As I have already said, I was not quite around yet in 1977, though I came pretty soon after. Reading COs account reminds me of things my dad has told me. He had heard from just about everyone that this movie was fantastic and had to be seen. He took my mom to see it some weeks after its release and couldn't believe it when he got to the theater it was so jam packed and the line was so long. They were completely sold out so they came back to see it another day. He said that the theater was so full that they had people sitting on the floor of the aisles and you could not have gotten up to use the rest room in the middle of the movie if you had wanted too. Sometime later after it left theaters and the hype had died down, but before ESB was released, he was at some kind of get together with a bunch of friends and they had checked out a section of reel from Star Wars from the local library. It was a piece of the trench run at the end of the movie. They hooked up the projector and watch that same scene over and over again. Everytime it would finish someone would ask if they could run it again.