Pressbooks (Non-Horror)
Pressbook: Jungle Heat (1957)
The late 1950s to early 1960s had a certain style of scripting and visual direction for female leads, which often promoted through tight, and skimpy, clothing with slip on shoes. Guys held the guns, of course, and seemed to always roll up their sleeves and slick back their hair. Lex Barker made a wonderful Tarzan, by the way.
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Pressbook: Nurses for Sale (1971)
Continuing our 1970s trash cinema theme for today…and I'd say the only kidnapped and abused individuals regarding this movie would be the audience suffering through it.
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Movie Pressbook: Macumba
Here's a pressbook for Macumba, though I can't seem to find more information on this movie. It's not the Macumba Love I've posted before. I like the use of color paper and brown ink on this one. I'm a sucker for any jungle-related movie, too, so I had to have it 😉 And just look at that tagline "Like the Quicksands of Life, powerful…evil…the Love Potion of Green Hell!" Say what? Nonsensical, but wild, right?
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Movie Pressbook: Mystery of Thug Island (1964)
This Italian language B-movie, also known as Kidnapped to Mystery Island, stars Guy Madison and Peter van Eyck. I'd see it if they did the coffee exploit, for sure.
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Movie Pressbook: Beat the Devil (1953)
Twenty pages, 11 x 17 inches; impressive movie pressbook with a lot of publicity and exploitation, as well as poster art, to sell the movie to theaters and their audiences.
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Movie Pressbook: Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle (1955)
Once again, Tony Rivers strikes, sending us this movie pressbook for Tarzan's Hidden Jungle. He notes: "Finally got the first Gordon Scott Tarzan movie pressbook complete and scanned it (tricky since it's 12" x 18" and the largest of all my pressbooks), so I had to scan each page at least three times and merge them in Gimp, but here it is." Thanks, TR!
Movie Pressbook: Swamp Women (1956)
Hey, it's a Roger Corman "classic." No relation to the Swamp People series on the History Channel, though.
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Movie Pressbook: Satellite in the Sky (1956)
Exciting poster art and energetic ad campaign make this pressbook awesome.
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