Murphy’s Town Hall Athenry 58 15th February 1959 – a promo slip for the Hall Cinema records that Destry, a 1954 Western starring Audie Murphy was shown @ 8.30pm (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 14th February 1959, page 13). 17th February 1959 – Interpol, a 1957 Film Noir starring Victor Mature & Anita Ekberg was shown @ 8.30pm (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 14th February 1959, page 13). 20th February 1959 – Dragnet, a 1947 crime movie, starring Henry Wilcoxon, Mary Brian, Douglass Dumbrille, Virginia Dale, Don C. Harvey, and Ralph Dunn was screened in the Hall in the Hall (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 14th February 1959, page 13). 7th March 1959 – Athenry Players performed The Playboy of the Western World in the Hall, a 1907 comedy play in Three Acts by JM Synge (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 7th March 1959, page 15). 7th April 1959 – Tall in the Saddle, a 1944 Western starring John Wayne and Ella Raines was screened in the Hall (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 4th April 1959, page 15). 14th April 1959 – Picnic, a 1955 romantic comedy starring William Holden and Kim Novak, was screened in the Hall (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 11th April 1959, page 13). 12th & 13th May 1959 – Rooney, a 1958 comedy starring John Gregson, Barry Fitzgerald and Noel Purcell, was screened in the Hall (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 9th May 1959, page 15). 23rd & 24th June 1959 – The Rising of the Moon, a 1957 film directed by John Ford starring Cyril Cusack, Noel Purcell, Maureen Potter et al, with narration by Tyrone Power (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 20th June 1959, page 15). The film consists of three episodes all set in Ireland: The Majesty of the Law, based on a short story by Frank O'Connor A Minute's Wait, based on a 1914 One Act comedy by Martin J. McHugh 1921, based on the play The Rising of the Moon by Lady Gregory. 3rd July 1959 – That Certain Feeling, a 1956 comedy starring Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint and George Sanders was screened in the Hall (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 27th June 1959, page 13). 15th August 1959 – Ramsbottom Rides Again, a 1956 Western Comedy starring Arthur Askey, Sid James and Sabrina (Norma Ann Sykes), was screened in the Hall (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 8th August 1959, page 13). 15th September 1959 – The Barretts of Wimpole Street, a 1957 movie (based on the 1930 play of the same name) starring Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud and Virginia McKenna, was screened in the Hall (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 12th September 1959, page 13). 4th October 1959 – Ice Cold in Alex, a 1958 WWII movie, starring John Mills & Sylvia Syms was screened in the Hall, (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 3rd October 1959, page 15). See poster image at the back. 30th October 1959 – Ill Met By Moonlight, 105 a 1957 WWII era film (based on a 1950 book of the same name), starring Dirk Bogarde and Cyril Cusack was screened in the Hall (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 24th October 1959, page 15). 12th, 13th & 14th November 1959 – Athenry Players performed Sive, a 1959 play in Three Acts by John B Keane, in the Hall (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 7th November 1959, page 15). 20th November 1959 – Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, a 1957 Western starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Dennis Hopper, Lee Van Cleef and DeForest Kelley was screened in the Hall (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 14th November 1959, page 15). 105 Released in the US under the title Night Ambush. NB: Not to be confused with the 1946 Micheál Mac Liammóir stage play Ill Met By Moonlight.
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