Celebrate Franklin Theatre Anniversary with Free Movies

Franklin Theatre

Celebrating its fifth anniversary of reopening, the Franklin Theatre will continue its longest tradition of movies on Main Street. Today, the Franklin Theatre will screen classic movies all day for free, but tickets must be reserved. A limited amount of tickets still remain so don’t delay in reserving your ticket.

Patrons are asked to bring a canned food donation for One Gen Away, a charitable organization that provides food to the hungry.

Snow White Main10am and 1pm – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Reserve tickets here. 

Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length  animated feature film by Walt Disney. The story was adapted by storyboard artists Dorothy Ann Blank, Richard Creedon, Merrill De Maris, Otto Englander, Earl Hurd, Dick Rickard, Ted Sears and Webb Smith. Supervising direct0r, while William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, and Ben Sharpsteen directed the film’s individual sequences.

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American Graffiti4pm – American Graffiti (1962) Reserve tickets here. 

Coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed and co-written by George Lucas starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Harrison Ford, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips and Wolfman Jack. Suzanne Somers has a cameo. Set in Modesto, California in 1962, the film is a study of the cruising and rock and roll cultures popular among the post–World War II baby boom generation.

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The Sting Main7pm – The Sting (1973) Reserve tickets here. 

Set in September 1936, involving a complicated plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). The film was directed by George Roy Hill,[3] who had directed Newman and Redford in the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Created by screenwriter David S. Ward, the story was inspired by real-life cons perpetrated by brothers Fred and Charley Gondorff and documented by David Maurer in his book The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man.

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