Plestex Theatre

Best deal to go watch on a big screen.

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Did you know that the good ol’ Plestex opened in 1950 as the Leon Theatre, and was originally a single screen theater? Well, it was! And did you know that good ol’ Gidney Talley, who had previously owned and operated the good ol’ Hi-Ho Theatre (at 4610 South Presa in San Antonio - the building is still there, go look at it sometime, it’s pretty cool), moved to Pleasanton (after the archdiocese of San Antonio shut down the Hi-Ho for playing dirty movies), and along with his son, Gidney Talley Jr., bought it and converted it to the four screen theater it is today? Well, they did! Gidney Talley was a really interesting dude, one of the original “Forty Thieves,” a real bonified old school roadshow carny type exploitation movie guy, who famously bought and toured with the infamous 1948 sex hygiene film THE STORY OF BOB AND SALLY. Later on, him and his son Gidney Jr. (and some fella named Steve Coulter), started the San Antonio-based (and later, Pleasanton-based) Magus Films, who produced such fine drive-in flicks as THE SENATOR (“catches Washington with its pants down!”), SEXUAL FANTASIES U.S.A. (“the first AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION adult film!”), and (the recently released on blu-ray by AGFA) THINGS TO COME (“a film that gives you a good hard look at the girls of the future!”). Heck, Gidney Jr. even directed a movie of his very own, the super rare 1973 made-in-San Antonio Douglas Sirk’ian amputee love story, PRELUDE TO HAPPINESS - with scenes shot at the ol’ Turtle Creek Country Club! But the thing that tickles me the most about the Talley’s is that when they promoted their big FESTIVAL OF THE UNDEAD triple feature spook-show, they actually drove around the country with a mummy named “Count Demonicus” in their car that they would display in movie theater lobbies (“one look will haunt you forever”) - and who turned out to be an actual for-real embalmed corpse! There is so much cool and weird obscure movie history at the good ol’ Plestex, so please add it to your list of places to visit someday, you won’t be sorry!

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