Val Lewton Missing Daybills ( and other Australian posters )

HONDO

 Val Lewton produced eleven films for the B unit at RKO In the 1940's. Of the eleven only four of the titles have I been able to locate any Australian poster images for and these being daybills of Cat People, Bedlam, Mademoiselle Fifi and Youth Runs Wild. The missing seven films, appearing above in U.S. insert poster form, would have been produced most likely by Simmons printers in similar style artwork, and if anything like the four Val Lewton posters we have seen to date they should be great. No other Australian paper in any other format for any of the eleven films have I been able to locate. All seven films have been confirmed that they were released in Australia.

HONDO

 These are the daybill images of the four titles were I have been able to locate daybill poster images for. I have thrown in a nice piece of Australian newspaper advertising for Cat People as well. 

The eleven titles produced at RKO and U.S. release dates as follows.

Cat People ( 1942 )

I Walked With A Zombie ( 1943 )

The Leopard Man ( 1943 )

The Seventh Victim ( 1943 )

The Ghost Ship ( 1943 )

The Curse Of The Cat People ( 1944 )

Youth Runs Wild ( 1944 )

Mademoiselle Fifi ( 1944 )

The Body Snatcher ( 1945 )

Isle Of The Dead ( 1945 )

Bedlam ( 1946 )

If anyone has any other Australian poster images in any paper size of any  of the eleven film  titles not displayed just above  please let us see them here ?

HONDO

I was thinking of doing another similar grouping of missing Australian posters and this time a particular Universal horror monster series. If anyone is interested in this please let me know, as this sort of thing is very time consuming, so I would like to know in advance if there is enough interest to warrant me proceeding or not ?

Sven

Would love to see a uni horror thread on missing daybills lawrence! 

David

Very nice posters there (missing or otherwise)

Bruce

Count me in!

And are you thinking any of those seven were not released in Australia?

HONDO

Bruce said:

Count me in!

And are you thinking any of those seven were not released in Australia?

Regarding the seven you refer to. Are they the Val Lewton images I commenced this thread with, and if so I had mentioned that all seven  were confirmed  that they had all  been released in Australia. Every one of the 11 films were released in Australia.

HONDO

 Nine of the titles from  Val Lewton's RKO produced films, along with a great 2005 documentary in this great DVD boxset.

CSM_2_Point_0

Body Snatcher absolutely exists and I am pretty sure Leopard Man does too

CSM_2_Point_0

David

CSM_2_Point_0 said:

Body Snatcher absolutely exists and I am pretty sure Leopard Man does too

I can hear the door creaking to your basement...

HONDO

CSM_2_Point_0 said:

CSM_2_Point_0 said:

Body Snatcher absolutely exists and I am pretty sure Leopard Man does too

My thread has been very worthwhile just in the unveiling of The Body Snatcher daybill. Now where is The Leopard Man ?

CSM_2_Point_0

If only I owned a copy...

As for the Leopard Man I swear the late, great Lynaron posted a picture of the daybill framed but I cannot find the pic on any of the forums so maybe I am just dreaming about pretty paper again?  (It would help if the search on NS4 actually worked!)

HONDO

CSM_2_Point_0 said:

If only I owned a copy...

As for the Leopard Man I swear the late, great Lynaron posted a picture of the daybill framed but I cannot find the pic on any of the forums so maybe I am just dreaming about pretty paper again?  (It would help if the search on NS4 actually worked!)

If you ever locate an image or any of the other five images you know what to do then.

theartofmovieposters

I've seen daybills for several of the missing ones.  Let me see what I can find...

theartofmovieposters

In fact the only one I think I haven't seen is I walked with a zombie, and maybe curse of the cat people, though that sounds familiar too

theartofmovieposters

The 7th Victim - Australian daybill

The Leopard Man - Australian Daybill

The Ghost Ship - Australian daybill

Still can't be sure about Curse of the cat people, I could be getting confused with the Cat People daybill posted here already...

Isle of the Dead I am pretty sure I have seen, but can't think where or find image.  Again, maybe I am getting confused with the body snatcher...if I turn up any images, will post.

David

Freakn Daybill Encyclopedia 

Sven

Way to go Ves! Leopard man is a cracker!

HONDO

Excellent images Ves so along with The Leopard Man image we now have four of the seven missing Val Lewton titles. Now to find I Walked With a Zombie, Isle Of The Dead and The Curse Of The Cat People. A good team effort so thanks Ves and Chris for participating.

theartofmovieposters

Oh I missed the bit about a uni horror thread

Would love to see them all put together in one spot! 

theartofmovieposters

I wonder if our international friends get sick of us talking ugly aussie paper all the time????

CSM_2_Point_0

theartofmovieposters said:

I wonder if our international friends get sick of us talking ugly aussie paper all the time????

Hell no!!  But then again I am a pretend Aussie (hoping one day to make it to honorary Aussie)

CSM_2_Point_0

theartofmovieposters said:

The 7th Victim - Australian daybill

The Leopard Man - Australian Daybill

The Ghost Ship - Australian daybill

Still can't be sure about Curse of the cat people, I could be getting confused with the Cat People daybill posted here already...

Isle of the Dead I am pretty sure I have seen, but can't think where or find image.  Again, maybe I am getting confused with the body snatcher...if I turn up any images, will post.

Oh to own any of these **SIGH** ...thanks for sharing Ves - and for confirming I am slightly less crazy in believing I had seen a Leopard Man before!

HONDO

theartofmovieposters said:

Oh I missed the bit about a uni horror thread

Would love to see them all put together in one spot! 

Wow a very ambitious thought. I will start a thread shortly starting with the Universal The Mummy series.

mwong

I had a vintage Australian industry magazine which had a 2 page ad featuring Cat People and 7th Victim.  I sold it and don't remember the details.  I may have the 2nd title wrong.  It was quite attractive and gobbled up by my Lewton poster customer.

HONDO

mwong said:

I had a vintage Australian industry magazine which had a 2 page ad featuring Cat People and 7th Victim.  I sold it and don't remember the details.  I may have the 2nd title wrong.  It was quite attractive and gobbled up by my Lewton poster customer.

I am wondering if these were the two films that were advertised as the two films were released on a double bill in a large amount of bookings starting in Australia in 1943 ?

mwong

Yes, I think that might be the double bill.  The artwork was quite attractive.  I purchased a 2nd magazine from the same source with a 2 page Casablanca ad so 1943 could well be the date.

HONDO

 It is interesting that when cinemas across Australia screened the two films as a double bill the billing order switched around depending where the film was screened.

HONDO

 Reasonably split across Australia as how the program was displayed.

HONDO

HONDO said:

I was thinking of doing another similar grouping of missing Australian posters and this time a particular Universal horror monster series. If anyone is interested in this please let me know, as this sort of thing is very time consuming, so I would like to know in advance if there is enough interest to warrant me proceeding or not ?

Sven said:

Would love to see a uni horror thread on missing daybills lawrence! 

Bruce said:

Count me in!

theartofmovieposters said:

Oh I missed the bit about a uni horror thread

Would love to see them all put together in one spot! 

Completed most of part 1 which was very time consuming, but I am pleased in how it has turned out. Will be putting some finishing touches to it and it will be appearing soon.