1950's First Release Australian Daybills Not Designed By Richardson Studio For Paramount Pictures
O.S.image comparison.There were a number of films released by Paramount Pictures in Australia in the 1950's that I am convinced that there were no daybill posters designed by the Richardson Studio for theses films. I believe these displayed five feature films daybill posters would have been designed and printed in duotone by an uncredited Australian printer for the film's first release. Note that these posters don't have A Paramount Picture wording on them only A Paramount Release or Released By Paramount Pictures appearing on them.The details for the five films are as follows.
Immediate Disaster ( a.k.a. Stranger From Venus ) Rich & Rich Ltd. USA television first release in 1954. No Paramount Pictures connection known.
Godzilla King Of The Monsters ( 1956 ). Toho Company. Embassy Pictures / Transworld Releasing Corp in the U.S.A. Released in Italy & Argentina by Paramount.
Gilbert Harding Speaking Of Murder ( 1953 ) Danziger Productions Ltd. / Paramount British Pictures. A compilation of 3 stories from a U.K. television series called Calling Scotland Yard.
Alaska Patrol ( 1949 ) Burwood Pictures Corp. / Film Classics. No Paramount connection known.
S.O.S. Submarine ( 1941 Italy then edited & dubbed and released in the U.S.. in 1948 by Screen Guild Productions. No Paramount connection known.
There were five other films that may also fall into this category of first release duotone daybills, but until an image turns up we won't know for sure. The titles are -
The Ninth Commandment ( a.k.a. Sansualita ) ( USA Barefoot Savage ) Ponti- De Laurentiis Cinematografica / Paramount Films Of Italy - I.F.E.Releasing Corporation ( U.S.A.) Italian film with subtitles.
Oriental Evil ( Breakston - Stahl Productions / Classic Pictures. No Paramount connection known .
Ten Dollar Bettor ( 1951 ) Jack Broder Productions / Realart Pictures Inc. No Paramount connection known.
Breakdown ( 1952 ) Pegasus Productions / Realart Pictures Inc. No Paramount connection known.
Gambler And The Lady ( 1952 ) Hammer Films / Lippert Films. Exclusive Films ( U.K. ) & Lippert Pictures ( U.S.A. ). No Paramount connection known.
Newspaper advertisement placed during the film's run in Newcastle N.S.W. in September 1953.
The reason the just mentioned five titles may be either duotone or Richardson Studio / W.E.Smith full colour daybills is because of the following three titles were also independently released films overseas, but were released in Australia by Paramount Films and were produced by Richardson Studio / W.E. Smith. All three have A Paramount Release and not A Paramount Picture printed on them. A point to make is that no duotone versions of any of these three titles have been sighted.
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Crashout ( 1955 ) Filmakers Releasing Organisation ( States rights system ). No Paramount connection known.
Mad At The World ( 1955 ) Filmakers Releasing Organisation. No Paramount connection known.
The Big Chase ( 1954 ) Lippert Pictiures, Inc. No Paramount connection known.
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Strand Theatre Newcastle N.S.W. Australia Cinema Melbourne Vic.
Strand Theatre Newcastle N..S,W.
Some more information regarding this very little known film The Ninth Commandment. To have a foreign language film with English subtitles released in a major Newcastle cinema in 1953 was most unusual. This film would have been mainly screened at the big city art house cinemas, but being from Paramount and the Newcastle Strand Theatre at that time mainly screened Paramount product probably had something to do with it.
Additional backup with the Godzilla one sheet now surfacing, and thus adding to my belief, that Paramount Pictures as previously mentioned didn't produce any Richardson Studio designed full colour daybill versions for a number of films in the 1950's, and in the case of the one sheets a decent full colour version.
Every Day's A Holiday ( original title L'oro Di Napoli ) ( USA title The Gold Of Naples ). ( 1954 )
Three Crooked Men ( 1959 )
Triple Blackmail ( 1955 )
Three Cornered Fate ( 1955 )
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Lady In The Fog ( 1952 ) ( Released in the U.S.A. as Scotland Yard Inspector ).
Images presented sourced from vavious sources including bruce, John, Trove and IMDB,
Some more obscure film titles for films released in Australia in the 1950's by Paramount Pictures Australia, that possibly may not have had any full colour daybills designed by the Richardson Studios for, with only cheaply produced duotone versions designed instead.
The titles are -
Every Day's A Holiday ( L'oro Di Naples original Italian title ) ( 1954 ). Paramount Films Of Italy. Released in Australia in an edited version.
Three Crooked Men ( 1959 ). Danziger Productions, Paramount British Pictures. There is a possibility that this title may have been designed by Richardson Studio. I base this on the fact that another Danziger Productions / Paramount British Pictures film titled Links Of Justice from 1958 had a Richardson Studio / W.E. Smith colour daybill design produced for its Australian release.
Triple Blackmail ( 1955 ). A compilation film of 3 episodes of the U.K. television series The Vise. Danziger Productions. Paramount British Pictures.
Three Cornered Fate ( 1955 ). A compilation film of 3 television episodes of the U.K. television series The Vise. Danziger Productions. Paramount British Pictures.
Lady In The Fog ( 1952 ). Hammer Film Productions, Exclusive Films. Released in the U.S.A. under the title Scotland Yard Inspector by Lippert Pictures.
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Stumbled across this Australian newspaper advertisement placed for a one night only screening in Queanbetan N.S.W. in 1963. The artwork is certainly more impressive than that was produced for the Paramount daybill and the one sheet appearing above.
Some information on this cute Australian duotone daybill. It would certainly appear that Paramount Pictures Australia only had a short term release agreement in Australia, with this being from 1957 to circa 1964. By 1965 and through to at least 1969 Godzilla King Of The Monsters was screened in Australia on double bills with other Regent Films ( RFD ) releases. This would certainly seem to me that the above daybill would have been produced for a circa 1965 Regent Films re-release.
I'm sure I smile everytime I look at this image.
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It would appear then that Links Of Justice and Three Crooked Men daybills were allocated to Richardson studio / W.E. Smith due to the Paramount British pictures connection. On saying this an earlier Danziger Production / Paramount British released film only warrented a non Richardson cheaply designed duotone daybill produced by an unknown printer. Links Of Justice along with Three Crooked Men were produced as full length theatrical film releases whereas Gilbert Harding Speaking Of Murder was a theatrical film release edited from three episodes from a cheaply made television series As I had previously mentioned ''Gilbert Harding Speaking Of Murder ( 1953 ) Danziger Productions Ltd. / Paramount British Pictures. A compilation of 3 stories from a U.K. television series called Calling Scotland Yard.''
This leads me to believe even more now that the previously mentioned missing daybill titles for ''Triple Blackmail ( 1955 ), a compilation film of 3 episodes of the U.K. television series The Vise. Danziger Productions. Paramount British Pictures.'' along with ''Three Cornered Fate ( 1955 ). A compilation film of 3 television episodes of the U.K. television series The Vise. Danziger Productions. Paramount British Pictures.'' would have warrented only a cheaply produced non Richardson daybill.
A big thank you to Sven for sharing the rare Three Crooked Men daybill image.
I'm sure this will be daybill title Chris to want add to his want list.
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The Wife Of Monte Cristo ( 1946 ).
Another obscure film title that I believe would not have had a full colour daybill designed by the Richardson Studio. The above cheaply designed duotone version was produced for its first release in Australia in 1955 by an unknown printer. The film was released by the poverty row studio PRC in the U.S.A. in 1946, and for whatever reason took nine years to reach our shores. It was screened as a support to The Naked Jungle in Sydney, when screened there in 1955. It would also appear the film was released in an edited version that was cut down from 83 to 70 minutes.This was another small budget non Paramount film that Paramount Australia acquired in the 1950s
All the films covered so far in this thread were released in Australia during the 1950s.This was a period when shorter running times B grade films were no longer being produced by Paramount Pictures U.S.A. and they were only releasing a small amount of independently acquired product of this type for world wide distribution. The prolific independent producers Pine - Thomas Productions B picture unit, who started releasing through Paramount Pictures in 1941 with Power Dive, ceased producing the shorter running time black and white output with their last film Special Agent being released in 1949. They decided to concentrate on longer running bigger budget films, with better known names such as John Payne and Ronald Reagan starring. Their early releases were in black and white but they soon made all their films in colour from 1951 -1955.
To fill a void left in this B grade area with the Pine - Thomas upgrade and also a large decrease in product in general coming out of Paramount Pictures, sourcing replacement product was a necessity. Films were obtained from Paramount British ( titles not released in the U.S.A. ), European titles with and without any Paramount connection, along with U.S. poverty row studio product. It was with some of this product that apparently Paramount Pictures Australia decided that they didn't warrant a Richardson Studio colour daybill, and went with a duotone version only.
All the above posters either display 'A Paramount Release' or 'Released By Paramount Pictures' printed on them, and not 'A Paramount Picture' that would normally appear on their Australian.posters for their own product.
These three Richardson Studio posters that were designed for films that had been released in the U.S.A. by independent distributing companies Filmmakers Releasing Organisation and Lippert Pictures also have 'A Paramount Release' printed on them, but these titles had the luxury of obtaining a Richardson design.
It it interesting that six of the above films were printed in duotone versions, but the other three received the Richardson Studio colour design treatment..
These two Richardson Studio posters both have " A Paramount British Release'' credit appearing on them also had Richardson colour artwork allocated.
All the numerous product sourced from Allied Artists Pictures that was released by Paramount Pictures in Australia in the late 1950s and into the early part of the 1960s were printed in colour by Richardson Studio. Then starting in the early 1960s they were then designed and printed in colour by Robert Burton after Richardson ceassd printing daybills alltogether. The daybill posters were credited as being ''An Allied Artist Picture Released Thru Paramount''. Three Richardson Studio examples of this appear directly below.
These images from John, Mark and an unknown source.
Interestingly none of the large amount of Allied Artists product that Paramount Pictures released in Australia during the 1950s / 1960s appear to have any duotone daybills printed in addition to the original colour versions of their released product. This also appears to be the case with the Crashout, Mad At The World, The Big Chase, Links Of Justice and Three Crooked Men colour versions not having any additional duotone copies printed for these titles.
Finally the following listed titles that were previously covered earlier in this thread. It was stated that no daybill images have been located for any of these titles and this does remain the case today to the best of my knowledge..
Breakdown
Every Day's A Holiday
Gambler And The Lady
Lady In The Fog
Ninth Commandment, The
Oriental Evil
Ten Dollar Bettor
Three Cornered Fate
Triple Blackmail
Oriental Evil ( 1951 ) U.S.A, one sheet credited as being a Classic Pictures release. This title would have to have been the most obscure and unlikely small budget independently made and released film that Paramount Australia had considered and then decided to release here.
If and when daybill images ever turn up it will be intersting to see if they were non Richardson printed duotone versions, or if some of them were perhaps printed by Richardson Studio in colour versions. Of course if anyone sights any images of the listed daybills please post the images here on this thread.
As I had thought the Lady in The Fog Australian daybill was produced in a duotone poster only. and not as the usual full colour Richardson Studio version.
A big thank you to John for sending me this rare image that he thought may interest me. and it certainly did.
Lady In The Fog which was previously listed above has been now removed. One image found, but still eight more images missing that it would be great to locate them. Even one more at this stage I would welcome.