Obscenity charge bedeviled Biograph Theatre in 1973
News Source : Richmond.com
News Summary
- The Biograph Theatre served as an outpost of cinematic culture in Richmond, offering arthouse and foreign films that rarely if ever made it to larger movie multiplexes
- For a brief period during its first two years, after-hours X-rated films landed its owners in court for an obscenity charge
- The theater’s legal troubles began in July 1973
For 15 years, the Biograph Theatre served as an outpost of cinematic culture in Richmond, offering arthouse and foreign films that rarely if ever made it to larger movie multiplexes.The Biograph ho [+5501 chars]
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