Waimate for film premiere
“Bad Blood,” the film version of the Stanley Graham killings on the West Coast just over 40 years ago, may help to keep cinema alive in the small South Canterbury town of Waimate. Kerridge Odedn has decided to screen the New Zealand premiere at Waimate, instead of on the West Coast, to help raise funds for the community to buy its threatened Regent Theatre. The cinema’s owners decided last year that, the Regent should be put on the market. . There is one tenuous link between Waimate and .the killing rampage by Graham at Kowhitirangi, 20 kilometres from Hokitika, in 1941. After a manhunt which attracted publicity as far afield as Nazi Germany, Graham was eventually shot by a Constable Quirke, of Waimate.
Now, box-office takings for the first screenings will go towards the price of $90,000 agreed on between Kerridge Odeon and Waimate’s Regent Theatre Trust Board for the purchase of the theatre. About $5500 has been received by. the trust.
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