Past movies
Sat 19 Nov 2011 - "The Titfield Thunderbolt"
at 7.30pm at Travellers' Rest *
"The Titfield Thunderbolt"
1953 - British, colour, 4****. Directed by Charles Crichton
with Stanley Holloway, John Gregson and Sid James.
Ealing comedy about villagers who are attached to their railway and run it themselves in competition with the local bus. Lovely cinemaphotography. Script by T.E.B. Clarke.
Screens Sat 19 Nov at 7.30pm at Travellers' Rest Private EMPIRE-THEATRE 200m down the Joel Road from the Crowlands intersection towards Stawell.
Bookings essential. Call Bryan 0407 348 563
If you do book a seat and can't come - please let us know - since we now operate a waiting list.
Sat 17 Sep 2011 "I'm All Right Jack"
A British film made in 1959, produced and directed by the Bolting Brothers
(Roy married Haley Mills) starring a virtual 'who's who' of British comedy -
Ian Carmichael, Terry Thomas, Peter Sellars, Richard Attenborough,
Margaret Rutherford, Dennis Price and Irene Handl.
Sellars is wonderful.
See "I'm Alright Jack" at the Empire Private Theatre - Travellers Rest, Crowlands - just 200m down the Stawell Road from the intersection.
Saturday September 17th at 7.30.
Bookings essential - 0407 348 563.
Sat 16 Jul 2011 Jailhouse Rock
7.30pm Crowlands Hall and entry for members is FREE!
Join for FREE at the door.
Our winter screening
Box Office and drinks available from 7pm.
Bring a cushion and a rug.
Hall will be heated.
Screening on real film will be "Jailhouse Rock" made in 1957 running 96 minutes and a 3 star
movie featuring Elvis Presley as Vince Everett who is serving a one-year jail sentence for
manslaughter.
While in the big house, his cellmate, a former country singer, introduces him to the record business. Everett takes to it so well that he decides to become a singer when he gets out.
However, he is quickly disillusioned by the record business. But with the help of a new friend, he
decides to form his own label, and soon becomes an overnight sensation. But when he becomes a
superstar, will his desire for fame and money cause him to forget the people who got him there?
All the songs are good and the "Jailhouse Rock" number is just stunning--easily one of the best
choreographed musical numbers ever caught on screen.
Sat 25 Jun 2011 Golden Crow Short Film Festival 
4.30pm and 5.45pm. The first biennial Golden Crow Short Film Festival will be held at Travellers' Rest, Crowlands. See entry details
AGM - the Annual General Meeting of the Crowlands Film Society.
Hear what is happening and be a part of what is planned.
You don't have to join the committee!
But you can have a say in our future.
And we want to be the film society that you want us to be.
So, be at Travellers' Rest on Saturday June 25 at 5pm (before the Short Film Festival).
Sat 9 Apr 2011 North by Northwest
7.15pm Travellers’ Rest Private Theatre, Crowlands
Plus a Batman and Robin serial - chapter 1 and a Donald Duck cartoon
Sat Jan 15 2011 Blossoms in the dust
The distributor was unable to supply a copy of “High Noon”.
The print had been loaned to a society in New Zealand and can't be returned in time.
So a substitute film had to be found.
And rising from the western dust is........”Blossoms in the Dust”!
This is a lovely 1941 Technicolor film based on a true story.
It tells of Edna Glagney who established a home for unwanted children.
"There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents" says
Greer Garson, in this wonderful movie.
She really does a great job portraying Edna Gladney.
Nominated for best picture – this film is not to be missed.
See it at the Crowlands Hall on Saturday January 15th at 7.15.
Cancelled HIGH NOON - Gary Cooper/Grace Kelly
at the Crowlands Hall, at 7.15pm.
Box Office opens at 6.30.
Pre-show drinks and supper as usual.
Invite your friends - dress for the West* (if you wish).
Bring a cushion.
Come and hear our improved sound and upgraded sightlines.
* Prize for best dressed
Fri 15 Oct 2010
CASABLANCA - perhaps the best picture ever made.
Proving VERY popular!
The 7.15 session is now full and bookings are now open for the 5pm session.
Call Bryan on 0407 348 563 if you would like to book.
Plenty of seats available at this stage.
Thu 15 Apr 2010 The Seven Year Itch
Screening at Travellers Rest – Crowlands
6.30pm The Seven Year Itch
Our short Marilyn Monroe season concludes with an Empire Gold Class screening at Traveller's Rest Private Cinema.
Seating is limited – so be sure and book!
A new screen, projector and improved sound will enhance your viewing pleasure! You'll see.........
After sending his wife and son to Maine to escape the sweltering summer heat of New York City, 38- year old Richard Sherman meets a 22-year-old blonde television commercial spokesmodel, who is renting the apartment directly above him.
Despite recent paranoia about becoming unfaithful (he is reading a book his company is going to publish about a "7-Year Itch"; which claims a significant proportion of men have extra-marital affairs after seven years of marriage) Richard invites the girl for a drink after she accidentally knocks over a tomato plant from the balcony above and almost hits him. He fantasizes in hilarious scenes of himself seducing the woman as well as thinking about his wife having an affair on her retreat with their neighbour.
Sun 14 Mar 2010 Committee Meeting
Committee members are invited to meet on at 4pm at Traveller's Rest to discuss the year ahead.
Sat 16 Jan 2010
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Crowlands Hall, Box Office open from 6.30pm
7.30pm Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - Sophia Loren
A
n Italian/French co-production made in 1963, in colour & CinemaScope.
Stories about three very different women and the men they attract. Adelina sells black-market cigarettes in Naples, is married to the unemployed Carmine, and faces a jail sentence. She can avoid it as long as she's pregnant. Several years and seven children later, Carmine is exhausted, so jail looks inescapable, as does her contempt for Carmine.
In Milan, Anna drives a Rolls, is bored, and picks up a writer. She talks dreamily of running off with him until he dents her car; that gets her emotional attention.
Mara, a Roman call girl, turns the head of a naive seminarian, prompting a run-in with his granny and a vow of abstinence. Mara's fizzy lover from Bologna grows impatient.
Directed by Vittorio de Sica & starring Marcello Mastroianni & Sophia Loren. Judith Crist (the famous film critic) says,”One begins to see, amid the sunsets & sunrises & Roman rooftops, the sheer venality of the creation, the cynical circus thrust upon us on the assumption that breasts & bodies & fornication are all that these leading lights of the Italian cinema need to provide to keep us from baying at the moon”. (Makes me want to see it – Ed.)
Oscar for best foreign language film. 4* This is a comedy/romance & is rated PG.
Sophia & Marcello give superb performances & is certainly a good way to spend a summer's evening.
You will be seeing a very good print on film! Something to ponder – which committee member is the dead spit of Marcello?
Come dressed with an Italian theme. There is a prize.
Gold Class
Thu 15 Oct 09 How to Marry a Millionaire
Showing at Travellers Rest Private Theatre
6.30pm How to Marry a Millionaire 1953 – Marilyn Monroe
Starring Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Rory Calhoun, Cameron Mitchell & William Powell. Rated G, 95 mins.
Booking essential. $10/$7.
Sun 30 Aug 09 AGM
4.00pm Annual General Meeting - Travellers Rest – Crowlands
Sat 18 Jul 09 Pillow Talk
Screening at Crowlands Hall. Box Office open from 6.00pm
6.30pm Across the Alps to Athens – Colour train journey.
7.30pm Pillow Talk 1959 – Rock Hudson and Doris Day.
Sat 17 January 2009
The Student Prince -1954 Technicolor, 2 1/2 stars . Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson, Louis Calhern, Edmund Gwenn.
Romberg music with the voice of Mario Lanza in an operetta about the heir to the throne being sent to Heidelberg for one last fling, where he falls in love with the barmaid.
Classic 1950s film will bring a tear to the eye. Not to be missed.
Dress like royalty. Prize for best dressed.
Box Office opens 7.00pm
$12/8 includes supper and pre-show drink
Sat 21 June 2008
Box Office opens 3.30pm
4.00pm - Festival of recent Australian Short Films - Starring Shaun Micallef, Kerry Armstrong. Chris Haywood, Gary McDonald, Peter Moon, Diane Craig, Victoria Taine and Nicholas Eadie, to name a few. Sponsored by : The Ararat Performing Arts Centre
6.20pm - BBQ tea available
"Silverbeat" - singing live
7.20pm The Ladykillers (British 1955 4 stars starring Alec Guiness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers and Frankie Howerd).
A gang planning a 'job' find themselves living with a little old lady, who thinks they are musicians. When the gang set out to kill Mrs Wilberforce, they run into one problem after another, and they get what they deserve.
Last Ealing Studios Comedy.
Hall heated, but bring a rug and cushion
$12/8 admits to both sessions and includes supper and pre-show drink
Sat 19 Jan 2008 8.30pm "A Night at the Opera" - The Marx Brothers
Marx Brothers "A Night at the Opera" 1935
Don't miss it! The funniest picture ever made!
A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
A musical comedy, the sixth of thirteen Marx Brothers feature films, A Night at the Opera is universally considered to be the Marx Brothers' best and most popular film..
"Dress for the Opera"....................dig out those tuxedos, shake the mothballs from the fox fur and put your sparkly jewellery on!
Sat 14 Jul 2007, 7.45pm “MAN OR GUN” & “THE CORONATION”
1958 B&W B-grade Republic Pictures Western: “MAN OR GUN” - starring Macdonald Carey, in CinemaScope.
Plus
“THE CORONATION” – 1953 colour
Australian Movietone News – 1965
Prize for best western outfit
Box office opens 6.45pm
Sat 13th Jan 07- Model for Murder & Monkey Business
The January 13th screening will follow the successful format movie goers have come to appreciate at this popular local venue. Now with over 120 members, patrons will be treated to a pre-show drink and canapés.
The feature film “Model for Murder” is a British black & white thriller, from 1958. And, supported by a Marx Bros classic, “Monkey Business!”
The night will also reveal the lastest Australian Movietone news from 1961.
The evening concludes with an all inclusive sensational Crowlands Supper – some say the highlight of the night.
Show starts at 8.45pm. Come early for your drink and nibbles and bring a blanket and aerogard.
Dress to impress in true 1950s style.
Model for Murder
Director: Terry Bishop
Cast: Keith Andes, Hazel Court (Sally Meadows), Jean Aubrey, Michael Gough
The story involves an American in England who, while seeking his late brother's girlfriend, becomes involved in a jewel robbery. 75-minutes
