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View from the upper level of the balcony showing the Odeon cinema in the Merrion Centre when it was newly built. It opened with a showing of 'The Fall of the Roman Empire' starring Alec Guiness and Sophie Lauren on 17th August 1964. It was the first cinema to be built in Leeds since the 1930s and cost ?100,000. The Merrion Centre was a 9 acre development of shops and leisure facilities designed by architects, Gillinson, Barnett & Partners. The film showing at the time this photograph was taken is 'The Spy with my Face' released in 1965 and starring Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo, David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin and Senta Berger as Serena. It was based on two 1964 episodes of the popular cult television series 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' The cinema closed on 1st October 1977. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Odeon Cinema Merrion Centre | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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