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We’re celebrating one of the great Hollywood directors at Super-8 Movie Madness next Tuesday, April 3rd with Super-8 Alfred Hitchcock Movie Madness !!!

We’ll be showing condensed (18 minute) versions of several of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest films on Super-8 sound film projected on a big screen. They are: 18-minute condensed versions of North By Northwest, The Birds, Psycho, Frenzy, and Family Plot, a Hitchcock Trailer Reel, a Psycho Promo Reel, a The Birds Promo reel. The non-Hitchcock movies we’ll be showing April 3rd are the Hammer Horror shocker Lust For A Vampire, The Three Stooges in Three Sappy People, The Guinness Book Of World Records, the 1936 Sci-Fi epic Things To Come, and the 1945 horror film Dead Of Night.

Cover charge is a mere $3.00 and the show begins at 8pm. We’ll have Alfred Hitchcock trivia with prizes, and, as usual, there will be lots of posters and T-Shirts and stuff given away.

It’s always a good time to read about director Alfred Hitchcock and expect a lot of attention on the Master of Suspense in the upcoming months as there are two films currently in production about him. Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho (expect a title change on that one) based in the book by Steve Rebello, is in pre-production with Sacha Gervasi (Anvil! The Story Of Anvil) directing and an outstanding cast attached. Anthony Hopkins has signed on to play Hitch, Scarlett Johansson is cast as Janet Leigh, Jessica Biel will be playing Vera Miles, British actor James D’Arcy is Tony Perkins, and Helen Mirren will play Alma Reville (Mrs Hitchcock). The other Hitchcock film in the works is The Girl produced by The BBC that will premiere later this year on HBO. The Girl focuses on the love/hate relationship between Hitchcock (played by Toby Jones...

Super-8 Children’S Cancer Fundraiser Movie Madness is December 6th. Super-8 Movie Madness is teaming up with Roger’s Reels and The National Children’s Cancer Society for the next big show December 6th at The Way out Club. The cover charge is $4.00 and all of that money will be donated to the The National Children’s Cancer Society to help find a cure for cancer in kids.

Roger will be bringing by three 16mm prints from his collection to share. They are: The Little Rascals short A Lad And A Lamp, the episode Superman Gets Married from the ’50s Superman TV show starring George Reeves, and The Munsters episode “John Doe Munster”. The Super-8 Sound films (condensed from features, they average 15 minutes in length) to also be projected on a large screen December 6th are: Burt Reynolds in Smokey And The Bandit, This Island Earth, Tony Curtis in The Boston Strangler,...

“Super-8 Movie Madness 2” Night at the Way Out Club will be held on Tuesday November 3 from 8pm to Midnight. The cover charge is a bargain at a measly $2.00.The first Super-8 Movie Madness was a big hit, so we’re going to do it the first Tuesday of every month. If you’re not familiar with the madness, here’s a brief rundown: Remember (before video tapes) the Super-8 films they used to sell in the 1950’s and 60’s that were condensed versions of features? In the 1970’s they sold Sound versions of these films and 16 of these will be projected on a large screen at the Way Out Club (they average about 15 minutes each).

Condensed versions of the following films will be screened November 3: The Three Stooges in Three Sappy People, Marlon Brando in The Wild One, The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad, Alien, Joan Crawford in Straight-jacket, The French Connection,...