From Zombos' Closet

Jonathan Frid: Fools and Fiends

I wonder if anyone had recorded this? See the not so positive review from the Chicago Tribune toward the end of the post.

Mexican Lobby Card: Munster, Go Home! (1966)

Here's the lively Mexican lobby card for Munster, Go Home!, Los Adorables Monstruos.

Mexican Lobby Card: Stranger from Venus (1954)

Here's the Mexican lobby card for Stranger from Venus (1954), Venus Nos Ataca. A little rough in its transition from left to right, the card's illustration elements are a bit confusing as to what this movie is about. The movie is also known as Immediate Disaster.

Mexican Lobby Card: Missile to the Moon (1958)

A big spider, rock guys, and moon maidens in distress. Must be the 1950s. Not the rip-off done with the illustration in the top right corner. I like the addition of the bubble helmet though. I recall the Flash Gordon model kit came with a bubble helmet. The kit didn't come with a fair maiden clinging to his side, though. Now that would have been some model kit.

Mexican Lobby Card: Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars

One of my favorite serials as well as lobby cards. This Mexican lobby card version for Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938), Un Viaje a Marte, is exciting. Great illustration and the movie scene matches the illustration in the top right corner. Perfect.

Mexican Lobby Card: Korea Patrol (1951)

Kinetic illustration with heavily shadowed combatants contrasted against a bright color make this Mexican lobby card for Patrulla Koreana  a romanticized art piece for the ugly actions of war. (See an alternate version, Los Tigres De Korea.)

Mexican Lobby Card: Urubu (1948)

Here's a luridly illustrated Mexican lobby card for Urubu (aka Urubu, The Vulture People). Menacing, almost silhouetted people, a bosomy white girl in dire danger (and let's not forget the skimpy, inappropriate clothing, for jungle hiking), make this a memorable lobby. The movie is probably a boring jungle documentary so they had to spice it up somehow.

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Mexican Lobby Card: El Pantano Siniestro

Mexican Lobby Card: Tres Horas Para Morir (1954)

Mexican Lobby Card: Bandoleros De Texas (1941)

Mexican Lobby Card: Tres Horas Para Morir (1954)

Here's the Mexican lobby card for Three Hours to Kill, with Dana Andrews and Donna Reed. Nice, action-packed layout, comfortably balanced across the corners with an eye-catching color arrangement. Within a second or two, you know who the leads are (note the two-pistol packing cowboy at top left, in the background, and Donna Reed and Dana Andrews in the foreground), and the potential trouble stirring things up (left and right at bottom, and the inset scene). A sophisticated, well thought through card.

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Professor Kinema Remembers Betsy Palmer

Movie Herald: The Abominable Snowman (1957)

Cool Monster Stuff Seen On eBay: Munsters Whitman Coloring Book

Cool Monster Stuff Seen On eBay: Shogun Godzilla (1977)

Pressbook: Return of Chandu (1934) Advertising Book

Here's a very special pressbook from the closet vault. It's the 12 x 17.5 inches Advertising Book for The Return of Chandu. This, the Publicity Book, and a theater giveaway Chandu Mask were presented in a large, eye-grabbing folder. Quite an impressive promotional presentation for this serial starring Bela Lugosi.

Return of Chandu Pressbook Presentation Folder

This is the large (12 x 18.5 inches), attention-getting, pressbook presentation folder that the Return of Chandu promotional materials were held in. Note the two grommets in the middle, representing the door knobs: I'm guessing there was a ribbon or ornate string that tied the two front panels closed. Quite a presentation to theaters for this action-packed and melodramatic serial headed by Bela Lugosi as Chandu. See the Publicity pressbook , Advertising pressbook, and the theater giveaway Chandu mask this folder contained.

More Stuff in the Closet

Pressbook: Jungle Heat (1957)

Pressbook: A Study in Terror (1965)

Movie Pressbook: Macumba

Pressbook: Return of Chandu (1934)Publicity Book

Movie Herald: The Abominable Snowman (1957)

Pressbook: Chandu on the Magic Island (1935)

Only 4 pages, but packed with promotional material for Chandu on the Magic Island, with Bela Lugosi. The original serial was edited down to 2 movies, The Return of Chandu and Chandu on the Magic Island. One of Lugosi's best roles, but often forgotten between his Dracula and Ygor triumphs.

 

Mexican Lobby Card: Crepusculo En Las Sierras (1950)

Here's the Mexican lobby card for Roy Rogers' Twilight in the Sierras (1950).