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Sunday February 22nd, 2009
Sunday March 22nd, 2009
Saturday Evening October 24th,2009

Films from the 2007 season
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Films from the 2005 season

Sunday February 22nd 2009

The Navigator
A side splitting comedy feature film from Buster Keaton

Rollo (Buster Keaton) decides to sail to Honolulu after Betsy (Katherine McGuire) spurns his proposal of marriage. Unfortunately, happless Rollo boards the wrong ship, The Navigator that just happens to be owned by Betsy's father. Betsy too finds her way to the The Navigator looking for her father, but the ship is stolen by dastardly spies then cut adrift before Rollo and Betsy become aware of each other's presence on board.

Cannibals, suspected ghosts, a divers suit, and a submarine all contribute to the hilarious situations in this amazingly inventive comedy classic.

Also on the progam is comedy short Cops in which Buster manages to get himself chased by the entire police force.

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Sunday March 22nd 2009

Grandma's Boy
A feature length comedy starring Harold Lloyd




Harold is a meek, small-town boy afraid of a bully who is his rival for the affections of a girl. When a posse is formed to hunt down the robber of the local jewelry store, Grandma gives him a good luck charm that gives him courage to go after the robber and to confront his rival in romance.

Also on the program is short Putting The Pants On Philip
with Laurel & Hardy. Ollie attempts to get his nephew Stan, fresh from Scotland, out his kilts and into a pair of pants.


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Saturday Evening October 24th 2009

The Phantom Of The Opera
The original silent classic from 1925

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The Phantom (Lon Chaney Sr.) horribly disfigured by fire, lives in secret in the deep recesses below the Paris Opera House. But when he falls in love with the beautiful young opera singer, Christine (Mary Philbin) he becomes aware of his intense loneliness and isolation. In desparation he carries her off to his lair where he asks only thing - never to remove his mask.

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