Looking For A Phantom Daybill?
Do you search for any daybill titles that you have have never found and just put in down to that the poster is rare? It also may be that the films were never released in Australia theatrically due not only to the films being banned but also for other reasons as well.
Some of the titles that fall into this category are ---'
The Night Of The Hunter
The Last Mile ( Mickey Rooney version )
Queen Of Outer Space
World Without End
Brides Of Dracula
Kongo
The Fly series
The majority of the 1950's Bowery Boys & Bomba series from Monogram / Allied artists
and the list goes on.
It is a pity no paper of any sort exists for the classic The Night Of The Hunter due to the banning in Australian.
Hondo
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Attack Of The 50ft Foot Woman was banned in Australia in 1958. It appears the film was finally passed for exhibition with a PG rating in 1994 for release on videotape.
Hondo
Are you referring to this one? If you are this is a daybill printed for the New Zealand only release with their censorship rating on it printed at the time of it's original N.Z. release in the 1960's. The film was banned in Australia until 1972 so this one slipped into the mix by an oversight on my part. Do you have an image to show me? If it is an image from the 1972 Australian releases i am sure it will be a duotone or economically produced poster that one wouldn't be seeking out. Curious - let me know.
Hondo
Yes so would I. I'll try and find out if Detour was released in Australian or not?
Hondo
I could have sworn I saw one with the Aus rating but can't find it now...maybe it was for something else with a similar image?
Newspaper files from 1945 onwards appear to have not record of this film being released in Australia. I have no record of it being banned and I cannot see why it would have been.The only thing I can think of is it was made on a shoestring budget and released by the king of poverty row distributors PRC and not all their product was picked up for distribution in Australia so I am thinking no daybill.Just had a quick check of the more well known PRC titles such as Devil Bat, Fog Island & Nabonga and couldn't find any daybill images. The only one of these three titles that appeared to have been released in Australia that I could find was Nabonga.Seems as if only selective titles were taken up for distribution in Australia.
Hondo
Thank Lawrence. I suspected as much after years of Bikini Machines turning up left right and centre, but no Girl Bombs...
Just thought I would take the opportunity to confirm once and for all.
Thanks again!
The title of Born To Kill was actually changed to Deadlier Than The Male ( not Female ) in Australia which happened to be the U.S. working title.