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Only days left until the
2024 Festival.

October 18, 19, 20, 2024

Here’s a sneak preview of the Vintage Film Festival’s 2025 program!

Family Dynamics

  • You Can't Take It With You (Frank Capra, 1938) – Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur
  • Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964) – Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson
  • Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932) – Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova
  • Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955) – Subir Banerjee, Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee
  • Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton & J.G. Blystone, 1923) – Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge
  • White Heat (Raoul Walsh, 1949) – James Cagney, Edmond O'Brien, Virginia Mayo
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Stanley Kramer, 1967) – Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn
  • Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949) – Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson
  • The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) – Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
  • Bell, Book and Candle (Richard Quine, 1958) – James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon
  • I Was Born, But… (Yasujiro Ozu, 1932) – Tatsuo Saito, Tomio Aoki
  • The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967) – Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katherine Ross
  • Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944) – Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor

Program for the Thirty-First Annual Vintage Film Festival

Below is a list of the films to be shown. If you click the title of any film you will go to a page of information including a short description, director, cast and a trailer.

CAPITOL THEATRE · PORT HOPE
Theme - Great Directors

Note program is subject to change.

Date Time Title Year Min. Director Cast
Fri Oct 18 2:50 PM Announcements   10    
  3:00 PM West Side Story 1961 153 Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno
  5:35 PM Dinner   85    
  7:00 PM Some Like It Hot 1959 119 Billy Wilder Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe
  9:00 PM Break   20    
  9:20 PM The 39 Steps 1935 87 Alfred Hitchcock Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll
  10:47 PM Finish        

 

Date Time Title Year Min. Director Cast
Sat Oct 19 8:50 AM Announcements   10    
  9:00 AM Sherlock Jr. * 1924 45 Buster Keaton Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Ward Crane
  9:45 AM Break   15    
  10:00 AM Tokyo Story 1953 136 Yasujiro Ozu Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama
  12:15 PM Lunch   75    
  1:30 PM Citizen Kane 1941 119 Orson Welles Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane
  3:30 PM Break   15    
  3:45 PM Chinatown 1974 131 Roman Polanski Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
  5:55 PM Dinner   90    
  7:25 PM Dr. Strangelove 1964 93 Stanley Kubrick Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden
  9:00 PM Break   20    
  9:20 PM Cléo de 5 à 7 1962 90 Agnès Varda Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller
  10:50 PM Finish        

 

Date Time Title Year Min. Director Cast
Sun Oct 20 8:50 AM Announcements   10    
  9:00 AM The Blot * 1921 91 Lois Weber Claire Windsor, Louis Calhern
  10:30 AM Break   20    
  10:50 AM Key Largo 1948 101 John Huston Humphrey Bogart, Edward G Robinson
  12:30 PM Sunday lunchtime Film Talk   75    
  1:45 PM The Searchers 1956 119 John Ford John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles
  3:45 PM Break   15    
  4:00 PM The Palm Beach Story 1942 88 Preston Sturges Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Rudy Vallee

Program finishes at approximately 5:30 pm
* Silent with live accompaniment

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Although we try to avoid changes, the program is subject to change without notice

Films shown in earlier years.