The 1967 Academy Award Best Picture of the Year, In the Heat of the Night, was featured at the Budd Theatre, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on Friday and Saturday, November 1 and 2 [1968] as shown the ad that appeared in the Lykens Standard, October 31, 1968.
As the ad states, there was one show on Friday at 7:30 p.m. and two shows on Saturday at 7:00 and 9 p.m.
The film starred Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, the latter winning the Academy’s Best Actor Award. The most notable quote from the film, “They call me Mr. Tibbs,” was delivered by Poitier. It is considered by the American Film Institute as Number 16 on the list of all-time movie quotes.
The Budd was the premier movie house in Lykens.
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The movie poster is from Wikipedia.
Ad from Newspapers.com.
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