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unusual facts about double bill



Fields of Sacrifice

It would enjoy a two-year theatrical run, often shown as part of a double bill with the NFB's 70-minute drama Drylanders.

Secret Agent Fireball

It was released in the United States by American International Pictures as Secret Agent Fireball (to exploit the earlier 007 film, Thunderball) and double billed with Spy in Your Eye.

The Incredible Petrified World

It was only theatrically released on April 16, 1960, on a double bill with "Teenage Zombies".


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Amelia Goes to the Ball

Amelia al ballo is still periodically performed, with productions in the 2008/2009 seasons in Vichy, Buenos Aires, and São Paulo, as well as a 2010 double bill with Menotti's The Telephone in Tours, using the 2006 co-production by Lausanne Opera and the Opéra Comique.

Buck Privates

It was re-released in 1948, and again on a double bill with Keep 'Em Flying in 1953.

Convention City

The project's newsletter reproduces a theatre advertisement showing the film on the bottom half of a double bill with Charlie Chan on Broadway.

David Elfick

This became one of the most successful Australian surf movies ever made, grossing over A$100,000 on its first release, followed by six-month run in London, where it ran on a double bill with René Laloux's Fantastic Planet and grossed over UK£100,000.

Diarmuid and Grania

The play, in three acts, was dedicated to Henry Wood, and its first performance was by Frank Benson's English Shakespearean Company at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin on 21 October 1901; it appeared in a double bill, being followed by Douglas Hyde's Casadh an tSugáin (The Twisting of the Hay Rope) performed by Irish-speaking amateurs supplied by the Gaelic League (the first Irish-language play ever seen on a regular stage).

Diggers in Blighty

The movie was released on a double bill with an Effee film, Harmony Row (1932).

Dr. Renault's Secret

The film has also been part of a double-bill with another 1942 horror film The Undying Monster.

Ernest Ferlita

Ferlita have been produced Off-Off Broadway at the Actor's Outlet Theatre under the direction of Ken Lowstetter: The Obelisk, and Two Cities, a double bill of two one-act plays The Mask of Hiroshima (published in Best Short Plays 1989) and The Bells of Nagasaki.

Girl Germs

Contributors to Girl Germs included Kathleen Hanna; Jean Smith of Mecca Normal; Sue P. Fox; Kaia Wilson; the editors of Double Bill, G.B. Jones, Jena von Brücker, Caroline Azar, Johnny Noxzema and Rex; Jen Smith; and Erin Smith of Bratmobile.

Kamen Rider Ryuki: Episode Final

Following the tradition of all Heisei Kamen Rider movies, it is a double bill with the movie for 2002's Super Sentai series Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger, Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger: Shushuuto the Movie, both of which premiered on August 17, 2002.

King Kong Escapes

The film opened in the United States in June 1968 on a double-bill with the Don Knotts comedy The Shakiest Gun in the West Contemporary American reviews were mixed.

Latin! or Tobacco and Boys

It was part of a double bill, the other play being written by Robert Farrar, then a fellow-undergraduate.

Le pauvre matelot

The Milhaud/Menotti double bill played later that month in Baltimore at the city's Lyric Theatre and at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City.

Leonard Treash

At that same opera house he notably created the role of The Chief of Police in the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball and portrayed the Father-In-Law in the United States premiere of Darius Milhaud's Le pauvre matelot which were performed in a double bill on 1 April 1937.

Lost in the Desert

It seems to have struck a particular chord in the UK, where it was released in cinemas as a double-bill with The Golden Voyage of Sinbad in 1974.

Molly Dodd

They did various productions – Spoon River Anthology, a concert titled From Our Bag, Pirandello's As You Desire Me, and a double-bill titled Those Mad Victorians, which the company took to Caltech in the late 1960s.

Plain Clothes Theatre Productions

In 2006 the company produced a double bill of plays by Canadian playwright George F. Walker from his 'Suburban Motel' collection of plays; namely Problem Child and Criminal Genius.

Ten Laps to Go

Ten Laps to Go is available under its original title from budget DVD companies; it is available from Alpha Video on a double-bill with Go-Get-'Em, Haines.

The Caddy

It was later re-released in 1964 on a double bill with another Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis picture, You're Never Too Young.

The Death of Bessie Smith

It premiered Off-Broadway at the York Playhouse on March 1, 1961, in a double bill with Albee's The American Dream. Directed by Lawrence Arrick, the "Nurse" was played by Rae Allen and Ben Piazza played "The Young Man".

The Delicate Delinquent

It was re-released in 1962 on a double bill with another Lewis film, The Sad Sack (1957).

The Flying Saucer

In 1953 the film was re-released in the USA by Realart Pictures Inc., on a double-bill with Atomic Monster, the retitled-reissue of Man Made Monster, originally released in 1941 by Universal Pictures.

The Secret of the Telegian

Herts-Lion International Corp. acquired the western hemisphere rights to the film in January 1964 and planned to release it theatrically in the US in February of that year on a double bill with Dungeons of Horror.

The Velvet Vampire

Roger Corman later claimed he was disappointed with the final product and released it on a double bill with an Italian horror movie, Scream of the Demon Lover.

The Zoo Story

Rejected by New York producers, the play premiered in West Berlin at the Schiller Theater Werkstatt on 28 September 1959 in a double bill with the German premiere of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape.

Utah Festival Opera

Naughty Marietta by Victor Herbert was the first work performed by the company in 1993, along with Puccini's La bohème and a double bill of Trial By Jury and The Impresario.

Window Water Baby Moving

Window Water Baby Moving was often screened on a double-bill with George C. Stoney's 1953 educational film, All My Babies.