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If Roger Ebert had been inspired to see the film by a print advertisement, it would have looked like this:

I got this from the Chicago Tribune archives.

The earliest mention of the film in this particular paper was December 27, 1968, in the movie advert section.  It was a stealth deal: the film did not open downtown and then go to the nabes.

It looks as if this first run was over by January 13.  I found very few ads after that, and never anything more than simple text.  No reviews, no news stories, no protests, letters-to-the-editor … nothing.

Ebert’s review, and discussion thereof, would have been in the rival Sun-Times.

Doctor Who and the Daleks was the frequent co-feature.  Many theaters ran a third feature of their own choosing in those days.  I note that the Empress Theater ran those with Hombre.  The Lex Theater with Apache Rifles, replacing the last with The Bounty Hunter the next week.  The 66 Drive-In in Lagrange ran those two with Ghidrah, the Three Header Monster.  The Peoples' Theater ran them with Coogan’s Bluff.

The Colony, Marquette and Hi-Way were a three-theater chain in that they used to run joint ads.  All these sites were fairly near my own neighborhood.

The Peoples' was in walking distance of my high school, and I used to go there a lot.  They always had three features, minimum.  I spent many evenings there watching two never Hammer films plus one oldie, or maybe three vintage numbers a few years old.

Note that no ratings are mentioned, though an ad block explains G, M, R and X.

Note that Colony listing for Camelot. It’s officially a 179-minute film, explaining the 2:00, 5:15 and 8:30 times. I’d seen it during the downtown run with my high school English class – we were reading Idylls of the King. We took our mom to see it during the neighborhood run, but found that by this time they’d shortened it to get in an extra showing. How? Easy, they cut redundant stuff, like the final chorus of every song (it was a musical). Just the same words sung over right? No one will miss ‘em. What do the simple folk do? Hell if I know!