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Admiral Twin Drive-in: What's your dream double-feature?
Published: 6/7/2012 2:21 PM
Last Modified: 6/7/2012 5:04 PM

What double-feature would you project onto the Admiral Twin Drive-in's new screens?

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the show is about to begin: The Admiral Twin Drive-in reopens next Friday.

The 60-year Tulsa institution that burned to the ground in September returns with new screens and a new concession stand for a new generation to enjoy movies under the stars.

These are your viewing choices next Friday: "Rock of Ages" and "Men in Black III" on one side, "The Avengers" and "Snow White and the Huntsman" on the opposite side.

But if you could serve as guest programmer for the Admiral Twin for an evening, what images would you project onto the largest movie screens in the Southwest?

What would be your dream double-feature? Tell us and we'll post a few responses in next week's Weekend section cover story celebrating the return of watching movies in the great outdoors.

We played around with this question in a story last year.

There was the obvious choice: "The Outsiders" and "Rumble Fish," both based on S.E. Hinton's Tulsa-based novels and shot here.

Francis Ford Coppola's film of "The Outsiders" shot scenes at the Admiral Twin in 1982. Ever since that time, the drive-in has remained arguably the most famous film location in Oklahoma, as much for the young actors who became superstars (Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze and more) as for Hinton's beloved book.

Drive-in co-owner Blake Smith went for pairing up "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" with "The Sting," a pure Paul Newman-Robert Redford double-feature.

Longtime Admiral Twin projectionist Bob Keith recalled how good business was at the drive-in anytime that a John Wayne picture opened, so he chose "Red River" and "Blood on the Moon."

I went for my own personal nostalgia and selected a cheesy horror film, "Humanoids from the Deep," (salmon-man creatures mating with humans!) and the still-spooky sci-fi fantasy "Altered States," both from 1980, and both of which I saw at the drive-in.

But now the question begs: What's your ideal double-feature for a night at the Admiral Twin Drive-in?

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ClanJoyWalkSig (8 months ago)

American Graffiti and Jaws

Chainsaw (8 months ago)

Seconded.

junkman (8 months ago)

sounds good to me

TCH51 (8 months ago)

Off the top of my head, Vertigo (suspense) and The Sheriff from Fractured Jaw (comedy and also Jayne Mansfield)

Tulsa World Staff Writer Brian Barber (8 months ago)

Jaws and Star Wars

or Alien and Aliens

dean (8 months ago)

Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers and Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama.

231963 (8 months ago)

Rocky Horror Picture Show and any thing else, I would just like to see those big lips on the big screen

RAZORBACK2299 (8 months ago)

Last of the Mohicans and Lost Boys

Nazarene Fan (8 months ago)

The Godfather and Shane on one side and Star Wars and Fantasia on the other.

DomoArrigato (8 months ago)

Mothra and "Night of the Lepus".

"Psycho" (the original) and "Wait until dark" on the other screen.

White Rabbit (8 months ago)

Drive-In Movies: Mondo Cane and Carry On, Nurse

Really Good Movies: Vertigo and Dr. Strangelove

Mar (8 months ago)

Last of the Mohicans and The Way We Were.

The Avengers sounds good to me. I wouldn't spend a penny to see Jaws. Love American Graffiti, a classic and The Outsiders (rather appropriate wouldn't you say)?

Loophole (8 months ago)

"The Shootist" and "Run Silent, Run Deep."

Ric (8 months ago)

The Warriors and Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

TCH51 (8 months ago)

I do like submarine movies. How about "Run Silent, Run Deep" and "Das Boot". Loved that scene where Germans all sing "Its a long way to Tipperary".

zach (8 months ago)

The warriors and McClintock.

laz (8 months ago)

casablanca and key largo.

Shumate (8 months ago)

The most memorable double feature I ever attended at a drive-in theater was during the early 70's at Tahlequah....J.W. Coop followed by Woodstock.

Talk about a diverse audience! A bunch of the Hippies from NSC (now NSU) spent the first feature (J.W. Coop) smoking dope and getting high. As soon as the second feature (Woodstock) began all of the rednecks fired up their pickups and left in disgust.

Shmoopy (8 months ago)

Paleeeeeez do Outsiders and Rumble Fish...would also love a Godfather Triple feature...ooooh oooooh w/ Italian food concessions.

SalinaDave (8 months ago)

with free admission to all who come dressed as a mobster...no guns, though..especially automatic weapons.

Wiser Times (8 months ago)

Cool Hand Luke followed by either Smokey and the Bandit or Cannonball Run

217719 (8 months ago)

Easy Rider followed by Woodstock.

grace o'malley (8 months ago)

apocalypse now/the pride of the yankees
the big lebowski/north by northwest

TumblingDice (8 months ago)

2001: A Space Odyssey and A Hard Day's Night. Maybe in reverse order.

47196 (8 months ago)

Blazing Saddles and Young Frankinstien

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