Odessa, Texas: October 9, 1955.

While doing some research on George Sherman’s The Treasure Of Pancho Villa (1955), I came across The Odessa American from October 9, 1955. What was playing around town was incredible.

Ector: The Treasure Of Pancho Villa
Scott Theater: Night Of The Hunter 
Rio Theater (next door to the Scott): The Big Combo
Twin Terrace Drive-In: Wichita and New Orleans Uncensored
Twin Cactus Drive-In: The Seven Little Foys and Coroner Creek
Broncho Drive-In: Las Vegas Shakedown and The End Of The Affair
Twin-Vue Drive-In: The Seven Little Foys and The Denver And Rio Grande

You could spend your night with Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Robert Mitchum or Rory Calhoun. If all that wasn’t enough, you could head to the Odessa High School field house on the 11th for The Western Revue Of 1955 with Lash LaRue and “Fuzzy” St. John in person — or wait a couple more days for Elvis Presley (“with Scotty and Bill”), Johnny Cash, Wanda Jackson and Porter Wagoner.

By the way, the Ector Theater was restored in 2001 and runs classic movies from time to time. I love Texas.

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50s Westerns Blu-ray News #82: More Blu-rays From Olive Films.

I figured it’d be years before relatively minor films started cropping up on Blu-ray. Olive Films is proving me wrong.

They’ve recently announced that Run For Cover (1954), Silver City (1951) and Denver And Rio Grande (1952) — which they’d already slated for DVD — are coming on Blu-ray as well.

The first, of course, is a Nick Ray picture. The other two are from Byron Haskin. Thanks to all who passed this tip along.

 

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