Random Drive-In Mash-Up :: September, 1959

 

 

For the Love of Science-Fiction :: With All Their Fantastic Daring-Do and Their Dastardly Villains, Too! (July, 1967)

 

 

 

 

This post is part of the For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon hosted by Ferdy on Films, This Island Rod, and Wonders in the Dark. This year’s theme is science-fiction, and we’ll be leaning hard toward the “mad science” portion of the genre. Hope you enjoy, and please click on the link above and donate to help restore the silent film, Cupid in Quarantine. The goal is to raise $10,000. Give what you can, won’t you? Thank you!

Fantastic Voyage (1966) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation / P: Saul David / D: Richard Fleischer / W: Harry Kleiner, David Duncan, Otto Klement, Jerome Bixby / C: Ernest Laszlo / E: William B. Murphy / M: Leonard Rosenman / S: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O’Brien, Arthur O’Connell, Donald Pleasence

Batman (1966) William Dozier Productions :: Greenlawn Productions :: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation / P: William Dozier / AP: Charles B. Fitzsimons / D: Leslie H. Martinson / W: Lorenzo Semple Jr., Bob Kane (characters) / C: Howard Schwartz / E: Harry W. Gerstad / M: Nelson Riddle / S: Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether, Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin, Alan Napier, Neil Hamilton, Stafford Repp

Second Run Showcase :: A Menace Beyond All Imagination! (December, 1953)

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

Poster campaign for Invaders from Mars at the Archive.

Invaders from Mars (1953) Edward L. Alperson Productions :: National Pictures Corporation :: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation / P: Edward L. Alperson / D: William Cameron Menzies / W: Richard Blake, John Tucker Battle / C: John F. Seitz / E: Arthur Roberts / M: Raoul Kraushaar / S: Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson, Hillary Brooke, Morris Ankrum

10,000 Sights! 10,000 Thrills! (June, 1960)

 

 

 

 

 

 
Goliath and the Barbarians (1959) Alta Vista Productions :: Standard Produzione :: American International Pictures / EP: James H. Nicholson, Samuel Z. Arkoff / P: Emimmo Salvi / D: Carlo Campogalliani / W: Gino Mangini, Emimmo Salvi, Nino Stresa, Giuseppe Taffarel / C: Bitto Albertini / E: Franco Fraticelli / M: Les Baxter, Carlo Innocenzi / W: Steve Reeves, Chelo Alonso, Bruce Cabot, Giulia Rubini, Arturo Dominici

A Dog’s Best Friend (1959) Robert E. Kent Productions :: United Artists / P: Robert E. Kent / D: Edward L. Cahn / W: Orville H. Hampton / C: Kenneth Peach / E: Michael Minth, Grant Whytock / M: Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter / S: Bill Williams, Marcia Henderson, Roger Mobley, Roy Engel, Harry Dean Stanton

May the 4th Be With You :: The Story of a Boy, a Girl, and a Universe (June, 1977)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Well, 7-year old me still unabashedly loves this flick. 43 year old me still loves the hell out of it, but with each year that passes, I find myself longing harder and harder for a world where all the bullshit that followed, including Empire and Jedi never happened and Star Wars was just a one-off.
 

Video courtesy of antisubliminal.

Other Points of Interest:

Second run ads for Star Wars at the Morgue.

Star Wars (1977) Lucasfilm :: 20th Century Fox / EP: George Lucas / P: Gary Kurtz, Rick McCallum/ D: George Lucas / W: George Lucas / C: Gilbert Taylor / E: Richard Chew / M: John Williams / S: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Peter Cushing

Second Run Showcase :: A Prehistoric Mountain of Hair and Muscle (August, 1933)

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

First run King Kong ads at the Morgue.

Full film review of King Kong at 3B Theater.

The poster campaign for King Kong at the Archive.

King Kong (1933) RKO Radio Pictures / EP: David O. Selznick / P: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack / D: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack / W: James Creelman, Ruth Rose, Edgar Wallace (story) / C: Eddie Linden, Vernon Walker, J.O. Taylor / E: Ted Cheesman / M: Max Steiner / S: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Noble Johnson

The Truth About Those Camps — And The Barbed-Wire Nightmares! (November, 1961)

 

 

 

 
Seven Women from Hell (1961) Associated Producers :: 20th Century Fox / P: Harry Spalding / D: Robert Webb / W: Jesse Lasky, Pat Silver / C: Floyd Crosby / E: Jodie Copelan / M: Paul Dunlap / S: Patricia Owens, Denise Darcel, Yvonne Craig, Cesar Romero, Margia Dean

Pirates of Tortuga (1961) Clover Productions :: 20th Century Fox / P: Sam Katzman / D: Robert Webb / W: Jesse Lasky, Melvin Levy, Pat Silver / C: Ellis W. Carter / E: Hugh S. Fowler / M: Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter / S: Ken Scott, Letícia Román, Dave King, Rafer Johnson, John Richardson,

A Long Time Ago, in a Lobby Not Too Far Away… (July, 1978)

 

 

 

Please note the Personal Appearance in the fine print.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Yeah, due to some dire circumstances that really don’t need to be gotten into here, I didn’t get to see Star Wars — yes, Star Wars, save it, New Hopers — until the ’78 re-release at the old Hastings Drive-In. (Had the comics, had the trading cards, had the t-shirt, had the action-figures, but no movie.) So, in the spirit of Johnny-Come-Lately, I’ll present the second-run ads first. This latest batch also marks my 500th post. On the old site, after four years of posting, I didn’t even come close to that amount so I must be doing something right. Hope you’ve enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed digging them up and posting ’em, folks. Stay tuned. Lots more to come.

Star Wars (1977) Lucasfilm :: 20th Century Fox / EP: George Lucas / P: Gary Kurtz, Rick McCallum/ D: George Lucas / W: George Lucas / C: Gilbert Taylor / E: Richard Chew / M: John Williams / S: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Peter Cushing

Just for Kicks … Not for Kids! (September, 1978)

 

 

 

 
If being shot by cult-fave Ray Dennis Steckler isn’t enough to bring you to something like The Erotic Adventures of Pinocchio, where our artificial stud’s you-know-what grows instead of his nose when he gets randy, well, what if I told you Dyanne Thorne played his Fairy Godmother, whose spells usually backfire leaving her to run around in the buff. That’s right: it’s the She-Wolf of the SS by way of Walt Disney. Get thee to the adult video store! And while you’re there, you might as well check out Bill Osco’s Alice in Wonderland, his follow up to the equally demented Flesh Gordon, where cute-as-a-button Kristine DeBell plays Alice as a walking erectile-dysfunction cure-all. Trust me. You don’t wanna know what Humpty Dumpty broke. Now send in the dancing nurses! And if you listen real close, that sound you just heard was Carlo Collodi’s and Lewis Carroll’s graves detonating.

The Erotic Adventures of Pinocchio (1971) Eve Productions :: Cinépix Film Properties / P: Chris Warfield / AP: Lawrence M. Daley, Nicholas Wowchuk / D: Corey Allen / W: Chris Warfield, Corey Allen, Carlo Collodi (novel) / C: Ray Dennis Steckler / E: Tom Conlon / M: John Barber / S: Alex Roman, Monica Gayle, Karen Smith, Dyanne Thorne

Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy (1976) Cruiser Productions :: General National Enterprises / P: Bill Osco / D: Bud Townsend / W: Bucky Searles, Lewis Carroll (novel) / C: Joseph Bardo / E: Shaun Walsh / M: Bucky Searles / S: Kristine DeBell, Bucky Searles, Gila Havana, Alan Novak

It’s All A-Go-Go with Those Hep-Harum Babes! (October, 1965)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hail! And Happy Birthday to the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll!

And once more the IMDB seems to have their wires crossed a bit, saying the premiere for Harum Scarum wasn’t until December, 1965, which is false, and made finding these a pain the patootie but, in the end, the hunt was well worth it. Also of note, the ads call Harum Scarum a comical spoof but it was not originally intended to be. As the legend goes, when Colonel Parker saw a rough print he went absolutely apocalyptic and berated producer Sam Katzman, perhaps the only person in the world cheaper than Parker, that they needed to add a talking camel to the picture as the only means of salvaging it. Well, the camel never made it into the picture but it did make it into the adverts.

Other Points of Interest:

Full film review of Harum Scarum at 3B Theater.

Poster campaign for Harum Scarum at the Archive.

Harum Scarum (1965) Four-Leaf Productions :: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) / P: Sam Katzman / D: Gene Nelson / W: Gerald Drayson Adams / C: Fred Jackman Jr. / E: Ben Lewis / M: Fred Karger / S: Elvis Presley, Mary Ann Mobley, Fran Jeffries, Michael Ansara, Jay Novello, Theodore Marcuse, Billy Barty