The Mexican lobby card for The Phantom Empire (1935), or so I'm guessing. The movie scene fits, as do the names Frankie Darro and Dorothy Christie; just not too sure about the rest shown on this card. Every so often Mexican lobby cards would use a movie scene from an entirely different movie. Go figure. The Phantom Empire is one of my favorite movie serials, by the way.
I have absolutely no idea what's going on in the bottom photo.
The Bowery Boys get into trouble. Again. Wonderful action scene photo pasted onto this one color lobby card is attention-grabbing. The layout conveys camaraderie and adventure, a little danger, and comedy.
The interior 1 page fold-out design of this small-sized (12 inches by 6 inches folded) German language pressbook for 13 Ghosts (1960) first drew my interest, but the comic bookish graphics and photo layout were strong enough to make me bid for this classy marketing material being offered on emovieposter.com.
Thanks to Terry Michitsch, pressbook, sci fi, and Ray Harryhausen aficionado, for providing these scans of the This Island Earth pressbook. One of my favorite monsters, the Metaluna Mutant, perks up this movie, as does the story of a dying world overwhelmed by war. No matter what anyone says, I like the slick slacks MM is wearing. Sure, he was supposed to have bare legs showing, but the special effects people had some trouble with that. So pants it is.
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