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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The colorful and provocative cover for this 1948 movie pressbook caught my eye. I'm sure Forbidden Women was a spliced together cheapie set for drive-in consumption. Lloyd Friedgen also released the "throbbing drama of shackled youth" Child Bride (1938). He also edited some episodes of The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1968). Go figure.
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Cornel Wilde was a very good director as well as an actor. In The Naked Prey he uses minimal dialog and relies on the tension of the chase. In the science fiction movie, No Blade of Grass, he again explores the struggle for survival, but on a larger social scale.
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Here's a nice Western action drama to brighten your Saturday matinee.
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One of my favorite film noirs, D.O.A is a bit sappy in the romantic dialog department but the movie still packs a wallop. Edmond O'Brien is perfect as Frank Bigelow, a guy torn between settling down with a great gal who adores him and his urge to sow some wild oats. Unfortunately for him, it gets complicated and the clock starts ticking. You want hard-boiled film noir? This is one of the classics.
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An incredible amount of merchandising went into promoting the Lone Ranger, even before he hit the theaters. With television episodes, comics, books, radio, toys, and General Mills and American Bakeries food products already gobbled up by kids daily, a movie would be easy to promote. Hi-Yo, Silver! indeed.
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I've not watched Fritz Lang's While the City Sleeps yet, but the pressbook is a large format promotion, and tie-up bonanza, for it. The cast is quite impressive and the pressbook highlights that, too.
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Remember when Sputnik was the least of our worries with Russia? If you do, here's a nostalgic trip down memory lane for you.
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Lots of sell and promotion fills this pressbook for The Scarlet Spear, a jungle movie "actually filmed in the jungle." From a chimp delivering the film reels, to street bally and product tie-ups, they covered all the bases; and tossed in a coloring page for good measure.
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This is the re-release pressbook for 1962. I'm willing to bet you never knew there was an Alfred Hitchcock Coloring Book to promote the movie! Well, only four pages, sure, but the "This is a seat in a movie theatre" page should be colored and framed. And you thought Roger Corman and William Castle were the only ones with a barker-bone in their bodies, didn't you?
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Here's a nice dry and dusty Western for you on a cold snowy day. Tension at Table Rock sports an eye-grabbing illustration in the poster art, daring you to blink twice. Not only is there a song tie-in to go along with the movie's action, there's also Hollywood Bread; no casting call needed, just butter.
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