Hall Theatre

The old Hall Theatre still stands on Ninth St. with it's name proudly above a Panera Bread store that is located in what was it's lobby area. I believe the Hall may have been the oldest theater in Columbia but I cannot remember much about it. I saw one film there, an Italian black and white film about Jesus. It was controversial because of two reasons, first the director was a Communist (you know what they think of religion) and secondly the Jesus in this movie actually laughed with the children. It was filmed on location in the Holy Land and it was gritty but good. Too this day I cannot remember the name of it. Help me out if you can.

About 1o to 15 years ago the city thought about buying the Hall Theater for activities. After the inspection they decided not to because it had some definite structural problems that were too expensive to fix.