The double feature, also known as a double bill, was a motion picture industry phenomenon in which theatre managers would exhibit two films for the price of one, supplanting an earlier format in which one feature film and various short subject reels would be shown.
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Famous quotes containing the words double and/or feature:
“He does me double wrong
That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.”
—George III (1738–1820)