THE SCREENING ROOM
A year-by-year, film-by-film history of 70-millimeter wide gauge exhibition in Southern California
Compiled by Michael Coate and William Kallay
Longest-Running 70mm Engagements in L.A.
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these record-holding, long-running
128 weeks:
Around The World In Eighty Days
(Carthay Circle)
117 weeks:
The Sound Of Music
(Fox Wilshire/Carthay Circle)
103 weeks:
2001: A Space Odyssey
(Warner Hollywood/Beverly Hills)
98 weeks:
Ben-Hur
(Egyptian)
79 weeks:
Doctor Zhivago
(Paramount)
72 weeks:
Cleopatra
(Pantages)
68 weeks:
My Fair Lady
(Egyptian)
67 weeks:
It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
(Cinerama Dome)
61 weeks:
Funny Girl
(Egyptian)
61 weeks:
Spartacus
(Pantages)
58
weeks:
Fiddler On The Roof
(Fox Wilshire)
58 weeks:
West Side Story
(Chinese)
56 weeks:
The Bible
(Beverly)
56 weeks:
Gone With The Wind,
'67 re-issue (Carthay Circle)
52 weeks:
Hawaii
(Egyptian)
52
weeks:
Oklahoma!
(United Artists)
52 weeks:
Oliver! (
51 weeks:
Oklahoma!
(Egyptian)
45 weeks:
Lawrence Of Arabia
(Stanley-Warner)
44 weeks:
Grand Prix
(Cinerama Dome)
44 weeks:
South Pacific
(Egyptian)
43 weeks:
The Greatest Story Ever Told
(Cinerama Dome)
41 weeks:
Hello, Dolly!
(Chinese)
41 weeks:
Ryan's Daughter
(Beverly Hills)
41 weeks:
The Sand Pebbles
(Fox Wilshire)
39 weeks:
Mutiny On The Bounty
(Egyptian)
35 weeks:
Paint Your Wagon
(Cinerama Dome)
35 weeks:
Song Of Norway
(Cinerama Dome)
35 weeks:
Tora! Tora! Tora!
(Pantages)
33 weeks:
Doctor Dolittle
(Paramount)
32 weeks:
Can-Can
(Carthay Circle)
30 weeks:
Becket
(Stanley-Warner)
30 weeks:
Exodus
(Fox Wilshire)
29 weeks:
Airport
(Hollywood Pacific)
29 weeks:
El Cid
(Carthay Circle)
29 weeks:
Ice Station Zebra
(Cinerama Dome)
28 weeks:
Porgy And Bess
(Carthay Circle)
27 weeks:
The Agony And The Ecstasy
(Carthay Circle)
27 weeks:
Battle Of The Bulge
(Cinerama Dome)
26 weeks:
The Hallelujah Trail
(Warner Hollywood)
24 weeks:
Khartoum
(Cinerama Dome)
23 weeks:
Marooned
(Egyptian)
23 weeks:
Patton
(Pantages/Beverly Hills)
23 weeks:
The Shoes Of The Fisherman
(Carthay Circle)
22 weeks:
Nicholas And Alexandra
(Beverly)
21 weeks:
Star!
(Fox Wilshire)
20 weeks:
Darling Lili
(Cinerama Dome)
20 weeks:
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
(Fox Wilshire)
20 weeks:
Sweet Charity
(Pantages)
19 weeks:
The Big Fisherman
(Vogue)
19 weeks:
The Great Race
(Pantages)
19 weeks:
Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying
Machines (Beverly)
18 weeks:
The Alamo
(Carthay Circle)
17 weeks:
Man Of La Mancha
(Fox Wilshire)
17 weeks:
Sleeping Beauty
(Fox Wilshire)
16 weeks:
Circus World
(Warner Hollywood Cinerama)
16 weeks:
Far From The Madding Crowd
(Fox Wilshire)
16 weeks:
Finian's Rainbow
(Pantages)
16 weeks:
Lord Jim
(Stanley-Warner)
15 weeks:
The Blue Max
(Beverly)
15 weeks:
The Cardinal
(Egyptian)
15 weeks:
Scent Of Mystery
(Ritz)
14 weeks:
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
(Chinese)
13 weeks:
Cinerama's Russian Adventure
(Warner Hollywood Cinerama)
13 weeks:
Is Paris Burning?
(Warner Hollywood)
11 weeks:
Mediterranean Holiday
(Warner Hollywood Cinerama)
And some not-so-long-running engagements...
9 weeks:
55 Days At Peking
(Beverly)
8 weeks:
Cheyenne Autumn
(Pantages)
8 weeks:
The Fall Of The Roman Empire
(Paramount)
7 weeks:
Black Tights
(Four Star)
7 weeks:
Solomon And Sheba
(Fox Wilshire)
6 weeks:
Half A Sixpence
(Chinese)
Special Consideration — Titles from the multiple engagement, saturation-booking, blow-up era...
74 weeks: Raiders Of The Lost Ark
68 weeks: Star Wars
44 weeks: Apocalypse Now
39 weeks: The Empire Strikes Back
33 weeks: Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
28 weeks: Top Gun
27 weeks: E.T.
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