From Zombos' Closet

Mexican Lobby Card: Racket Busters

Racket Busters (1938) with Humphrey Bogart.

Mexican Lobby Card: El Zorro De Jalisco

Mexican Lobby Card: Baru, El Hombre De La Selva

Do you also think of Gilligan's Island while looking at this lobby card? Note where the ape's eyes are looking. Of course. She looks like Ginger, right?

Mexican Lobby Card: Santo Y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos

Mexican Lobby Card: The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues

The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1955).

Mexican Lobby Card: Borneo, La Bestia De Satan

Mexican Lobby Card: Special Mission Lady Chaplin

I suppose I should explain this one for Special Mission Lady Chaplin (1966), but really, do I need to? It's colorful, suggestive (okay, very suggestive), and sells the promise of brute-force action and quick romance quite well, along with its promising long-barreled guns and large, lively submarines. It showcases more cold war intrigue, which comes after Daniela Bianchi's 1963 appearance in From Russia With Love. 

 

Mexican Lobby Card: Topper Returns

The Mexican lobby card for Topper Returns (1941). Simple, direct, and conveys the ghostly, but humorous, storyline well enough. The four movie scenes are printed on a separate card that's pasted onto the lobby. You see this done more often in the 1940s and earlier lobbies, but of course it was done for the smaller Azteca lobbies (although Aztecas were printed in the United States) much later, too.

Mexican Lobby Card: Pepito Y El Monstruo

Mexican Lobby Card: X-15

An early film, X-15 (1961) from the director of Superman and The Omen, Richard Donner.

Mexican Lobby Card: Untouched

This sultry Mexican lobby card for Sombra Verde (Untouched, 1954) is simply exquisite. With both femme fatale and snake colored green, I'll let you draw your own conclusions as to which has more bite.

Mexican Lobby Card: Taste the Blood of Dracula

Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970). Another cut and paste effort, which was a layout favorite (cheap, quick, no artist needed) for many Mexican lobby cards done in the 1970s.