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Armed bandit steals `Jedi' print [message #54811] Fri, 03 May 2013 17:51
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Date: Wed, 6-Jul-83 22:27:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  6 22:27:00 1983
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From:  Roger H. Goun 

Associated Press

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- A print of the film ``Return of the Jedi'' was
stolen from a movie projectionist who was held hostage for two hours by an
armed robber, police said yesterday.

The projectionist, John J. Smith, told police the robber confronted him in
the parking lot of the Glenwood Theatres early yesterday and ordered him to
return to the projection room.

Smith said they entered the projection booth of one of the theater's
screening rooms and the gunman forced him to transfer the 70mm film from
large projection reels to smaller transport reels, which took about an
hour.

Barbour said the gunman then forced Smith to help him carry seven cases
containing the film outside and stack them in the parking lot.  The gunman
ordered Smith to remain in the projection room and not to call anyone for
at least 20 minutes.  Then the gunman cut the telephone line and fled about
2 a.m.

Jim Markley, operations manager for Dickinson Theatres, which operates the
Glenwood, said there would be no interruption in showing ``Return of the
Jedi,'' the third film in the ``Star Wars'' trilogy, because a replacement
had already been found.
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