Val Lewton Missing Daybills ( and other Australian posters )
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. 0
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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 ?
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 ?
And are you thinking any of those seven were not released in Australia?
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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.
My thread has been very worthwhile just in the unveiling of The Body Snatcher daybill. Now where is The Leopard Man ?
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.
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 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.
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.