Program for the Seventeenth
Annual Vintage Film Festival
at Historic Cobourg and Port Hope - 2009
Note that although every effort is made to avoid it, the program is subject to change without notice. However, if you are on our mailing list (click here), we will let you know if this happens.
The following program is as accurate as we can make it but it is possible there may be changes. Watch this site for any updates.
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Friday 23 October 2009 Victoria Hall - Cobourg
| Start Time | Film | Leads / Director | Run time | Film Sponsor |
| 4:15 pm | Registration | |||
| 5:20 pm | Town Crier/Announcements | |||
| 5:30 pm | Six of a Kind (1934) | Fields, Burns, Allen, Boland Dir: McCarey |
62m | Cathie & Les Houston |
| 6:35 pm | Reception | |||
| 7:35 pm | Scholarship Presentation | |||
| 7:45 pm | Guest Speaker - Rob Brooks | Researcher on Mary Pickford and owner of the world's most valuable and rare collection of Pickford Memorabilia and production art. Click here for full Bio |
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| 8:00 pm | Stella Maris* (1918) | Pickford Dir: Neilan | 84m | Lynn Hardy, RBC Dominion Securities |
| 9:25pm | Break | |||
| 9:40 pm | The Fighting 69th (1940) T | Cagney, OBrien Dir: Keighley | 89m | Patrick Houlihan, RBC Dominion Securities |
| 11:10 pm | Program finishes | |||
Saturday 24 October 2009 Capitol Theatre - Port Hope
Headsets for assisted hearing available at the Capitol Theatre
| Start Time | Film | Leads / Director | Run time | Film Sponsor |
| 9:45 am | Registration | |||
| 10:15 am | The Lost World*‡ (1925) T | Beery, Love. Dir: Hoyt | 110m | Lynn Rutherford Tozer |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch | |||
| 2:00 pm | After Tomorrow (1932) | Farrell, Nixon, Hull, Pawley Dir: Borzage | 79m | Phil Carter and Sheilagh Fletcher |
| 3:20 pm | Break | |||
| 3:40 pm | The Young in Heart (1938) | Gaynor, Fairbanks Jr Dir: Wallace | 90m | Meet at 66 King East Margaret Bailey |
| 5:10 pm | Dinner | |||
| 7:15 pm | Newsreel/Short Subject | Click here for details | Dr. Tom and Mrs. Helen Hawke | |
| 7:50 pm | Queen High (1930) | Morgan, Rogers Dir: Newmeyer | 85m | |
| 9:15 pm | Break | |||
| 9:40 pm | Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) T | Powell, Benny, Silvers Dir: Del Ruth | 101m | MacCoubrey Funeral Home |
| 11:20 pm | Program finishes |
Sunday 25 October 2009 Capitol Theatre - Port Hope
| Start Time | Film | Leads / Director | Run time | Film Sponsor |
| 9:00 am | Registration | |||
| 9:30 am | Dangerous Females (1929) | Dressler, Moran Dir: Watson | 21m | |
| 10:00 am | Metropolis*‡ (1927) | Helm, Abel, Frolich, Rasp Dir: Lang | 120m | Anne Marie Steger Law Office |
| 12:00pm | Lunch | |||
| 2:00 pm | Trouble in Paradise (1932) T | Marshall, Hopkins, Ruggles Dir: Lubitsch | 83m | David Weir Barbara Garrick |
| 3:25 pm | Break | |||
| 3:40 pm | Cavalcade (1933) | Brooks, Wynyard, Bevan Dir: F. Lloyd | 110m | Hill & Dale Manor Bed and Breakfast Langhorne, Irwin and Wharram-Spry |
| 5:30 pm | Program finishes |
* Silent
Piano Accompaniment - Philip Carli - More details here
Program subject to change without notice