Name: Mahoning Road Show: MS .45 & VICE SQUAD (on 35mm)
Start: 2025-02-28T20:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-28T23:45:00-05:00
Location: Philadelphia Film Society

Mahoning Road Show: MS .45 & VICE SQUAD (on 35mm)

Spend a night at the Drive-In at the Philadelphia Film Society on Friday, February 28th, when Pennsylvania’s world-famous Mahoning Drive-In Theater and PFS present the 2025 “Mahoning Road Show”!
Replicating the experience of seeing a vintage 1980s 35mm double feature under the stars, minus the foggy windows and mosquitoes!
Mahoning operator and film programmer Virgil Cardamone and General Manager Mark Nelson will be on hand to introduce a pair of early 80s revenge movies, two bicoastal tales of crime-ridden streets not for the faint of heart, Abel Ferrara’s MS. 45 (1981), and Gary Sherman’s VICE SQUAD (1983), along with vintage 35mm trailers, snack bar ads, and a classic intermission reel between the films!
MS .45 stars Zoe Lund as a woman brutalized in crime-ridden New York City, who decides to pick up the titular hand cannon and take the law into her own hands to clean up the streets. A gritty, grim slice of NYC urban horror, director Abel Ferrara (BAD LIEUTENANT) depicts Fear City in all its twinkling terror.
We then hop to the opposite coast for a dive into the neon slime of Los Angeles with VICE SQUAD (1983), with single mom streetwalker Season Hubley teaming up with hothead cop Gary Swanson to take down the sadistic pimp Ramrod (Wings Hauser), under the shimmering lights of Sunset Boulevard.
As with any night at the Drive-In, one ticket gets you TWO big features and a thousand thrills, just remember to replace the speaker on the pole before you leave and keep your headlights off the screen during the show!
**(The Philadelphia Film Society and Mahoning Drive-In Theater wish to warn patrons of the frank and violent nature of this program, depicting assault and rigorous retribution. Neither organization condones vigilantism or naming your child “Ramrod”.)