Come Prepared! Sights and Sounds Like Never Before! (June, 1973)

 

 

 

 

 

 
Five Fingers of Death (1972) Shaw Brothers :: Warner Bros. / P: Run Run Shaw / D: Chang-hwa Jeong / W: Yang Chiang / C: Yung-Lung Wang / E: Hsing-Lung Chiang, Kung-Wing Fan / M: Yung-Yu Chen / S: Lieh Lo, Ping Wang, Hsiung Chao, Chin-Feng Wang, Mien Fang

A World of Wonders in One Great Picture! (October, 1951)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alice in Wonderland (1951) Walt Disney Productions :: RKO Radio Pictures / P: Walt Disney / D: Clyde Geronim, Wilfred Jackso, Hamilton Luske / W: Winston Hibler, Ted Sears, Bill Peet, Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Milt Banta, William Cottrell, Dick Kelsey, Joe Grant, Dick Huemer, Del Connell, Tom Oreb, John Walbridge, Lewis Carroll (novel) / E: Lloyd L. Richardson / M: Oliver Wallace / S: Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway, Jerry Colonna, Verna Felton

Strange Temptations! Being Devoured in a Manner Inconceivable to the Human Mind! (October, 1963)

 

 

 

Couple of imports this go around, one Italian the other Russian. The second feature most infamously for Francis Ford Coppola’s re-editing and inserting a monster fight into Nebo zovyot, whose monsters are so hilarious phallic in a TAb-A goes into Slot-B sense that one can only watch and boggle.
 

 
Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World (1961) Panda Film :: Gallus Film :: American International Pictures / P: Salvatore Billitteri, Luigi Carpentieri, Ermanno Donati / D: Riccardo Freda / W: Oreste Biancoli, Duccio Tessari, George Gonneau, Lee Kresel / C: Riccardo Pallottini / E: Ornella Micheli / M: Les Baxter / S: Gordon Scott, Yôko Tani, Hélène Chanel, Dante DiPaolo

Battle Beyond the Sun (1959) A.P. Dovzenko Filmstudio :: The Filmbgroup / P: Roger Corman / D: Mikhail Karzhukov, Aleksandr Kozyr, Francis Ford Coppola / W: Mikhail Karzhukov, Yevgeni Pomeshchikov, Aleksey Sazonov / C: Nikolai Kulchitsky / E: L. Mkhitaryyanch / M: Yuli Meitus, Carmine Coppola / S: Ivan Pereverzev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Konstantin Bartashevich, Linda Barrett, Frederick Farley, Mary Kannon

The CinemaScope Blogathon :: The Mightiest Motion Picture of All Time! (January, 1955)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
The post is part of ClassicBecky’s Brain Food and Wide Screen World’s CinemaScope Blogathon. Be sure click on over and check out all the other wonderful entries. And be sure to check out all the other CinemaScope ads already posted with this handy linkage.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) Walt Disney Productions :: Buena Vista Film Distribution Co. Inc. / P: Walt Disney / D: Richard Fleischer / W: Earl Felton, Jules Verne / C: Franz Planer / E: Elmo Williams / M: Paul J. Smith / S: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre, Robert J. Wilke

Multiplex Mash-Up :: Two Years in the Making! (May, 1979)

 

 

 

 

 

Friday the 13th Show :: SEE! A Mighty City Trampled to Destruction! SEE! The Erotic Cannibal Captive Ritual of Death! (December, 1963)

 

 

 

 

Signs of the Season :: From Over the Rainbow and the Fantasy World, Santa, Stinky and Merlin Save Christmas (November, 1964)

 

 

 

 
After the box-office success of his completely demented Mexican matinee-only import, Santa Claus — where Rene Cardona apparently read a book about Salvador Dali, ate some bad Figgy Pudding, and then downed about  nine pints of Mad Dog before hammering out a script and rolling the camera — kiddie matinee king K. Gordon Murray quickly commissioned three more holiday features and imported several other Cardona-lensed Fairy Tales. Santa Claus and His Helpers was only a one reel short, where Santa has to abandon his orbiting space station to arbitrate a dispute between his bickering elves to make sure all the toys are ready for Christmas.
 

Video courtesy of MrRootRot.

The second feature, The Queen’s Swordsman, follows the further adventures of Stinky Skunk and the Big Bad Wolf, culled from Cardona’s lavish Little Red Riding Hood series in an attempt at some form of continuity with the first feature.

Santa Claus and His Helpers (1964) K. Gordon Murray Productions / P: K. Gordon Murray / D: Manuel San Fernando / C: Gene Gropper / E: Jack Remy

Thunderball Fists? We Can Have Such Things?! (March, 1979)

 

 

 

The Star of the Wars?
Forget it. He’s rolling.

Infra-Man (1975) Shaw Brothers :: Joseph Brenner Associates / P: Runme Shaw / D: Shan Hua / W: Kuang Ni / C: Tadashi Nishimoto / M: Yung-Yu Chen / S: Danny Lee, Terry Liu, Hsieh Wang, Hsieh Wang, Man-Tzu Yuan

Surging Spectacle and Savagery Overwhelms the Screen with Passion and Violence! (October, 1958)

 

 

 

 

 
Along with Hercules and Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Attila was part of the first wave of imports that helped establish Joseph E. Levine and his Embassy Pictures from regional distributor to mini-movie mogul.

Attila (1954) Compagnie Cinématographique de France :: Lux Film :: Producciones Ponti-de Laurentiis :: Embassy Pictures / EP: Antonio Altoviti / P: Dino De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti / D: Pietro Francisci / W: Ennio De Concini, Richard C. Sarafian, Primo Zeglio / C: Aldo Tonti / E: Leo Cattozzo, Helene Turner / M: Raoul Kraushaar, Enzo Masetti / S: Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren, Henri Vidal, Claude Laydu, Irene Papas

Drive-In Mash-Up :: The Blood and Dinosaurs Edition (May, 1972)