Longest-running film.
From "The Village Voice" May7-13 2003, J.Hoberman review of "King of Hearts"
This cutie-pie be-in opened in the U.S. during the full flowering of hippiedom in the very Summer of Love ("The arena of the spectacle might just as well be Central Park," Andrew Sarris wrote in the Voice) and achieved bona fide cult status in the early '70s, evidently running for five years at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge, among other college towns. (In New York, King of Hearts succeeded the wildly successful Pink Flamingos as the Elgin's midnight attraction in January 1974, lasting a mediocre 14 weeks before being yanked for the redoubtable Freaks.)
For the record, the film opened at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge MA on Feb 10, 1971 and it ran there until Apr 13, 1976. And that is everyday for 5 years and 2 months, I believe that to be the longest run of a film in the USA. It is kind of unusual, "King of Hearts" was first shown in New York in June 1967, but the ad for the film in the Cambridge Chronicle in Feb 1971 announces its "New England premiere". share