Mexican Lobby Card:
Tarzan’s New York Adventure (1942)
My favorite Johnny Weismuller Tarzan movie: Tarzan's New York Adventure. This Mexican lobby card shows him enjoying the luxury of indoor plumbing.
December 31, 2015
Mexican Lobby Card:
Down Dakota Way (1949)
Here's a wholesome Mexican lobby card for Roy Roger's Down Dakota Way. Note how Trigger, his horse, gets top billing above Dale Evans and Pat Brady. I bet they worked for hay too. I was never a big fan of Rogers, mostly of Gene Autry (the Singing Cowboy). Don't forget it was Autry who gave us Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Of course, the rest is history.
Mexican Lobby Card:
Tarzan’s Secret Treasure (1941)
I've probably seen every Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movie at least four times. They'd pop up every weekend on local television (Sunday, I recall), along with Abbott and Costello movies. In this one, the natives truly are restless, causing much mayhem for Jane and Boy. I hear a new reboot of the Tarzan storyline is coming from Hollywood. I'm sure they'll muck it up with the usual flair for petulant-scripting you get from writers unfamiliar with how to handle a particular genre. Like jungle movies. Back in the 1940s, there was an aura of mystery and danger you could play with. Today, if Tarzan's not carrying a cell phone and selfie-stick, I'd wonder what the hell was wrong with him.
Mexican Lobby Card:
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
Caught this movie for the first time during a Famous Monsters Convention (I think it was an FM con) back in the 1970s. Hilarious movie. Photography and scenes are splendid.
Mexican Lobby Card:
Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl (1954)
It's the buccaneer's life for me in 2016. Swinging around the yardarm all day. Clinging tightly to platinum blond slave girls (with impeccable couture) while wielding my rapier with deft and deadly aim. And you get to wear awesome high boots and poofy shirts with floppy sleeves to work. Perfect.