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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


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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.

 


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