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Okay, so what if a young Joe Dante panned Cry of the Werewolf in an issue of Famous Monsters of Filmland. Sure, the poster art is the best thing about this movie, but at least you can read the Scary Wolf-Woman On Vegetable Diet for a laugh, anyway, on page 6.
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This Paramount airborne thriller has a nifty cast that includes Brian Donlevy, Dean Jagger, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, Zasu Pitts and others. It has the usual beautiful blonde-intoxicated male driven plot with a few twists and turns. Of particular interest for us jaded passengers is the United Airlines Boeing 247 and tour of airports. Those were the days.
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The poster art and unusual size (9 inches x 20 inches folded, 18 inches x 20 inches unfolded) grabbed my attention for this Underground (1941) pressbook. More pulp than noir in effect, but still noirish enough to be compelling. Here are the first few pages. To read the entire pressbook, download the ComicRack reader version. Even if you don't have that application, you can change the downloaded file extension to .zip instead of .cbz and extract the jpeg images. They're big, so best to view on a large screen.
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Here's another rare pressbook: Tower of London with Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone. A wild and wonderful 17.5 x 23 inches when opened to read. I'm not sure if any pages are missing as I found this one in loose sheets. But what's here is still stellar. Aside from the auctions selling the covers alone, this original release pressbook has not been shown before. You lucky devils. Universal really overdid themselves with this one. The Showmanship page lists really cool theater lobby promos. You will need a big screen to view this beauty in all its glory.
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