The Liberty Theater
344 East Main Street
Dayton, Washington 99328
Phone:(509) 382-1380 info@libertytheater.org
Great
Films of the 1960's and 1970's All
titles presented on 35mm prints
as originally experienced on
the big screen!
December
2009
through May 2010
Always the second
Thursday of the month
at 7:30pm
Series Ticket Prices:
Individual - $30
Couples - $50
Individual movies available
at regular admission prices
Purchase your series
tickets at the theater or
buy them online here.
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December
10
7:30 pm
7:30pm
Runtime: 120 Minutes
Saturday
Night Fever
John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney,
Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Paul Pape 1977 Drama/Musical
Slice-of-life tale about a working-class
young Brooklyn Italian-American who
finds an escape from his mundane neighborhood
existence at the local discotheque,
where he is the "king of the dance
floor.
January
8
7:30 pm
7:30pm
Runtime: 127 Minutes
The
Sting
Paul Newman, Robert Redford,
Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston 1973 Action/Adventure
Two clever con artists arrange an elaborate
sting against a powerful crime lord
who murdered their friend.
Febuary
11 7:30pm Runtime:155 minutes
West
Side Story
Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn,
Rita Moreno, George Chakiris Drama/Musical 1961
The stage is set in New York's Upper
West Side in the 1950s, where the area's
slums are plagued by racial tensions
acted on by two rival gangs: the Puerto
Rican Sharks and the Caucasian Jets.
In the middle of this mess is young,
innocent Maria, a Puerto Rican seamstress
whose brother, Bernardo, is the leader
of the Sharks. Despite the warnings
of Anita, Bernardo's fiery girlfriend,
Maria falls in love with a young, hopeful
Polish boy, Tony, who used to belong
to the Jets, now headed by Riff. When
Tony, on Maria's urging, tries to stop
a rumble between the gangs, tragedy
ensues, marking their dedicated love
affair with violence and desperation.
Not
Rated
March
11 7:30pm Runtime:135
minutes
Close
Encounters of the Third Kind
Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut,
Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Cary Guffey Science Fiction 1977
Cableman Roy Neary is one of several
people who experience a close encounter
of the first kind, witnessing UFOs flying
through the night sky. He is subsequently
haunted by a mountain like image in
his head and becomes
obsessed with discovering what it represents,
putting severe strain on his marriage.
Meanwhile,
government agents around the world have
a close encounter of the second kind,
discovering physical evidence of otherworldly
visitors in the form of military vehicles
that went missing decades ago. Roy and
the agents both follow the clues they
have been given to reach a site where
they will have a close encounter of
the third kind: contact.
April
8 7:30pm
Runtime:161 minutes
The
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van
Cleef,
Aldo Giuffre, Mario Brega Western 1966
Blondie and Tuco are gunmen who admire
each other professionally but dislike
each other personally.
Encountering a group of dying soldiers,
Tuco learns the location of the graveyard
where a Confederate treasure is
buried, while Blondie learns the identity
of the exact grave. Joined by mercenary
drifter Angel Eyes, they cross the desert,
each of the desperadoes knowing half
the secret and each focusing his squinty
eyes on the $200,000 bounty.
May
13 7:30pm Runtime:120 minutes
Rocky
Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt
Young,
Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith Drama 1976
Rocky Balboa is a struggling boxer trying
to make the big time. Working in a meat
factory in Philadelphia for a pittance,
he also earns extra cash as a debt collector.
When heavyweight champion Apollo Creed
visits Philadelphia, his managers want
to set up an exhibition match between
Creed and a struggling boxer, touting
the fight as a chance for a "nobody"
to become a "somebody". The
match is supposed to be easily won by
Creed, but someone forgot to tell Rocky,
who sees this as his only shot at the
big time.