Remember when we went to the theater to be mystified by foreign cultures and different life-styles, way back when? Now we're just mortified. Mostly. What drew me to this 11 x 17 inches, 8 page, pressbook, was the cover. Very eye-catching, very colorful with its red and black inks.
There was a hypnosis craze? Anyway, this 11x17 inches pressbook for Nightmare is well done. Good illustrations and color choices make it pop. Hypnosis would figure prominently in other mysteries that followed later, including episodes of television's Columbo and The Avengers.
I dare you to keep a straight face after reading "Set of 30 alluring, patron pulling 8x10 stills featuring Girls, Girls, Girls." Sure, I might burn in hell for posting pressbooks like this, but I know I'll have a lot of company ;)
The late 1950s to early 1960s had a certain style of scripting and visual direction for female leads, which often promoted through tight, and skimpy, clothing with slip on shoes. Guys held the guns, of course, and seemed to always roll up their sleeves and slick back their hair. Lex Barker made a wonderful Tarzan, by the way.
Continuing our 1970s trash cinema theme for today...and I'd say the only kidnapped and abused individuals regarding this movie would be the audience suffering through it.
Here's a pressbook for Macumba, though I can't seem to find more information on this movie. It's not the Macumba Love I've posted before. I like the use of color paper and brown ink on this one. I'm a sucker for any jungle-related movie, too, so I had to have it ;) And just look at that tagline "Like the Quicksands of Life, powerful...evil...the Love Potion of Green Hell!" Say what? Nonsensical, but wild, right?
A funny mystery from Neil Simon with a great cast.
This Italian language B-movie, also known as Kidnapped to Mystery Island, stars Guy Madison and Peter van Eyck. I'd see it if they did the coffee exploit, for sure.
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Twenty pages, 11 x 17 inches; impressive movie pressbook with a lot of publicity and exploitation, as well as poster art, to sell the movie to theaters and their audiences.
Once again, Tony Rivers strikes, sending us this movie pressbook for Tarzan's Hidden Jungle. He notes: "Finally got the first Gordon Scott Tarzan movie pressbook complete and scanned it (tricky since it's 12" x 18" and the largest of all my pressbooks), so I had to scan each page at least three times and merge them in Gimp, but here it is." Thanks, TR!
Hey, it's a Roger Corman "classic." No relation to the Swamp People series on the History Channel, though.
Exciting poster art and energetic ad campaign make this pressbook awesome.
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