Michigan Daily Digital Archives - October 27, 1977 (vol. 88, iss. 43) - Image 5

Michigan Daily Digital Archives - October 27, 1977 (vol. 88, iss. 43) - Dirty Old Man

A wire service story about Walter Bell, 87-year-old owner of the Capri Theater in Dewey, Oklahoma, which had gained a reputation as the "Dewey Dirties." Bell had been showing "art films" and what he called "semi-art" films since 1964, claiming it was the only way he could make a living from the theater, which was barred from showing first-run films while they were running four miles down the road in Bartlesville. Bell was charged with obscenity the year before but had been acquitted.