Wally Veevers, who did the special effects for this movie, Satellite in the Sky, went on to 2001: A Space Odyssey and Superman. Here's the pressbook. The Mexican lobby card is colorful but slapdash, and while somewhat stylish, doesn't do much for the actual storyline in the movie.
Here's the Mexican lobby card for Black Sunday, director Tim Burton's favorite horror movie. Mario Bava was inspired by the horror story Viy.
A few bats, a blood-red dripping rose, and a silent scream lend much atmosphere to this Mexican lobby card for Roger Vadim's Blood and Roses. The inset scene does lessen the tension for horror, but overall, this card uses only a few elements that manage to convey a lot.
I can't help but find this Mexican lobby card for The Vampire and the Ballerina rather humorous. That look on the vampire's face and the somewhat distracted gaze of the bosomy victim is not horrific at all.
Republic Studios produced a lot of B movies and serials up until the 1950s. While you can consider them one of the Poverty Row outfits (and I don't use that term pejoratively), their movies may be cheap, but they were action-packed, fun cliff-hangers that filled the theaters week after week. One of the earliest studios to provide the burgeoning television market with their movies, the shift from theater to television viewing eventually shut down its feature film production. Here are some Mexican lobby cards to savor.
Trader Tom of the China Seas (1954)
Here's the Mexican lobby card for Burn, Witch, Burn! (aka Night of the Eagle). Peter Cushing decided to do Captain Clegg instead of this one.
According to Wikipedia's entry on this movie, Hammer had acquired the rights to make the movie in 1958, but the British censors wouldn't allow its production (no reason for this is cited in the entry), so the rights were then sold to AIP. I wonder what a British production would have done, compared to this Italian-American one. You can read the pressbook here.
I'm assuming this is a Mexican lobby card for Edgar Allan Poe: Master of Horror. I believe this Argentine movie can be found on YouTube, but no English subtitles. The card is quite a busy mix of images without any actors named; and the inset scene doesn't work well with the ghoulish imagery either.
Talk about keeping a stiff upper lip, Boris Karloff does that and more in this Mexican lobby card for The Haunted Strangler.
With villains dressed in spookshow-styled skeleton costumes, a stubby T-Rex (hey, that's what it looks like!), a nasty looking monkey, and a sarong-dressed native (more or less), I'd go out on a limb and see this Jungle Jim entry from Columbia Pictures. There's even an evil scientist and a missing football player crammed into the plotline. Wow.
Lots of stock footage and a Mexican lobby card that tosses in a gratuitous bosom make Forbidden Jungle more like Avoid This Jungle. The only saving grace is a man-in-gorilla-suit fighting a tiger. Well, okay, a saving grace for those of us who are into man-in-ape-suit kinds of stuff.
This movie has more titles than monsters, but the Mexican lobby card sums it up pretty well.
