK, Mysterious Island was on a double bill with The Pirates Of Blood River & Jason & The Argonauts was supported by Siege Of The Saxons, to see them like that again would bring back some memories. Thinking about it, it was all double bills then, mostly the support was a cheap b/w little melodrama, we'd arrive at the cinema about half way through the support film, see the film we came to see & then see the support up to the point where we came in & then go. Ha, that would play with the mind of the people who made the support: their film would be seen second half first & then the first half two hours later!

 

[Matt Hough]

Breakfast at Tiffany's/Sabrina which Paramount reissued on a double bill after the smashing success of WB's My Fair Lady.

Many Bond double features. I THINK I saw From Russia with Love paired with Dr. No after the huge hit of Goldfinger but it might have been after Thunderball.

 

[bujaki]

We didn't have many double features because we had a different feature every day. However, one double feature that does stick in my mind for its awfulness is: An Affair to Remember and Snow White and the Three Stooges. Keep in mind that I was not yet a teen and that I hated, and still do, the Stooges.

 

[Dick]

Breakfast at Tiffany's/Sabrina which Paramount reissued on a double bill after the smashing success of WB's My Fair Lady.

Many Bond double features. I THINK I saw From Russia with Love paired with Dr. No after the huge hit of Goldfinger but it might have been after Thunderball.

Yes, I also saw the first two Bonds on a double bill. I had missed DR. NO on its initial run, and saw FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE a second time with it, and liked the latter rather better.

Additions:

CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN w/ HORROR OF DRACULA

PATTON & M*A*S*H (pretty long program)

HARD DAY'S NIGHT/HELP!/YELLOW SUBMARINE

THE REIVERS & A MAN CALLED HORSE

If I expanded this post to include DVD's, the list would be almost endless...so I won't.

 

[revgen]

Double features were going out of style when I was a kid. The only one I ever saw was Gremlins and Gremlins 2 together.

 

[Jeffrey:K]

I grew up in the 1970's. In my town back then only the local drive-in regularly showed double features. Some of the ones I remember seeing are The Sting / Showdown (ca. 1974) and The Daring Dobermans / Creature with the Blue Hand (ca. 1973). I went to the drive-in on numerous other occasions, but I rarely remember sitting through both features.

The last time I ever attended a drive-in movie was in early 1982. The program was Fort Apache - the Bronx / Southern Comfort. After that program the drive-in closed down for good.

 

[Tony Bensley]

We didn't have many double features because we had a different feature every day. However, one double feature that does stick in my mind for its awfulness is: An Affair to Remember and Snow White and the Three Stooges. Keep in mind that I was not yet a teen and that I hated, and still do, the Stooges.

That's certainly a most odd double feature pairing!

Regarding the Three Stooges, SNOW WHITE AND THE THREE STOOGES (1961) is reviled even by many of their hard core fans.

CHEERS!

 

[Will Krupp]

Breakfast at Tiffany's/Sabrina which Paramount reissued on a double bill after the smashing success of WB's My Fair Lady.

(although at first glance I thought TIFFANY'S was part of the kiddie matinee and did a double take!! lol)

 

[BRAD1963]

Earthquake and Airport 1975 recently.

 

[Will Krupp]

I THINK I saw From Russia with Love paired with Dr. No after the huge hit of Goldfinger but it might have been after Thunderball.

It may have been both but the first time (I think) was the summer of 1965, right smack in between both of the newer releases....

 

[Matt Hough]

(although at first glance I thought TIFFANY'S was part of the kiddie matinee and did a double take!! lol)

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I remember that ad like it was yesterday. I begged my mother to drive me to the theater in Charlotte that was playing this since I had never seen either film, and she so lovingly did but did her own thing for the 3+ hours I was inside.

When I came out, I begged her to take me to the nearest record store so I could buy Mancini's score LP.

 

[Matt Hough]

It may have been both but the first time (I think) was the summer of 1965, right smack in between both of the newer releases....

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You are bringing back my teen years like there's no tomorrow! Thanks so much!

 

[Alan Tully]

I saw Dr. No & From Russia With Love as a double bill in 1965 in the UK, I went with a school mate & two girls (wow!), the first time I took a girl to the cinema (I was 14). The thing is, these days I'm not really up to seeing a double bill, one film & I've had it.

 

[Stephen_J_H]

Star Wars/The Empire Strikes Back. Saw these in the largest theatre in town in 1982.

 

[MatthewA]

I love how the poster for Airport 1975 puts Charlton Heston and Helen Reddy at opposite ends of each other. The Castro in San Francisco had that as the second bill of a triple feature with 1936's San Francisco and 1980's Airplane! last year.

 

[Garysb]

Not exactly a double feature but a sneak preview where you could see the regular feature ether before or after the preview. The regular feature was Rocky and preview was Annie Hall .


Double features were shown during Oscar season to re release films nominated for Oscars. I remember one double feature for two actresses nominated for Best Actress The Way We Were and Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams. The actress were Joanne Woodward and Barbra Streisand. Neither won. The winner was Glenda Jackson for " A Touch Of Class"

 

[Dick]

I grew up in the 1970's. In my town back then only the local drive-in regularly showed double features. Some of the ones I remember seeing are The Sting / Showdown (ca. 1974) and The Daring Dobermans / Creature with the Blue Hand (ca. 1973). I went to the drive-in on numerous other occasions, but I rarely remember sitting through both features.

The last time I ever attended a drive-in movie was in early 1982. The program was Fort Apache - the Bronx / Southern Comfort. After that program the drive-in closed down for good.

There was an atmosphere to Drive-In's of the 50's and 60's that few current theaters can replicate. Sure, there were mosquitoes and bad food at the concession and (before the FM thing) shrill and tinny sound from those window speakers that you might accidentally drive away with. But, you know, you had the stars above you and grass and dirt below you, and regardless of whether or not you were there to actually watch the movie (with or without your kids in their jammies with footies) or you were there for a little intimacy in the privacy of your car, there was an experience to be had at drive-ins that could not otherwise be had in any other venue.

I sorely miss this experience. In my state of Maine, there are precious few such theaters left, but there are a few. It's just not the same. You don't get the psychotronic double features or the Hammer double features or even the Disney double features anymore. You just get the current Michael Bay-type crap and the food at the concession ain't any better than it used to be -- just ten times more expensive.

 

[Garysb]

The trailer for the Bond Double Feature of Dr, No and From Russia With Love


The trailer for the Bond Double Feature of Goldfinger and Dr. No

The trailer for the Bond Double Feature of Thunderball and You Only Live Twice.



I think I saw most, if not all, the Sean Connery UA Bond films as double features.

 

[Thomas T]

Two that come to mind off the top of my head, both at the Ritz Theater in Hayward, California: Bullitt (1968) in a first run engagement with Wait Until Dark (1967) as a second feature and Goldfinger (1964) in its first run engagement with a second feature of Invitation To A Gunfighter (1964). The latter set a record. Normally a movie changed every week and if it was a big hit, it played for 2 weeks. Goldfinger played for 12 weeks!!!