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Mexican Lobby Card: El Castillo De Las Momias De Guanajuato

 

Mexican Lobby Card: El Planeta De Las Mujeres Invasoras

This Mexican lobby card for The Planet of Female Invaders (1966) is so pulp science fiction 60s. The women aren't dressed well for inter-planetary travel, and those helmet-hats they're wearing are pretty wild.  (Here's the Azteca-style lobby card.)

Mexican Lobby Card: Venganza Apache (1960)

The usual elements of exploitative promotion are here: cowering, partially undressed female and a weapon held in an attacking posture. But due to an imbalance in the illustration, the ho-hum left side of this Mexican lobby card for Venganza Apache greatly lessens the impact of the more aggressive right half of the card. Also the proportions on all elements in the illustration aren't well thought out: one giant guy, three little heads, and a doll-sized woman. I hope the movie has more action than this lobby card and better thematic sense.

Mexican Lobby Card: En Carne Propia (1961)

Another visually charged Mexican lobby card, this time for the thriller En Carne Propia. Note the fearful female huddled against the unperturbed male, and the blood dripping down across the newsprint.  I can't make out what the shadowy figures are in the top middle of the card. I'm open to suggestions.

Mexican Lobby Card: El Camino De La Vida (1956)

The tone and mood of the illustration for this Mexican lobby card for El Camino De La Vida (The Road of Life) is poetic and emotionally charged, and tells a story all by itself.

Mexican Lobby Card: La Marca Del Cuervo (1958)

Highly connotative illustration and uncluttered layout give this Mexican lobby card for La Marca Del Cuervo its promotional power. Intrigue, action, and what I call the "western way" are embraced here.

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Mexican Lobby Card: La Mujer Tarzan (1932)

Blended use of the elephant photograph with the illustration gives a lively, and a little awkward, sensibility to this Mexican lobby card for The Savage Girl with Rochelle Hudson. Sadly she wears more clothes in the movie than in the illustration, and she walks around with a killer gorilla (Charles Gemora)--no, not the guy in the inset scene holding her savage body.

Mexican Lobby Card: Las Dos Galleras (1964)

Here's another Mexican lobby card for the duo of Kitty De Hoyos and Dacia Gonzalez. Not sure what the chickens are meant to convey, but I'll let you draw your own conclusions. Two words will come to mind, I'm sure. Very lively card showcasing the two women. Notice the absence of their usually brandished whips. 

Mexican Lobby Card: Aventuras De Las Hermanas X (1963)

The masked sisters ride again.

Mexican Lobby Card: Las Vengadoras Enmascaradas (1963)

Looks like Zorro has some competition. Careful attention devoted to this lobby card's layout and colors draws your eyes first to the masked characters on the left while inferring their capabilities at providing suitable action for this southwestern actioner. Note the diagonal flow of the card and how two characters, a cowboy on the right and a masked rider on the left, are facing each other. Perhaps a love interest is being hinted at?

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Mexican Lobby Card: Beyond Atlantis (1973)

My, what big eyes they have. I couldn't resist the inherent (unintentional?) humor in the illustration of this Mexican lobby card for La Atlantida, El Paraiso Perdido.