Mexican Lobby Card: La Legion Fantasma
The Mexican lobby card for the Republic Pictures serial Government Agents vs. Phantom Legion (1951).
April 2015
Mexican Lobby Card: Revelacion Siniestra
Not sure if this is a Mexican lobby card for one of Chester Morris' Boston Blackie movies, but it's striking and easily grabs your attention.
Follow That Crazy Rabbit
Zombos’ Closet…a vast trove of endearingly cheap thrills, including movie and book reviews, and scans of his collections of cinema pressbooks, goofy paper-cutout Halloween decorations, and his amazing collection of Mexican lobby cards from B-grade films. If you have time to descend into a serious rabbit-hole of marvelous trash-culture nostalgia, visit that site just as soon as you possibly can.” (DangerousMinds.net)
Mexican Lobby Card:
Sed De Sangre (1961)
The Mexican lobby card for Bloodlust! (1961). Great colors, illustrated terror, and a screaming fear inset scene. How can you go wrong?
Movie Herald: Change of Mind (1969)
Surprisingly, given the current developments in planned head transplants, this is a more topical movie than it was when originally released: "But we still can't forget the absurdity of the premise. A BRAIN transplant?" (Roger Ebert's chief complaint, reviewing this movie, in 1969)
Movie Herald: Eye of the Cat (1969)
My favorite movie heralds are the jumbo-sized newspaper type. The Planet of the Apes series made good use of them. Here’s the one for Eye of the Cat.
Halloween Pumpkin With Legs
Because I know you're already thinking about Halloween, here's Betty Grable, a happy pumpkin, and a little bedtime reading for you.
Movie Pressbook:
Jungle Jim in Voodoo Tiger
The movie pressbook for Voodoo Tiger (1952). This is a 6-page foldout. I've mixed up the order of the pages but they're all here.
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Mexican Lobby Card:
Los Espadachines De La Reina
Yes, The Happy Musketeers (1961) is a weird movie. For kids. Great child-friendly illustration too, especially the swooning woman shackled to the torture wheel. Kids love that stuff for sure.
Movie Pressbook: Soylent Green
A very well constructed color noir, Soylent Green also warned us about global warming years before it started to take hold of our attention. Good science fiction always tells us what we don't want to hear.
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