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Remembering the nights in the backseat at the drive in!

Jun 06, 2015

There was nothing quite as fun as a night at the drive in with your man… And at every age, the whole experience meant something completely different! There’s only a few left throughout Australia now and this week marked the 82nd anniversary of the drive in movie! So tonight, share your memories of the nights on the backseat at the drive in! Tell us, who did you go with… And (if it’s legal enough) what did you do there?

We all have our memories and some are just hilarious. We’ve listed some of the best and most popular drive in films from our era! Which did you see?

“The drive-in was a perfect date location with the parking for a little necking already provided. Steamy windshields were evident in all directions. I guess this is where my first love for the drive-in resulted as a teenager with raging hormones. Of course many girls’ parents forbid their daughters to go on dates at the drive-in to protect them from guys like me. My date and I would attend even against her parents’ wishes. I do remember Goldfinger, starring Sean Connery, was my first movie I attended with a date”.

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.Dir: Norman Jewison With: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates

Barbarella (1968)

In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people. Dir: Roger Vadim With: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg

Psycho (1960)

A Phoenix secretary steals $40,000 from her employer’s client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock With: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles

The Graduate (1967)

Recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock is trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, who happens to be the wife of his father’s business partner and then finds himself falling in love with her daughter, Elaine. Dir: Mike Nichols With: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Epic story of a mysterious stranger with a harmonica who joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad. Dir: Sergio Leone With: Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.

Dir: George Roy Hill With: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

A somewhat romanticized account of the career of the notoriously violent bank robbing couple and their gang.

Dir: Arthur Penn With: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City.

Dir: John Schlesinger With: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles

The Godfather (1972)

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

Dir: Francis Ford Coppola With: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter.Dir: Jim Sharman With: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick

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