From Zombos' Closet

Movie Pressbook: Charlie Chan in The Sky Dragon (1949)

From the Tony Rivers collection comes this pressbook for Charlie Chan (Roland Winters) in The Sky Dragon. Classic television fans of Superman will also notice Noel Neill's name is in the credits.

Movie Pressbook: Charlie Chan in Dangerous Money (1946)

Courtesy of Tony Rivers comes this Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) pressbook for Dangerous Money. (Note: Please defer any modern interpretations and criticisms of Hollywood's casting choices and stereotypical characterizations to our lawyer, Mr. Jimmy Sosumi.)

Movie Pressbook: Death Machines (1976)

I recently acquired this pressbook from eBay, mostly because the poster art is so 1970s exploitative gritty and cheesy-futuristic, you know?. Sadly, there are no "death machines" like the munching maw illustrated here. The story revolves around martial artists injected with a drug to make them killing, zombie-like, machines of death.  Get it? I'm not sure if the audience did.

Movie Pressbook: Batman (Adam West)

PIFF! POW! BAM!   Dont' touch that mouse! It's the Batman pressbook from Tony Rivers.

Movie Pressbook: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Here's a nifty Halloween treat from Tony Rivers. He notes: "This one's a little tricky...I used to have the press book for ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN and photocopied several pages.  I also have the Philip Riley script book,  but he only had 11 of the 12 pages.  At one time I did take photographs of each page with a camera so I had to use the photo I took of page 10 to have the complete press book but the image is small and you can't really read what it says on page 10....so until I can find a better version, here's the "complete" 12 page ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN pressbook."

Movie Pressbook: The Face of Fu Manchu (1965)

A coloring contest for The Face of Fu Manchu? Sure, the cover of this pressbook is fantastic, but I'm not sure using a coloring contest (see next to last page) is a suitable promotional gimmick. I think Tsai Chin as his daughter stole the show. This series left quite an impression on me when they originally appeared in the theaters. I read the Sax Rohmer books after seeing Christopher Lee's sinister performance. 

Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) Pressbook

The original theater 3D release of Creature from the Black Lagoon used the gray polarizing lenses, not the red and blue ones. This is one of the few 3D movies that looks good in 3D, especially the underwater photography. Still a treat to see today, the Creature will always be with us.

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Movie Pressbook: The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

Once again, Tony Rivers strikes: " Here's the US press book for Hammer's Curse of the Werewolf including the 2 page supplement for the double feature of Shadow of the Cat, 10 pages in all."

Movie Pressbook: The Mummy's Curse (1944)

From Tony Rivers, who notes: "Here's another press book...with a little help from Philip Riley's Mummy's Curse Scriptbook and its pressbook reproduction, plus a lot of Photoshop to tint the color the original one had and reposition some ads....only six pages.  Seems the later 1940's Universal pressbooks were, more or less, only 6-8 pages in length."

Movie Pressbook: The Sadist (1963)

From Tony Rivers, who notes: "One of my favorite movies from the 1960's is The Sadist and here's the complete pressbook for this film. Usually only 4 pages are sold by dealers because they miss the two ad pages." Those are included here.

 

Movie Pressbook: House of Fright (1960)

Once again, Tony Rivers pulls another terrifying pressbook from his collector's crypt. Tony says " Here's the 12 page press book for AIP's version of Hammer's Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll called House of Fright." Wonderfully expressive cover, don't you think?

Double Bill Pressbook: Horror of Frankenstein and Scars of Dracula

Tony Rivers sends along this Hammer Horror duo of terror: Horror of Frankenstein and Scars of Dracula Double Bill pressbook.