Upstate New York Series Includes Lorre Mystery

The historic Capitol Theatre, located in Rome, New York, ends its 6-movie series “Great American Novels Made Into Great American Movies” with a showing of the Dashiell Hammett mystery classic The Maltese Falcon (1941) on Thursday, August 10, 2023.

The program will begin at 7:30 pm.

Admission is $7 for adults; $6 for seniors, veterans, and students; $5 for Friends of the Capitol Theatre; and $3 for children age 12 and under.

Tickets may be purchased at the cinema box-office. Tickets may also be purchased through the venue’s website. A nominal booking fee will be added to each ticket purchased online.

The Capitol Theatre is located at 220 West Dominick Street in Rome, New York.

Parking is available on West Dominick Street in front of the theater. Parking is also available in a lot off Erie Boulevard.

The film series was presented in conjunction with Jervis Public Library and the Keaton & Lloyd Bookshop, located at 236 West Dominick Street, in Rome, New York.

The Maltese Falcon stars Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and several Warner Bros. stock players. Detective Sam Spade (Bogart) is drawn into a hunt for a golden falcon statuette, covered in gems, by a trio of international criminals (Astor, Lorre, and Greenstreet) anxious to obtain the statuette for themselves.

For more information, please contact the Capitol Theatre box-office at 315-337-6453.