Film Flashback November 22, 1972

It was the day before Thanksgiving in Murfreesboro, Tennessee on November 22, 1972 and the excitement of turkey and gravy was in the air. What movies were playing in town on this date and what would be playing on Thanksgiving too? That's what I'm here for, even if I was actually living in Ripley, Mississippi at this time.

The Marbro Drive-In was either showing some super remastered director's cut or perhaps there was simply a typo in the newspaper advertisement as you can see Charlton Heston part the Red Sea in The Ten Commandments.

The Martin Theatre had Elvis On Tour tonight thru Saturday. I love the "in multiple-screen" note on the ad. The multiple-screen bit really caught on for a short while in the early 70's. It's Elvis so you know it's great.

Martin added a free movie on Thanksgiving day; the 1968 release With Six You Get Eggroll which starred Doris Day (in her last feature film) and Brian Keith. The movie is about two widowed people falling in love, getting married, and how their children react to it. It's one of those sorta with it comedies of the time. 

What was interesting to me was finding some non-film related advertisements for a couple of department stores in Murfreesboro that would be....gasp....open for business on Thanksgiving Day in 1972. I only throw the "gasp" in there because it seems like I've been told all my life about how everything shut down on Thanksgiving and Christmas back in the golden age. I guess the decay and commercialism had taken hold by the early 70's or most likely there is no true golden age in the past. The stores were McCrory's and Clarks. And here are the ads.