In Reply to: So that location went from bad to worse :( posted by Jay Buridan on January 11, 2017 at 12:55:01:
Actually the film in Jacobellis v. Ohio was The Lovers, directed by Louis Malle. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052556/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_29
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/33094/lovers-criterion-collection-the/
The theater was then called the Heights Art Theater. They showed basically "art house movies," such as films by Malle and other European directors that the mainstream theaters never showed.
Here's the whole story of the landmark court case and pictures of the theater from 1941 (when it was a regular movie house showing standard Hollywood fare) and 2012, in its last incarnation as a movie theater:
https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/436#.WHa0F_krLeM
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Follow Ups
- RE: So that location went from bad to worse :( - pbarach 14:41:33 01/11/17 (1)
- Jeez, I never knew it was a film by Louis Malle - Jay Buridan 16:32:58 01/16/17 (0)