Do you remember the 1st Full Length Movie you saw in a Movie Theater??

[Stuart G]

My first was ..."14 Hours" ..1951 film about a man who was going to jump off a ledge. The whole film is about whether or not he is going to jump off this building...boring....boring...boring...Here is a review from IMBD.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043560/

[MaryMagdaline]

1. Mary Poppins

[CentralMass]

83. Same here. They showed Disney's The Sword And The Stone before it.

[redstatebluegirl]

2. Sound of music with my Grandma.

[JenniferJuniper]

3. Sound Of Music when I was four,

I only remember them being chased by Nazis. No memory of the music at all.

[CanonRay]

4. Bambi

I'm pretty sure.

[IphengeniaBlumgarten]

14. Me, too.

So upset by the forest fire that my Mom had to take me to the lobby.

[Heartstrings]

53. My first as well....

Cried......

[wishstar]

58. Yup, Bambi and not long after that the original Disney Cinderella

Saw both movies when they were re-released

[yardwork]

95. Same here. I was so traumatized by Bambi I cried during Cinderella too.

Our generation had it rough I tell you.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. NO, but saturday at 1:00 my friend and I would go to the movies at least

once a month.

Maybe twice.

Milk duds. Popcorn.
Coke.

007

Peter Sellers

Disney

Oh my

[rzemanfl]

6. Either Francis the Talking Mule or Martin and Lewis. Pre-1953. n/t

[Stuart G]

8. Yes, I remember Francis...how can you forget him?...With Donald O Connor..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041387/

There were several Francis movies... I think I saw the 2nd or 3rd..but they reissued them. and I did see the first one at a later date..I think

[rzemanfl]

18. It was a LONG time ago. n/t

[Cattledog]

7. Goldfinger.

[livetohike]

9. The Man in the Iron Mask. I was 5. Scared me to death.

[RKP5637]

10. Yes, "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein." 1948 n/t

[PJMcK]

11. Double feature of "Dr. No" and "From Russia With Love"

I was six years old and my dad and I were having a "guys weekend." We lived outside Chicago and we went to dinner at a diner where you sat at the counter and your food was delivered by a model train that circled the restaurant. I had a cheeseburger with fries and a coke and thought this was the coolest thing ever.

Then we went to the movies and I immediately loved James Bond! During the second film, there's a scene in a gypsy camp in Turkey where Bond has dinner around a campfire and a pretty girl does a belly dance for him. In a loud voice, I exclaimed, "Daddy! Are her pants going to fall off?!" The entire theater erupted in laughter!

More than fifty years later, it still gets to me! Here's the clip.

[Stuart G]

16. I saw that same double feature..I saw the two of them after "Goldfinger"

Goldfinger was the first Bond film I saw, then after that, I was hooked, and saw the two others after they were re released after the incredible success of "Goldfinger"....Yes, I have seen them all since then. and I might add that there is only one ........James Bond..... Sean Connery...is ........."James Bond"...

[PJMcK]

25. Only one James Bond: Sean Connery

I have to agree.

However, Daniel Craig's rendition is quite good and his characterization is more in line with Ian Fleming's spy in the original novels. Likewise, Connery's earlier films, perhaps up through "Thunderball," were more in line with the novels.

By the time Roger Moore came along, the films became silly with terrible double entendres, goofy gadgets and ridiculous plots. Although I've watched them, few of the subsequent films appealed to me until 2006's reboot of "Casino Royale." Although I approached the film skeptically, the chase scene in the film's opening was spectacular and the fight scenes were bloody and realistic. The plot closely followed the original novel and the rest of the cast and production were excellent. Craig has been a good actor for the series, IMHO.

[Doc_Technical]

12. "The Great Locomotive Chase"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Locomotive_Chase

[frazzled]

13. The Five Little Foys

I don't know if this was the first film I saw in a theater, but it's my first memory of seeing a film, however vague. It was 1955, so I would have been 5 years old. It was at the big movie-palace theater downtown, with the fancy curtains and gold plaster decorations. Maybe that's why it sticks in my mind. And something about vaudeville and kids dancing.

[Stuart G]

20. I saw it too...here is a link to that film...I remember ...Seven Little Foys.....

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048604/

It was a Bob Hope film...that is all I recall

[jpak]

15. 101 Dalmations

[nature-lover]

37. Me too!

[Freddie]

66. Yes me too!

I was 4. The idea of making fur coats from dogs had me very upset. Saw Pinocchio around the same time and had nightmares about them sending the “bad boys” away to an island. Damn Disney.

[silverweb]

17. "Elephant Walk"

I was very young and the only part I remembered for years was the elephants rampaging through the house and wrecking it. I was terrified, and my dad took me to the circus to see elephants that weren't wild and scary so I wouldn't be afraid anymore. I was also terrified of clowns, of course, but that's another story.

The next movie I remember seeing was Fantasia. i was still very young, but enjoyed that one.

[avebury]

19. Lawrence of Arabia in 1962.

I was a little kid and our parents dragged all three of us kids to see it. What do I remember of the movie?

Sand, lots and lots of sand.

The experience was totally lost on me. To this day I have never been able to watch it again.

[Stuart G]

35. Yep....I remember ..............much much tooooooo longggggggggggg!!!!

[LeftInTX]

71. Oh my!!!!!!

Omar Sharif said that women hated that movie.

I sat through it once. Sand, lots and lots of sand......

It drags......

[BlueTsunami2018]

21. Herbie Rides Again

1974.

[NBachers]

22. The first one I remember was 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in 1954.

It's still my favorite movie.

[chuckstevens]

23. Willy Wonk and the Chocolate Factory 1971

The Oompa Loompa scared me. I was 6.

[petronius]

24. The first ones I remember are Star Wars, and The Secret of NIMH

Although looking at (re-)release dates and considering my age it's possible that Song of the South came between those two...

[Stuart G]

30. Lucky ....Those are two great films. The Secret of NIMH..totally under rated..

Don Bluth's... first animated film..AND......Star Wars....(The New Hope) ...what a wonderful film to see...

I remember coming out of that one just feeling great...so happy the good guys won...(1977)

[tblue37]

26. "Babes in Toyland," 1961. nt

[MadCrow]

27. Snow White by Disney

[Phoenix61]

84. Me too!

[brucefan]

28. Jason and the Arganauts.

[kwassa]

120. Saw it. Loved it. The skelton battle ....

[Zoonart]

128. My first movie too...

and now I do Los Muertos art. Those skeletons really stuck with me. Ray Harryhausen was a genius.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

29. Lady & The Tramp! Saw it on my 3rd birthday.

Still one of my favorites!

[Stuart G]

33. You know about that one...if I recall...two words...It's fun...

[badhair77]

31. As a teenager it was either The Graduate or Funny Girl.

Huge Barbra Streisand fan. Before that my family went to drive-ins. Lots of Jerry Lewis movies, Absent Minded Professor, Flubber and all then.

[Va Lefty]

32. "Blackbeard's Ghost"

My Aunt took me. I was more interested in the drink machine that dropped a cup, then ice and then soda.

[kairos12]

34. The Guns of Navarone

[Ohiya]

73. Mine also!

[rickford66]

36. High Noon -1952

I had to be 6 when my parents took us to the local movie theater. Back then everybody walked to it.

[Stuart G]

136. High Noon is one of the greatest westerns ever made.

Few people note that it runs in what is real time That is the movie starts at about 10:30 am on the day when the event takes place..and ends after 12 Noon, High Noon... No, I will not give this away, it is one of the greatest dramas in movie history.

Here is a link for more information from IMBD...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044706/

Here is a link to some of the awards this film won:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044706/awards?ref_=tt_awd

Gary Cooper won an Oscar for Best Actor

[El Supremo]

38. Birth of a Nation

Naw, it was The General.

Hell, I was too young to remember!

[mainstreetonce]

39. The Wizard of Oz

..

[beveeheart]

65. A friend's mother took several of us 5 yr olds to see TWOO.

During the movie there was a terrible lightening storm which caused the electricity to go out during a very scary part (for this 5 yr old) and everyone had to leave the theater. I was in my 40's before I ever watched it again (due to leftover fear).

[Glamrock]

40. Star Wars!

I was six and it was awesome!

[enid602]

41. Lamar

A Summer Place at the Lamar Theater in Manhattan Beach, CA. I was still pretty young, and can remember a layer of smoke in the lobby at intermission.

[Bantamfancier]

42. Pinocchio

I was 6.
Scared the living hell out of me.

[El Supremo]

63. That may have been my first.

On its re-release in the early fifties.

[TuxedoKat]

88. LOL, me too

Scared me as well, I was about 4 or 5 I think. This was during a re-release.

[rainy]

43. Emmitt Kelly in The Clown and the Kids

[mtngirl47]

44. Blue Hawaii---and I loved Elvis the rest of his life!

[The Blue Flower]

45. Wizard of Oz

Amazing on the big screen to a 5-yr-old

[drray23]

46. Yes the first starwars movie in 1977.

I was 11 and I begged my parents to bring me to the theater to watch it which they did. I remember it as if it was yesterday.

[lkinwi]

47. West Side Story-My grandpa was supposed to take me to a cartoon at the other theater in town,

but it was sold out. I was ready to cry, so we went to the only other movie we could go to. He said that I watched the entire thing and said that I liked it.

[WSSlover]

135. Hi there, Ikinwl!

Glad you were able to go to a movie that you really ended up liking. it sounds as if the cartoon movie that you and your grandpa were going to attend being sold out was a blessing in disguise! Glad that you and your grandpa enjoyed West Side Story! Come to think if it, West Side Story is my all time favorite movie, hands down!

[wendyb-NC]

48. I saw "Sleeping Beauty", at the Palace Theater in Albany, New York.

My sister Lynne and I went with our parents. It was probably 1959. I was 4 and, she was 5, old enough, to be quiet when the movie was on. Our little sister, and brother stayed home, with grandma. We felt very special.

I remember we got all dressed up in matching dresses, and our winter coats, with leggings, snow boots, knitted scarves, hats and mittens. It was such a milestone in my preschool years.

The theater and many of its fixtures, (stage, movie screen, curtains from floor to ceiling) looked so big to me, for something indoors. It was ornate, too, out of another time and realm. My world was expanding.

[csziggy]

49. The earliest I remember was "The Man with the X-Ray Eyes"

Scared the stew out of me! I never liked Ray Milland after that, even though he did a lot of good, serious movies.

[rurallib]

50. Not for sure but "The Long Trailer" with Lucy and Desi sticks in my mind

My mother was a huge Lucy fan so she wanted to see it and took me one day while my brothers were in school.

[GP6971]

51. The one that I really remember

The Bridge on the River Kwai.

[pepperbear]

52. True Grit w/John Wayne in 1969

With the family at a drive-in in Alamogordo. We sat through it twice.

[argyl]

54. First one I really remember was Lawrence of Arabia.

[doc03]

55. Probably Old Yeller

[El Supremo]

61. Was it in a double feature with The Yearling?

Both fucked me up for years.

[doc03]

62. I don't know I would have been 9 years old. I also remember Davy Crockett

King of the Wild Frontier, it was in 1955. That may have been the first I was 7.

[mia]

56. Them

Saw it as a 7 year old living in the DC suburbs, the setting of the movie. I walked to the Saturday matinee with a bunch of neighborhood kids. It seemed so real.

[nocoincidences]

80. Me too! My parents would take me to the drive-in

and that is the first movie I remember seeing. Scared the poo out of me....but I loved it!

[Lunabell]

57. Camelot

I loved every minute if it. Still my favorite musical.

[Upthevibe]

59. To Kill a Mockingbird...

I was 5 years old! I was very lucky that my parents were quite Liberal.

[Ferrets are Cool]

60. Blazing Saddles

[Ilsa]

64. Might have been Doctor Zhivago. nt

[Luciferous]

67. The Little Mermaid with my grandparents

[shenmue]

68. Star Wars (1977)

[Sinistrous]

69. And now to date myself...

Gone With the Wind.

[LeftInTX]

70. Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty.

[Rhiannon12866]

72. According to my mother, it was Disney's Cinderella

And I was really scared of the cat!

[lastlib]

74. Absolutely! 2001: A Space Odyssey

Family always went to drive-ins before that. But that one had to be seen in a theater.

[lapucelle]

75. I don't remember!!

But I do remember seeing the trailer for "A Hard Days Night" before "Viva Las Vegas" started.

[rownesheck]

76. Krull!

weird 80s movie. I think the hero had some kind of boomerang weapon(?). I may have to try and watch that one again.

[helmedon1974]

87. Loved that movie. I think it was called a glave or something.

Atari had a game based on it.

[DUgosh]

77. Hatari!

At the Mission Drive In ( the screen is still there ) San Antonio 1962

[Lulu KC]

78. Auntie Mame

I cried when it was over and wouldn't leave the theatre. I still watch it annually!

[Phentex]

79. Song of the South in the early seventies...

we had a theatre that showed only kids movies and cartoons. The movie is old but they played it at least once a year.

[Runningdawg]

81. If a drive-in counts

The Incredible Journey - 1963 I started wailing so loud when they got lost my parents had to take me home. Then I cried for 3 days until they took me back and showed me they made it home LOL
First in a indoor theater - Darby O'Gill and The Little People

[Glorfindel]

82. The first one I remember is

"Bomba the Jungle Boy." I would have been three or four years old. By the time I was in high school, I had collected all the books and watched all the movies.

https://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BZGI5ZmU3NjctOTNiMS00YjE5LTg3YTEtZWVjZDVhOTEwZTljXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjgyNjA0NjM@._V1_UX182_CR0,0,182,268_AL_.jpg

[helmedon1974]

85. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Shaped my entire childhood.

[malthaussen]

86. No. But "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World..."

... (is that enough "Mads?&quot was one of the first. Watched it twice on the same quarter.

-- Mal

[raven mad]

89. A Hard Day's Night. n/t

[Thx]

90. Yours, Mine and Ours

I think it was the only time my father and I went to a theater.

Thx

[mithnanthy]

91. Rear Window

Alfred Hitchcock's suspense thriller. I was 6 and my babysitter took me to a Drive In to see it. Scary stuff but I liked it.

[llmart]

92. Westward Ho the Wagons

I think I was about 6 years old. I do believe it was the one and only movie I ever went to until I was about 16. My family didn't have much money, so I have no idea why we got to go to this movie. I think my parents dropped us off because I don't remember either one of them being there. I had older siblings and one of them may have been sent along to watch out for us. I just remember being so excited, the movie didn't interest me that much, the theater was elegant with ushers dressed in uniforms who would lead you to your seats.

When I was about 16 my father got free movie tickets from some job he was doing at this newfangled thing called a mall and we went to see It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. I don't think I went to another movie until I was 19 and on my own.

[AmandaRuth]

93. i don't remember the first movie, but the movie that really sticks out for me is

Funny Girl.

My mom, who was a single mother, dressed up her 5 children in their Sunday best, and we all went. Money was exceedingly tight in those days, so it was quite the splurge for my mommy - it must have meant a heck of a lot to her for all of us to see this movie. Very happy memory for me.

on edit, it was such a vivid happy memory that I looked up when the movie came out - 1968, so I was 10

[yardwork]

94. It might have been Bambi. I was horrified.

[Thx]

96. Back in 1973

and for the next couple years my best friend's mother used to take us to the theater pretty often, sometimes we'd go to Hollywood and see one in an old movie palace.

Let's see if I can remember all those movies, it's quite a list:

The Mechanic

The Sting

Paper Moon

The Poseidon Adventure

The Towering Inferno

Dirty Harry

Jaws

Westworld

Death Wish

The Omega Man

Soylent Green

Young Frankenstein

Blazing Saddles

The Missouri Breaks

Rollerball

For Pete's Sake

The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3...

On Any Sunday

Juggernaut

Chinatown

Earthquake

The Four Musketeers

Serpico

Enter The Dragon

The Man With The Golden Gun

Live and Let Die

The Day of The Jackal

Jeremiah Johnson

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The Stepford Wives

Electraglide in Blue

And the last time I was in a theater was probably 12 years ago.

It was great seeing all those movies in a theater, she was a very kind and generous woman and made sandwiches so we only had to buy drinks.

I don't know if I would go to a theater today, well, not without body armor.

Thx

[becca da bakkah]

97. It Was "Ben Hur", and it was WAAAAY too long...

....best nap I ever had. Before that the best show was watching my older sister and her boyfriend of the month make out in the front seat! That put me to sleep almost as fast as Ben Hur.

[hurl]

98. Live and Let Die

I was in elementary school and bugged Mom to take me and a friend to see Live and Let Die to see the world-record (at the time) boat jump. She didn't watch many movies and had no idea about James Bond. I think she was rather horrified - never would have taken me had she known.

[yellowdogintexas]

99. "Alice In Wonderland" Disney version

I may have been 4. It is a vague memory just little snatches here and there.

[bikebloke]

100. In Search of the Castaways

Probably not the first, but the earliest I remember. With Haley Mills and Maurice Chevalier (in the movie, not in the theater with me .

[Freethinker65]

101. Start the Revolution Without Me

[MattP]

102. The first movie i remember the whole movie is Tommy

The first theater i remember is the Pussycat i remember asking my dad what is that when i was like 3

[solara]

103. "10 Commandments"

Next one was "South Pacific"

[HipChick]

104. Jaws

I always wanted to tag along with my brother where ever he went...

[Thirties Child]

105. Snow White. I was four.

The second was GWTW, probably in 1943.

[CTyankee]

108. Probably mine, too.

GWTW came later when it was re-released. My mother adored that movie. I still like the performances but the story is so racist it just looks and feels like a relic.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

106. I think it might have been "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad."

I vaguely remember going to it but not much about it except that there were some cheesy monsters.

[Hav]

107. I'm not certain but E.T. is the earliest I can remember

E.T. and Neverending Story are the movies in cinema I remember from my early childhood. And they must have been in cinema a few years after their production date.

[Butterflylady]

109. The Wizard of Oz

Not the first one which debuted in 1939, but the one that came out in the early 50's that they colorized. It was amazing to see it on the big screen.

[IrishEyes]

110. Back to the Future

I was a little kid but I remember watching it with my family and really liking it. I can't remember seeing any films in the theater before that.

[RandomAccess]

111. No way to be sure, since I usually ended up asleep, but

they probably starred either John Wayne or Jeff Chandler.

A little later on I remember 12 Angry Men and even as a child was wildly impressed with it.

[Niagara]

112. Yes

My 1st full length movie was E.T. when I was 6. Good times!

[RobinA]

113. Does Pinocchio

count? If not, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. With my parents at a drive in.

[a kennedy]

114. I think mine was Darby O'Gill and the Little People......and Irish movie and it was kinda scary.

http://movies.disney.com/darby-o-gill-and-the-little-people

[Mendocino]

115. The Parent Trap

1961...yepp I'm old.

[OxQQme]

116. Dad had the hots for Dale Evans

Mom and dad both liked The Sons of the Pioneers, so Apache Rose was my first time in a movie theater when I was seven.
I honestly don't recall the story line but was told several times over the years at family re-unions.
I think my sister became a horse lover after this movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Rose

[Homer Wells]

117. Don't remember the title

But I remember it was one of those early 3-D sci fi films. Only remember that because of the cardboard red and blue glasses.

[KG]

118. Deep Throat

[Stuart G]

123. You have got to be kidding??...

[OriginalGeek]

119. The first one I remember is True Grit

I was 5 and specifically remember being disappointed that John Wayne was not Bruce Wayne. I thought my dad was taking me to a Batman movie.

But I liked westerns too and even at 5 (or maybe especially at 5) an afternoon out with my dad was pretty cool.

[3catwoman3]

121. Not sure, but it would have been a Disney flick, most likely. (Born in 1951)

We used to go to drive-ins a lot.

[patricia92243]

122. For 10 cents, I could watch a double feature and cartoon. So, it was some spaghetti western

that I have long since forgotten the name - just the type of movie.

[roamer65]

124. Star Wars second run in 1978.

[Blue_Tires]

125. The Muppet Movie

[Initech]

126. ET when I was 5.

[HopeAgain]

127. Snow White

Was really young and scared the piss out of me. Wouldn't go to a movie for another year.

[obietiger]

129. Snow White

I was five or six years old and thought it was amazing!!!

[WheelWalker]

130. The first one I can recall today is Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

[Clarity2]

131. The Legend of Boggy Creek

[Tommy_Carcetti]

132. Space Camp (1986)

Typical 80s "whiz-bang" kids adventure about a group of teenagers who accidentally, for some reason or another, get shot off into space in the Space Shuttle and have to pilot it back to earth. Starred Lea Thompson and a young Joaquin Phoenix. It sounds ridiculous in retrospect but watching it as a kid, I thought, "Yeah, that could totally happen."

That's the first one I remember sitting through. I do remember earlier my parents somehow dragging me along to the 1984 movie version of Bizet's Carmen but I don't think I was able to sit still through that one for what should have been obvious reasons.

[Boomerproud]

133. The Music Man and Who's Minding the Store.

It was a Sunday double feature at the RKO Palace Theatre in Columbus, OH in 1962.

[WSSlover]

134. yes!

My first full length movie(s) were Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , and The Monster that Challenged the World., when I was in the Second Grade.