Join us for the 85th Anniversary Tower Theater Film Festival!!

Schedule of Events:

March 1, 2025

2:00 pm: Creature from the Black Lagoon and Captain America

Presented in Celebration of the Tower's 85th Anniversary!
Reserved seating, doors open at 1:00 pm

We're rolling back ticket prices and giving away birthday cake! Join this weeklong celebration of Central Oregon's iconic venue and re-experience eight cinematic blockbusters from each decade the Tower was an active movie theater. Start with the 1941 Bogart classic "The Maltese Falcon" and 1944 Saturday matinee serial "Captain America". Wrap it up with the 1981 "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and 1994's  "Forrest Gump."

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954; 80 minutes)

In this quintessential Universal Pictures monster movie, a group of scientists try to capture a prehistoric beast lurking in the depths of the Amazon and bring the "Gill-man" to civilization, where "every man is his mortal enemy and woman's beauty his prey!"

Captain America Serial-Episode 2 (1944; 16 minutes)

The 15-chapter weekly series was the first theatrical appearance of a Marvel Comics character, and the most expensive serial Republic Studios ever made. The masked Captain America (aka District Attorney Grant Gardner) attempts to solve a rash of high-profile suicides induced by the hypnotic chemical "Purple Death," and thwart the evil Scarab's plans to deploy super-weapons "Dynamic Vibrator" and "Electronic Firebolt."

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7:00 pm: Maltese Falcon

Presented in Celebration of the Tower's 85th Anniversary!
Reserved seating, doors open at 6:00 pm

We're rolling back ticket prices and giving away birthday cake! Join this weeklong celebration of Central Oregon's iconic venue and re-experience eight cinematic blockbusters from each decade the Tower was an active movie theater. Start with the 1941 Bogart classic "The Maltese Falcon" and 1944 Saturday matinee serial "Captain America". Wrap it up with the 1981 "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and 1994's  "Forrest Gump."

The Maltese Falcon (1941; 100 minutes)

The film noir classic based on Dashiell Hammett's novel stars Humphrey Bogart as private detective Sam Spade, entangled in a dangerous web of crime and intrigue over a jewel-encrusted statuette. The directorial debut of John Huston co-stars Mary Astor as the femme fatale client, with Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet as unscrupulous villains. The film, notable for its cast, crisp dialogue, and dramatic cinematography, was one of the first 25 films the Library of Congress inducted into the National Film Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

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March 2, 2025

2:00 pm: Singin' In The Rain

Presented in Celebration of the Tower's 85th Anniversary!
Reserved seating, doors open at 1:00 pm.

We're rolling back ticket prices and giving away birthday cake! Join this weeklong celebration of Central Oregon's iconic venue and re-experience eight cinematic blockbusters from each decade the Tower was an active movie theater. Start with the 1941 Bogart classic "The Maltese Falcon" and 1944 Saturday matinee serial "Captain America". Wrap it up with the 1981 "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and 1994's  "Forrest Gump."

Singin' in the Rain (1952; 103 minutes)

"This exuberant and malicious satire of Hollywood in the late twenties is perhaps the most enjoyable of movie musicals – just about the best Hollywood musical of all time."  -Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

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7:00 pm: North by Northwest

Presented in Celebration of the Tower's 85th Anniversary!
Reserved seating, doors open at 6:00 pm

We're rolling back ticket prices and giving away birthday cake! Join this weeklong celebration of Central Oregon's iconic venue and re-experience eight cinematic blockbusters from each decade the Tower was an active movie theater. Start with the 1941 Bogart classic "The Maltese Falcon" and 1944 Saturday matinee serial "Captain America". Wrap it up with the 1981 "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and 1994's  "Forrest Gump."

North by Northwest (1959; 136 minutes)

The ultimate Hitchcock thriller is widely regarded as a period masterpiece with its themes of deception, mistaken identity and Cold War morals. An impeccable Cary Grant plays a New York City advertising executive on the run after foreign spies mistake him for a government agent.

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March 3, 2025

7:00 pm: The Graduate

Presented in Celebration of the Tower's 85th Anniversary!
Reserved seating, doors open at 6:00 pm

We're rolling back ticket prices and giving away birthday cake! Join this weeklong celebration of Central Oregon's iconic venue and re-experience eight cinematic blockbusters from each decade the Tower was an active movie theater. Start with the 1941 Bogart classic "The Maltese Falcon" and 1944 Saturday matinee serial "Captain America". Wrap it up with the 1981 "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and 1994's  "Forrest Gump."

The Graduate (1967; 106 minutes)

Dustin Hoffman is 21-year-old Benjamin Braddock, a recent college grad trying to avoid the one question everyone asks: What does he want to do with his life? An unexpected tryst with bored housewife and friend of his parents, Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), turns complicated when Benjamin falls for her daughter, Elaine (Katherine Ross). The groundbreaking dramedy was North America's top grossing film of 1967 and nominated for seven Academy Awards.

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March 4, 2025

7:00 pm: Planet of the Apes

Presented in Celebration of the Tower's 85th Anniversary!
Reserved seating, doors open at 6:00 pm

We're rolling back ticket prices and giving away birthday cake! Join this weeklong celebration of Central Oregon's iconic venue and re-experience eight cinematic blockbusters from each decade the Tower was an active movie theater. Start with the 1941 Bogart classic "The Maltese Falcon" and 1944 Saturday matinee serial "Captain America". Wrap it up with the 1981 "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and 1994's  "Forrest Gump."

Planet of the Apes (1968; 112 minutes)

In the sci-fi masterpiece that launched a six decades-long franchise, astronauts crash land on a strange world in the distant future and stumble upon a society where apes have evolved into the dominant species and humans are enslaved primitives.

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March 5, 2025

7:00 pm: Raiders of the Lost Ark

Presented in Celebration of the Tower's 85th Anniversary!
Reserved seating, doors open at 6:00 pm

We're rolling back ticket prices and giving away birthday cake! Join this weeklong celebration of Central Oregon's iconic venue and re-experience eight cinematic blockbusters from each decade the Tower was an active movie theater. Start with the 1941 Bogart classic "The Maltese Falcon" and 1944 Saturday matinee serial "Captain America". Wrap it up with the 1981 "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and 1994's  "Forrest Gump."

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981; 115 minutes)

Globetrotting archaeologist Indiana Jones vies with German Nazis to recover the long-lost Ark of the Covenant with its mythical power to make armies invincible. The Lucas-Spielberg action-adventure blockbuster tribute to 1940 movie serials was the number one film worldwide in 1981.

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March 6, 2025

7:00 pm: Forrest Gump

Presented in Celebration of the Tower's 85th Anniversary!
Reserved seating, doors open at 6:00 pm

We're rolling back ticket prices and giving away birthday cake! Join this weeklong celebration of Central Oregon's iconic venue and re-experience eight cinematic blockbusters from each decade the Tower was an active movie theater. Start with the 1941 Bogart classic "The Maltese Falcon" and 1944 Saturday matinee serial "Captain America". Wrap it up with the 1981 "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and 1994's  "Forrest Gump."

Forrest Gump (1994; 182 minutes)

Winner of six Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor, and the second-highest grossing film worldwide in 1994, this acclaimed comedy-drama depicts the history of the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s from the perspective of an innocent, slow-witted yet charming Alabama man whose lifelong yearning is simply to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.

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Date: March 1 - 6, 2025

Location: Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St, Bend, OR 97703

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