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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.
Get a load of these record-holding, long-running Southern California
engagements.
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! (Beverly)
51 weeks: Camelot (Cinerama Dome)
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)
24 weeks: King Of Kings (Egyptian)
23
weeks: Krakatoa East Of Java (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)
0
weeks: Heaven's Gate (Century Plaza)
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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