First film(s) you're aware of seeing in theater

Diamonds Are Forever. I was 4.

The Great Race, 1964. I was 10. Hilarious.

Probably my first movie was Fantasia (1940) though five or six years after it was released. Kind neighbors took me and I ruined their and other patrons' enjoyment by demanding explanations in a loud voice throughout.

Uncle Silas (1947), known as The Inheritance in the US. Absolutely terrified me and the very name Silas gave me the creeps until adulthood.

Hue and Cry (also 1947)

No Room at the Inn (1948). I do not know if one can experience first sexual stirrings at age eight, but all I remembered about it afterwards was one of the girls appeared wearing only knickers.

My father, who in the immediate post-war years was something of a socialist like the majority of Brits at that time, took me to see Bicycle Thieves (1948). The urinating scene caused a mild sensation in prudish England. It remained my only "Art-House" movie (though of course it was not one really) until I approached adulthood.

By the time I was nine my parents were taking me to the cinema two or three times a week. At that time you always got a B-film as well for your money. (I think the vogue for double A features came a decade later when the movies were trying anything to compete with TV). A lot of the movies then were Film Noir (although none of us knew that until years later when those kind French intellectuals explained it to us). I was particularly impressed with Build My Gallows High (1947) called Out of the Past in the US. I settled on gangster as a career choice but in fact it turned out that my first job was as a librarian. Still my favorite American movie though.

It was John Paul Jones in 1959, the same year it was released.

I'm saddened to think that this will be the last of about ten times I've answered this question.

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Mr Smith: Like the rose trampled on the ground, you took the fall

My parents were big drive-in theater fans and we went a lot as a family, so my first theater experience was probably a western. Many westerns came to my west Texas home town. High Noon (1952) came around quite a bit. It was one of my father's favorite movies so I am sure I saw that early on. For some reason, I remember Mickey Rooney in the bland programmer My Outlaw Brother (1951) (5.2 rating).

The first I remember seeing without my parents is Disney's Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955). I was nine or ten. and was dropped off with friends to catch a matinee. I have a strong memory of that. The Davy Crockett three-part series from the "Disneyland" TV show had been an enormous hit and spawned a pop culture craze. When the three hour mini-series (before that term had been invented) was edited into a 90-minute movie, that, too, was a huge hit. Every kid in America HAD to see it or die.

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“I know that, in spite of the poets, youth is not the happiest season"

All Dogs Go to Heaven.

I would have been 3 1/2 at the time.




That is all.

Pocahontas, at age 6.

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London,I am certainly envious of your first viewings.I love that era of British films.As for the Bicycle Thieves-excellent stuff. Something tells me we share a love of many of the same films.

My first memory of going to the cinema, or "the pictures" as we would say, was The Ten Commandments.I still remember the spectacle of the parting of the Red Sea.

"Barney Sloane...That's my new name...My old one's a little more Italian."