Getting turned away from the cinema

[billy bentley]

I remember getting turned away from Saturday morning pictures. It was shut because Churchill had died, I think the funeral might have been taking place.

[Steve Crook]

name='christoph404']I remember the first "Crocodile Dundee" film being very popular and large queues of people at the cinemas in London.Many were turned away and there were actually ticket touts offering inflated price tickets to people near the back of the queue! I went to see "Young Frankenstein" at a small cinema in Stirling when I was school age and was told that the cinema was full after waiting in the pissing rain for 40 minutes and the same thought did occur to me, why didn't someone working at the cinema make a quick count of the people in the queue which would have taken minutes and simply inform all those beyond a certain poit that there was no chance of getting in! Grrrrr!

Because some people might not like it and might walk out thus freeing up some seats.



But they should tell those beyond a certain point in the queue that there's very little chance of them getting in. That's what they used to do at our local cinemas



Steve

[batman]

name='Steve Crook']Because some people might not like it and might walk out thus freeing up some seats.



But they should tell those beyond a certain point in the queue that there's very little chance of them getting in. That's what they used to do at our local cinemas



Steve

They used to place those wooden boards at the point of not getting in.

[davidb]

not sure about being turned away because it was full ,but i remember lots of school friends and their daring missions to sneak into an x ,those confessions of films ,various late 70s /early 80s horrors etc . lots of "might have been " tales on monday morning if only the usherette with the fag in her gob hadnt spotted them !

[john audley]

Here is an amusing true story. We went to see The Poseidon Adventure at a small cinema at Burnham on Sea in 1972 when the film was on release. A nice warm evening with one hour to spare before the doors open so we decided to park the car on the cinema car park and walk along the sea front.

I had not locked the door when out comes the manager angrily demanding that I move the car! I told him that we were coming to the cinema but his reply was 'they all say that'. He eventually took my promise to return and I looked for him when purchasing the tickets and he then changed tack.

No wheel clamping in those days.

A good film we thought at the time.

[alan french]

Hi.

I remember as a child during the school holidays queuing up to see Walt Disney's Cinderella at the Luxor cinema in Hemel Hempstead. A member of staff came out and allowed so many in. of course those who could not get in for that performance moaned. I remmber my mother did in particular, as two grown men were allowed in and a lot children were not. PS I did see it eventually.

Alan French.

[bhowells]

I got turned away from a Burt Reynolds film when I was 17, I looked young for my age anyay, but I was wearing some patform shoes, I must have looked a bit like Fred Gwynne in the Munsters.



Donna, there is a website called cinema treasures which lists cinema past and present all around the world, its an American site, but you will be able to locate your old Odeon in Glasgow, there might even be a picture of it and you may be able to post a comment on the site.



The Theatres trust site which lists theatres past and present is another great site for theatre lovers.

[orpheum]

I couldnot get into the Rex(now Phoenix) in the 1950s to see Snow White aND tHE seven dwarfs

[scholes]

1974. Went to see 'the flesh eaters' an 18 cert. Got turned away.

Went a couple of days later and got in courtesy of an elderly female on the counter, who I swear was short sighted.

[christoph404]

name='alan french']Hi.

I remember as a child during the school holidays queuing up to see Walt Disney's Cinderella at the Luxor cinema in Hemel Hempstead. A member of staff came out and allowed so many in. of course those who could not get in for that performance moaned. I remmber my mother did in particular, as two grown men were allowed in and a lot children were not. PS I did see it eventually.

Alan French.

It should have been women and children first.

[alan french]

Hichristoph404.

Yes. I agree. The people in queue said the same thing.



Alan French.