Sophisticated illustration combines with an eerie scene to make this Un Mundo Nuevo (1957) lobby card a stunning example of skillful movie promotion: reading counter-clockwise from the skull, the use of blue as it bleeds into the blue-tinted skeleton implies these people are swimming toward death. (Note: due to a scanning error, the photo's border appears slightly broken at the top (to the right of center. I'll try and correct this in the future).
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