CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – In 1980, after the last credit rolled off the big screen at the final showing, the Roxy movie theater closed it doors, reopening three years later as a live performance theatre.

Now, over three decades later, Roxy Regional Theatre Executive Director Ryan Bowie is bringing film back to the corner of Franklin and First in historic downtown Clarksville with the “Planters Bank Presents…” film series.

The series will feature vintage flicks and modern classics, presented on Sunday afternoons in the theatre’s 153-seat auditorium.

In anticipation of Halloween, the inaugural showing in the series will be the 1993 comedy Hocus Pocus on Sunday, October 23, at 2 p.m.

Originally purchased for a project through the Tennessee Arts Commission’s Creative Placemaking grant program, the equipment for screening the films is on permanent loan to the theatre from the Clarksville-Montgomery County Arts & Heritage Development Council.

Admission to each film in the “Planters Bank Presents…” series is $5 (cash or check only). Tickets will only be available at the door one hour prior to showtime, and popcorn and bottled water will be available as concessions. Upcoming films include the following:

HOCUS POCUS
Sunday, October 23 @ 2:00pm

Halloween night will never be the same after three 17th century witches (Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy) are accidentally conjured up in present-day Salem, where they brew a hilarious cauldron of mischief and mayhem!

Rating: PG
Runtime: 95 minutes
Release Year: 1993
Director: Kenny Ortega


ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN
Sunday, October 30 @ 2:00pm

Two hapless freight handlers (Bud Abbott and Lou Costello) find themselves encountering Dracula (Bela Lugosi), Frankenstein’s creature (Glenn Strange) and the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr.) in this 1948 American horror comedy classic.

Rating: NR
Runtime: 83 minutes
Release Year: 1948
Director: Charles Barton

THE WIZARD OF OZ
Sunday, November 6 @ 2:00pm

In this much-loved musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s classic novel, Kansas girl Dorothy and her dog, Toto, are whisked by a tornado into the magical land of Oz, where they are joined by the Tin Man, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion on an adventure down the Yellow Brick Road to persuade the Wizard to help her find her way home.

Rating: G
Runtime: 101 minutes
Release Year: 1939
Director: Victor Fleming

E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL
Sunday, November 13 @ 2:00pm

Elliott, a lonely young boy, summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home-world in this classic sci-fi adventure which captures that strange moment in youth when the world is a place of mysterious possibilities, and the universe seems somehow separate from the one inhabited by grown-ups.

Rating: PG
Runtime: 115 minutes
Release Year: 1982
Director: Steven Spielberg

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
Sunday, November 20 @ 2:00pm

Archaeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis in this action-packed adventure, the first in the original trilogy cooked up by the dream team of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.

Rating: PG
Runtime: 115 minutes
Release Year: 1981
Director: Steven Spielberg

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Sunday, November 27 @ 2:00pm

In Frank Capra’s classic holiday comedy/drama, an angel (Henry Travers) helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman, George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart), by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.

Rating: PG
Runtime: 129 minutes
Release Year: 1946
Director: Frank Capra

WHITE CHRISTMAS
Sunday, December 4 @ 2:00pm

A successful pair of nightclub entertainers (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) become romantically involved with a sister act (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general in this musical romantic comedy featuring the songs of Irving Berlin.

Rating: NR
Runtime: 120 minutes
Release Year: 1954
Director: Michael Curtiz