North by Northwest (1959) (3:00), 7:30
d Alfred Hitchcock. w Ernest Lehman. ph Robert Burks. m Bernard Herrmann. MGM. 136 min.
Cary Grant (Roger Thornhill), Eva Marie Saint (Eve Kendall), James Mason (Philip Vandamm), Jessie Royce Landis (Clara Thornhill), Leo G. Carroll (Professor), Philip Ober (Lester Townsend), Josephine Hutchinson (Handsome Woman), Martin Landau (Leonard), Adam Williams (Valerian), Edward Platt (Victor Larrabee), Robert Ellenstein (Licht), Les Tremayne (Auctioneer).
In Hitchcock's most successful blending of romance and suspense, and one of Hollywood's most enduring classics, mild-mannered advertising executive Cary Grant answers the wrong page one afternoon and finds himself embroiled with spies, murderers, the FBI, and Eva Marie Saint — which only gives Hitchcock the chance to display some of his most extravagant fantasies, such as the crop dusting scene and the Mt. Rushmore climax.
"Cinema, approached in this way, becomes a truly abstract art, like music... It's obvious that the fantasy of the absurd is a key ingredient in your film-making formula." François Truffaut
"The fact is I practice absurdity quite religiously." Hitchcock
"Since that [crop-dusting] scene doesn't move the action forward, it's the kind of concept that would simply never occur to a screenwriter; only a director could dream up an idea like that." Truffaut
Hitchcock appears crossing the street.
North by Northwest has been the seventh most widely attended
film at the Stanford Theatre — 61,403 tickets since 1990.
first played at the Stanford Theatre Jan 24, 1990; last played Apr 2026
On the Waterfront (1954) 5:30, 10:00
d Elia Kazan. w Budd Schulberg. ph Boris Kaufman. m Leonard Bernstein. Columbia. 108 min.
Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Karl Malden, Pat Henning, Leif Erickson, James Westerfield, John Hamilton.
An ex-prizefighter turned dock worker has his conscience awakened by a sensitive young woman.
Eva Marie Saint won an Oscar in this, her very first film. Director Kazan called Brando's performance "the finest thing ever done by an American film actor."
first played at the Stanford Theatre May 13, 1993; last played May 2016
d Robert Stevenson. w Bill Walsh, Don de Gradi, from the novel by P.L. Travers. ph Edward Colman. m/l Richard M. & Robert B Sherman. Walt Disney. 139 min.
Julie Andrews, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Dick Van Dyke. Reginald Owen, Ed Wynn, Elsa Lanchester, Jane Darwell.
first played at the Stanford Theatre Dec. 6, 2024; last played Dec 2024
The Wizard of Oz (1939) 5:35, 10:00
d Victor Fleming & King Vidor. w Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Wolfe, from the book by L. Frank Baum. ph Harold Rosson. songs E. Y. Harburg & Harold Arlen. MGM. 102 min.
Judy Garland (Dorothy Gale), Frank Morgan (Prof. Marvel / Oz, the Wizard), Ray Bolger (Hunk / The Scarecrow), Jack Haley (Hickory / The Tin Woodman), Bert Lahr (Zeke / The Cowardly Lion), Margaret Hamilton (Almira Gulch / The Wicked Witch of the West), Billie Burke (Glinda, the Good Witch of the South), Charley Grapewin (Uncle Henry), Clara Blandick (Aunt Em), Pat Walsh (Nikko), Terry the Dog (Toto).
One of the most beloved films of Hollywood's Golden Age, The Wizard of Oz continues to enchant adiences more than 80 years after its premiere. You haven't really been to Oz until you've seen it on our big screen in glorious Technicolor, with an audience.
The Wizard of Oz has been the eleventh most widely attended
film at the Stanford Theatre — 54,310 tickets since 1989.
first played at the Stanford Theatre Sep 3, 1939; last played Sep 2025