I woulda slept thru Escape and woken in time for Battle, Zoob.
I used to love allnighters as they often screened films id missed. I went to a few western ones: one i remember was Lawman, Hunting Party, Spikes Gang, Death rides a Horse and Navajo Joe. I watched the lot but i was so tired on the train home.
They didn't have all night shows in the 1970's when I went to the drive-in. Only triple features during summer holidays like Memorial Day, and Labor Day. I would have stayed all night for all 5 APE movies if I could.
Those movie ads are great. There are several like that on facebook under: Nostalgic Drive-In Theater Newspaper Ads
On Memorial Day weekend in 1972, when I was in college, we went to two five-movie, all-night shows on back-to-back evenings at different drive-ins. I fell asleep during the fifth show of each one, and to this day, I've never seen those two films. I remember the programs:
Friday Night Diamonds Are Forever Von Richthofen and Brown Wild Riders Blood on Satan's Claw The Beast In the Cellar
Saturday Night Darling Lili The Molly Maguires Shoot Out The Boys In the Band Sudden Terror
I think that the Muncie Drive-In cheated a little when they advertised their all-night program as being rated [G]. In the summer of 1974, when Fox re-released all the films as an official quintuple-feature, the program was advertised as being rated [PG]. That's because CONQUEST had been rated [PG], and MPAA rules say that multiple-film programs have to display the individual rating of each film or carry the single rating of the most-restricted film.
Don't recall Apes all night at the drive-in, but I do remember Apes double features during summer break. That along with Disney double features, you usually got one live action film and one animated film.
On Memorial Day weekend in 1972, when I was in college, we went to two five-movie, all-night shows on back-to-back evenings at different drive-ins. I fell asleep during the fifth show of each one, and to this day, I've never seen those two films.
I located the ads for those two all-nite programs:
