Crime Pays, Just Not Much
Mexican Lobby Cards
Here's a mix of it's-a-crime Mexican lobby cards to keep you on the straight and narrow.
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Opio (1949) Mexican Lobby Card
The movie is listed as a crime drama, and the Opio, La Droga Maldita Mexican lobby cards hint at something sinister and unsavory.
The Man from Laramie (1955) Pressbook
The ballyhoo suggested in this pressbook for The Man from Laramie goes from the typical to the…soap models. Very interesting. We lost a lot of fun marketing when the Internet made pushing a movie too easy.
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The Ghost (1963) Pressbook
Atmospheric and it has Barbara Steele. Comic reader version: Download The Ghost Pressbook
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Mexican Lobby Card
A thrilling lobby card to be sure. Peter Cushing makes an energetic Holmes, although they should have kept the glowing paint on the hound, instead of the mask.
Mark of the Gorilla (1950) Mexican Lobby Card
Apes menacing under-dressed women is a B-movie staple. Here's your example of the day courtesy of Mark of the Gorilla. Here's the pressbook.
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Jungle Stampede (1950)
Mexican Lobby Card
Released by Republic Pictures, Jungle Stampede was condemned by the National Legion of Decency; which, not to be confused with the Legion of Doom, was a more sinister legion. I also wonder if the NLoD was actually a bonafide legion or more like a bunch of let's-meet-on-Sunday-over-coffee and condemn some movies we don't want anyone to see people with little else to do.
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Spooks Run Wild (1941) Pressbook
A fun romp pairing the Monogram studio's popular Bela Lugosi and the East Side Kids. Available prints are very murky today, but you can still appreciate the gags and spook house setting. This was originally released around Halloween, so I'm sure it had a good run in the theaters.
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The Lodger (1944) Mexican Lobby Card
An atmospherically photographed take on Jack the Ripper, The Lodger's Laird Cregar, the star villain, gets second billing on this Mexican lobby card and the credits. A travesty given his mesmerizing performance. He died too soon. Vincent Price delivered his eulogy.
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Let’s Get Tough (1942) Pressbook
Wikipedia has a very good write up on this wartime B movie. The East Side Kids tangled with Bela Lugosi in Spooks Run Wild, and Bela also tangled with the Black Dragon saboteurs in his movie, Black Dragons.
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Chiller Carnival of Blood Pressbook
There's nothing like a bloody movie marathon to spend the night with. Just stick this one in a Times Square theater circa 1970s and the milieu would be perfect.
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The Green Slime (1968) Mexican Lobby Card
So bad it's fun. Here's the pressbook. I recall seeing this in the theater on its first run. I was a kid, but even then I realized how awful this was. Check my take on its silliness in Silly Monsters in Silly Movies.