Capulina Contra Los Monstruos (1974)
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Abbott and Costello weren't the only comedians to romp around with monsters.
Rock River Renegades (1942) Pressbook
Another Monogram Pictures distribution, Rock River Renegades stars Ray Corrigan, who performed many ape costume roles through the 1930s and 1940s. He also played the creature stowaway in It! The Terror from Beyond Space.
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The Ghost That Walks Alone (1944) Pressbook
Here's another ghost-inspired crime comedy (cromedy?) from Columbia Pictures. Some pages are out of order but this 8 page pressbook is complete. The 1940s saw a lot of movies using a ghostly theme in storyline or title or both. This one seems to use it mainly in the title, sadly.
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The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)
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Okay, giant mollusk monsters doesn't sound very scary, but the gooey stuff they spewed out was pretty disgusting. So there's that. One of my favorite 1950s monster movies. Of course, the men do all the heavy lifting and the women scream a lot. That speargun looks oddly placed, doesn't it?
The Living Ghost (1942) Pressbook
Another 1940s crime story with little to do with ghosts, courtesy of Monogram Pictures. Joan Woodbury played the Queen in Bride of Frankenstein.
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Whispering Ghosts (1942) Pressbook
Quite a bit of promotional push in this pressbook for Whispering Ghosts with Milton Berle and Willie Best. Best also starred with Bob Hope in The Ghost Breakers. Best's movie output was prolific, but according to Wikipedia "is sometimes reviled because he was often called upon to play stereotypically lazy, illiterate, and/or simple-minded characters in films. Of the 124 films he appeared in, he received screen credit in at least 77, an unusual feat for an African-American bit player."
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World Without End (1956)
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One of my favorite science fiction movies. As a young boy I was fascinated by the costumes and storyline. Here's the pressbook.
The Monster and the Girl (1941) Pressbook
A fascinating and entertaining blend of crime, noir, gorilla, and horror. Paramount's The Monster and the Girl starts off as a noir in tone and camerawork, but then ignores that and moves on to an ape-murdering-for-vengeance storyline. It gets my vote for the best man-in-gorilla-suit movie produced in the 1940s and possible the best, period. The story plays all the emotional angles, and tosses in a faithful dog for good measure (like in Man-Mad Monster, also released in 1941). There's something simply mesmerizing, odd, and sometimes head-scratching with the mad-scientist and gorilla cycle of horror movies, but this movie works it's magic and makes it, well, work! I highly recommend it. As for this pressbook, my word, it's amazing! The amount of promotion and article coverage reaches twenty packed pages.
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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Pressbook
Here's a great movie to watch on Halloween. Forget that the Wolf Man was cured earlier or that Dracula was dispatched in House of Dracula. Or even that Frankenstein's Monster got bogged down in House of Frankenstein; here they romp with mirth and madness, and contrary to the naysayer purists who lambaste this movie for its treatment of the classic monsters, this is an essential and worthy entry to the Universal Horror Mythos.
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The Uninvited (1944) Pressbook
One of the best haunted house movies ever made, watch this one late at night with the lights off. At 32 pages, this pressbook is almost as impressive as the movie. Of note is the Your Radio Campaign page, which reminds us of a time before social and commercial digital media. And of very special importance, this is the first movie to depict ghosts as real. Before this, there was always a rational reason to explain away the supernatural proceedings, usually fostered by criminal intent and delivered with comedy. Within the context of the Universal Monster horrors, it's also an interesting contrast: when Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Wolf man were seeking scientific cures for their "ailments," in other words, when Universal made their monsters rationally-existing as opposed to supernaturally, The Uninvited scared audiences with the real deal: No jokes, no slapstick, just good old-fashioned scares to chill the bones; and no explanation at the end to eliminate the supernatural as the cause, or leaving the audience with uncertainty such as in The Cat People (1942).
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Henry Aldrich Haunts a House (1943) Pressbook
Henry Aldrich steps into it again. That tag line, "got haunts in his pants!" wouldn't work today, I'm sure. But crazy fun, 1940's movie style.
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