Held over!

50 years ago this week (first weekend of April, 1970) in Oklahoma City, this ad with an interesting hook ran: These movies have been held over (presumably by what they used to call "popular demand") so they must be good!

Of the four, only MASH was a critical and commercial hit. Anne of the Thousand Days was a prestige hit, up for 10 Oscars (winning one) and winning several Golden Globes including best drama, but it was not a big box office draw. Marooned took in a fair amount of money but doesn't appear to have made back its production cost. The Adventurers, the only one of these I haven't seen, was a huge stink bomb. None of the others are particular favorites of mine--I didn't see the MASH movie until a few years after the MASH TV series premiered, and to me, the movie suffered.