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Mexican Lobby Card: La Marca Del Cuervo (1958)

Highly connotative illustration and uncluttered layout give this Mexican lobby card for La Marca Del Cuervo its promotional power. Intrigue, action, and what I call the "western way" are embraced here.

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Blended use of the elephant photograph with the illustration gives a lively, and a little awkward, sensibility to this Mexican lobby card for The Savage Girl with Rochelle Hudson. Sadly she wears more clothes in the movie than in the illustration, and she walks around with a killer gorilla (Charles Gemora)--no, not the guy in the inset scene holding her savage body.

Double Bill Pressbook: The Monster That Challenged the World and The Vampire

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Mexican Lobby Card: Las Dos Galleras (1964)

Here's another Mexican lobby card for the duo of Kitty De Hoyos and Dacia Gonzalez. Not sure what the chickens are meant to convey, but I'll let you draw your own conclusions. Two words will come to mind, I'm sure. Very lively card showcasing the two women. Notice the absence of their usually brandished whips. 

Mexican Lobby Card: Aventuras De Las Hermanas X (1963)

The masked sisters ride again.

Mexican Lobby Card: Las Vengadoras Enmascaradas (1963)

Looks like Zorro has some competition. Careful attention devoted to this lobby card's layout and colors draws your eyes first to the masked characters on the left while inferring their capabilities at providing suitable action for this southwestern actioner. Note the diagonal flow of the card and how two characters, a cowboy on the right and a masked rider on the left, are facing each other. Perhaps a love interest is being hinted at?

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Giant Horror Show Standee

I spotted this on eBay. I had thought theater standees were fairly modern in conception. Wrongo. But they certainly didn't carry around cell phones or pocket cameras back then, so I'm guessing this was used more as advertisement than a backdrop for selfies.

Mexican Lobby Card: Orlak, El Infierno De Frankenstein

Do you notice the odd contrast between the illustration and inset scene of this Mexican lobby card for The Hell of Frankenstein (1960)? 

Mexican Lobby Card: Bomba En El Bosque Del Terror

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