Join us in 2023 for another year of wonderful classic movies. Enjoy films in the company of friendly fellow film buffs as Moviehouse continues it’s great tradition of showing films every Monday morning at 10.30am, February to December.
Be taken on a cinematic journey through the golden years of the great movie studios. Relive the excitement, adventure and romance of a bygone era, plus a few more recent gems for variety.
Kingston Arts Centre
979 Nepean Hwy, Moorabbin
$25 (per person, per calendar year)
Memberships are essential. Membership forms and the screening calendar are available online at kingstonarts.com.au or call 9556 4440
Screening on DVD and Blu Ray to bring you a wider range of films in high quality resolution.
Please note: No movies will be screened during the month of October or Public Holidays that fall on a Monday.
Kingston Arts continues to monitor and comply with all DHHS recommendations in relation to COVID 19. The health and safety of all patrons, staff and volunteers is a priority and as such this program may change, at which time all patrons will be notified.
• The cost of an annual subscription is $25 per person – a one off payment which covers all the films programmed for the year.
• Single Session Tickets are not available for purchase, only an annual subscription.
• You will be issued with a membership card which you must produce each week.
• Carers attend free. Please advise the box office when you book your membership if you have a Companion Card.
• We have a limited number of Accessible Seats for those members who cannot use the stairs to access their seat. Please advise the box office of your requirements at the time of booking your membership as you will be issued with a Priority Card. Please note these seats are limited.
• The kettle will be on so join us from 10am for a cuppa before the start of the movie.
• Films are introduced each week with interesting facts and a touch of film trivia thrown in for fun!
• Movies will always start at 10.30am sharp.
• Sorry, latecomers cannot be admitted into the theatre due to safety reasons, so please arrive in plenty of time.
• Only long movies will have an intermission, and this will be announced at the beginning of the movie.
• Moviehouse Members will be issued with a Parking Pass for use on a Monday morning only, however please note that this does not guarantee a parking spot as the car park fills quickly.
PG 157 mins
On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who’s being courted for a dangerous military mission.
Starring: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor John Kerr
Director: Joshua Logan Musical Romance
B&W Rated PG 116 mins
A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has one surprise after another.
Starring: Tyrone Power Marlene Dietrich Charles Laughton
Director: Billy Wilder Crime Drama Mystery
The courtroom setting, which cost $75,000 to build, was a recreation of an actual courtroom in London’s Central Criminal Courts, The Old Bailey.
Colour Rated G 129 mins
Sean Thorton is an American boxer who swears off fighting after he accidentally kills an opponent in the ring. Returning to the Irish town of his youth, he reclaims his family’s homestead and falls in love with the fiery Mary Kate.
Starring: John Wayne Maureen O’Hara Barry Fitzgerald Director: John Ford Romance
Colour Rated PG 95 mins
The Apaches are on the warpath and the Army must defend them.
Starring: Audie Murphy Michael Burns Mary Willingham
Director: William Witney Western
B&W Rated G 97 mins
A chemist finds his personal and professional life turned upside down when one of his chimpanzees finds the fountain of youth.
Starring: Cary Grant Ginger Rogers Marilyn Monroe Director: Howard Hawks Comedy
Did you know?
The address that Edwina gives when she calls the police was Ginger Rogers’ real-life address: 1605 N Gilcrest.
Colour Rated PG 112 mins
British Agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
Gypsy 1962
Colour Rated G 143 mins
Colour Rated G 142 mins
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building but will it happen?
Starring: Cary Grant Deborah Kerr Richard Denning
Director: Leo McCarey Drama Romance
Starring: Richard Burton Claire Bloom Oskar Werner
Director: Martin Ritt Thriller Drama
Close to the end of this movie, there is a billboard on the West Berlin side of the Berlin Wall facing east, it states “ Soldat auch du bist eingesperrt!”, which roughly translates to “Soldier, you too are locked up!”
Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her overbearing stage mother, Mama Rose.
Starring: Rosalind Russell Natalie Wood Karl Malden
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Musical
Colour Rated G 85 mins
During the Mahdist insurrection in Sudan, Private Baker teams up with Murchison, trying to evacuate from Barash with the Emir’s daughter and her governess.
Starring: Anthony Quayle Sylvia Syms Derek Fowlds Director: Nathan Juran Adventure Drama Romance
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Colour Rated PG 117 mins
The musical biopic of jazz great Red Nichols.
Starring: Danny Kaye Barbara Bel Geddes Louis Armstrong Director: Melville Shaveslon Drama
The Seven Hills of Rome 1957 Quartet 2012
Colour Rated PG 107 mins
On a train to Rome, the American singer Marc Revere meets the Italian Raffaella. He notices that she intends to work and live at her uncle’s who it turns out has moved to South America. So offers her to live with him at this cousin’s, an impecunious pianist.
Starring: Mario Lanza Renato Rascel Marisa Allasio Director: Roy Rowland
Drama Musical Romance
Colour Rated PG 98 mins
At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi’s birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean, an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents.
Starring: Maggie Smith Michael Gambon Billy Connolly
Director: Dustin Hoffman Comedy Drama Music
Colour Rated G 134 mins
A showgirl returns to her New York home to visit her alcoholic mother, where she catches the eye of a Broadway producer.
B&W Rated G 85 mins
Colour Rated G 102 mins
B&W Rated PG 116 mins
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family before the complex case is over, he’s seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart Lauren Bacall John Ridgely
Director: Howard Hawks Crime Film Noir Mystery
Starring: Doris Day Gene Nelson
Director : David Butler Musical
A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers along at ‘high noon’.
Starring: Gary Cooper Grace Kelly Thomas Mitchel
Director: Fred Zimmerman Action Adventure Western
In 1850 Oregon when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide the they want to get married too.
Starring: Jane Powell Howard Keel Jeff Richards
Director: Stonely Donen Comedy Drama Musical
Colour Rated PG 102 mins
A women finds a treasure and is torn between two men, one who wants to sell it and one who wants to gift it to Greece.
Starring: Alan Ladd Clifton Webb Sophia Loren Director: Jean Negulesco Drama
B&W Rated G 88 mins
The story of the final years of the respected World War 11 German general Erwin Rommel.
Starring: James Mason Cedric Hardwicke Jessica Tandy
Colour Rated PG 100 mins
True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.
Starring: Anne Bancroft Anthony Hopkins
Director: Henry Hathaway Biography Drama War
Director: David Hugh Jones Biography Drama Romance
Colour Rated PG 101 mins
The famous French detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau, investigates the murder of a man at a country house.
Starring: Peter Sellers Elke Sommer George Sanders Director: Blake Edwards Comedy
B&W Rated PG 98 mins
A young man plots revenge against the woman he believes murdered is cousin, but his plans are shaken when he comes face to face with the enigmatic beauty.
Colour Rated PG 115 mins
Biopic of Australian Swimming champ and entertainer Annite Kellerman.
B&W Rated G 90 mins
B&W Rated G 94 mins
A travelling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.
Starring: Sidney Poitier Lilia Skala Lisa Mann
Director: Ralph Nelson Drama
Starring : Olivia de Havilland Richard Burton Audrey Dalton
Director: Henry Koster Drama Mystery Romance
Trivia
Richard Burton in seen in almost every scene, but got his Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, as Olivia de Havilland was the star.
Starring: Esther Williams Victor Mature Walter Pidgeon David Brian Director: Mervyn LeRoy Biography Drama Musical
When Miss Jane Marple joins a theatrical company after a blackmailer is murdered, several members of the troupe are also dispatched by this mysterious killer.
Starring: Margaret Rutherford Ron Moody Charles Tingwell Director: George Pollock Comedy Crime Drama
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The Court Jester 1955 Showboat 1951
Colour Rated G 101 mins
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against an evil ruler who has overthrown the rightful King.
Starring: Danny Kaye Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone
Director: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama Adventure Comedy Family
Colour Rated G 107 mins
A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of Show Boat
Starring: Kathryn Grayson Ava Gardner Howard Keel
Director: George Sidney Drama Musical Romance
Double Indemnity 1944
B&W Rated PG 107 mins
A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder.
Starring : Fred McMurray, Barbara Stanwyck
Director: Billy Wilder Crime Drama Mystery
Elephant Walk 1954
Colour Rated G 103 mins
The young bride of a rich planter finds herself the only white woman at Elephant Walk tea plantation, British Ceylon.
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor Dana Andrews Peter Finch Director: William Dieterle Adventure Drama
Vivien Leigh was originally cast as Ruth. Her mental illness began affecting things during filming, and she was replaced by Dame Elizabeth Taylor. Many long shots and shots from behind are still of Leigh.
The Glenn Miller Story 1954
Colour Rated G 115 mins
A Vibrant tribute to one of America’s legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Millers rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940’s.
Starring: James Stewart June Allyson
Director: Anthony Mann Musical
B&W Rated PG 100 mins
In London, three otherwise lawabiding good men and their unscrupulous leader are about to commit a serious crime, but for different reasons.
Starring: Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Richard Basehart
Director: Lewis Gilbert Crime Drama Thriller
Colour Rated G 104 mins
Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival’s spy to produce spectacular live “prologues” for movie houses.
Starring: James Cagney Ruby Keeler Joan Blondell
Director: Lloyd Bacon Comedy Musical Romance
Colour Rated PG 96 mins
A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.
Starring: Marilyn Monroe Don Murray Arthur O’Connell
Director: Joshua Logan Comedy Drama Romance
Marilyn Monroe played Cherie, a role that Kim Stanley originated on Broadway. Some critics pointed out that Monroe’s performance was an inflection-forinflection recreation of Stanley’s. Two years later, Stanley played a thinly-veiled version of Monroe in The Goddess (1958).
B&W Rated PG 134 mins
After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.
Starring: Gregory Peck Ava Gardner Fred Astaire
Director: Stanley Kramer Drama Romance Sci Fi
The movie was shot in part in Berwick, a (then) small town in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. Some streets which were being established during this time were named after people involved in the film. Some examples are: Gardner Street (Ava Gardner), Shute Avenue (Nevil Shute), and Kramer Drive (Stanley Kramer).
B&W Rated G 130 mins
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
Starring: James Stewart Donna Reed Lionel Barrymore
Director: Frank Capra
For the scene that required Donna Reed to throw a rock through the window of the Granville house, director Frank Capra hired a marksman to shoot it out on cue. To everyone’s amazement, Reed broke the window by herself. She had played baseball in high school and had a strong throwing arm.
Limited parking is available under the Kingston City Hall.
Parking Permits (valid for the duration of the movie only on Mondays) will be issued to members to allow parking in the Kingston Arts carpark.
Please note the issue of a parking permit does not guarantee a parking space.
When booking your membership, please request a Parking Permit.
The area is well served by public transport. The 824 and 825 routes stop directly outside Moorabbin railway station on the Nepean Hwy side.
The 811 and 812 routes stop along South Rd, just before Nepean Hwy, next to the Kingston Arts Centre. Moorabbin railway station is on the Frankston train line and the station is within easy walking distance of the Centre, 100 metres away.
There is a taxi rank directly outside Moorabbin station.
The venue is access friendly, with wheelchair accessible toilets on the ground floor and a lift up to the Theatre on Level 1, and is equipped with a hearing loop.
For more information, visit kingstonarts.com.au
You can also join up in person at the box office Monday to Friday, 9am to 4.30pm.
Box Office, Kingston City Hall 985 Nepean Hwy Moorabbin VIC 3189 Do not
On receipt of your application and payment, we will issue your 2023 Moviehouse membership card. You must present this card each time you attend a Moviehouse session. All memberships expire at the end of 2023.
