Rare Non Australian Posters Of Australian Films

theartofmovieposters

Still think the Aussie paper on Kangaroo is nicest I've seen, though that Italian Under the Southern Cross is spectacular!

HONDO

Thanks a lot for the large image of Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll Ves.  I  would like to see the original untampered with quad image. Unusual film to alter in this way and I am very curious  why the censorship to the poster happened. The film was rated only Not Suitable For Children when originally released in Australia.

HONDO

                                                                                                                             # 12. Italian poster of Sons Of Matthew ( 1949 ).

theartofmovieposters

Would be hard pressed to find anything nicer than the Aussie one sheet for Sons of Matthew, but I would LOVE to see the quad, as I reckon it would be a stunner!

HONDO

                                                                            # 13. U.K. quad of Smiley Gets A Gun ( 1958 ).

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                                                                       # 14. U. K. quad of The Siege Of Pinchgut  ( 1959 ).

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  # 15. U. K. quad of Where The Green Ants Dream ( 1984 ).

theartofmovieposters

I'm partial to the Grande personally:

HONDO

Yes it is a very nice French poster, but I personally prefer the quad.

HONDO

A rarest of the rare poster image, originating from the Pacific Islands, is a coming attraction. 

HONDO

                                # 16. The Drifting Avenger ( Koya No Toseinin ) ( 1968 ). A Japanese western shot in Australia at the historic Goonoo Goonoo station, Nundle, north west slopes and plains, Tamworth district N.S.W.  using mainly Australian actors. After a three week shoot the production company went back to Japan where interior scenes were shot, along with dubbing of English speaking cast into Japanese. The film was released in Japan by Toei Company Of Japan but was never released in Australia. Of all places though it gained a release in Fiji. The film was imported and released by Damodar Brothers ( Films ) Ltd. of Suva, Fiji. The poster is marked Damodar Brothers ( Films ) Ltd. Regal Theatre, Suva Fiji Islands. The posters images above are on the left the Japanese poster and on the right a battered and well used similar designed poster from the release in Fiji. I love the placement of the image of Australia on the poster, particularly when the film is hinted as being set in the wild west of America. Surely the original English speaking version was the one screened in Fiji.

HONDO

The Regal theatre where The Drifting avenger was screened in Suva. This image from the late 1940's or early 1950's.

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That certainly is rare Lawrence. Good job!

HONDO

      The Picture Show Man ( 1977 ). # 17a ( left ) from U.S.A.  & 17b ( right ) From Croatia. Great Croation poster.

theartofmovieposters

Oh love the first one!

HONDO

 # 18. The Blonde Captive ( 1931 ). A U.S.A. / Australian film with this American poster being a rare style and featuring one of three distributors found on posters of this title. The Blonde Captive was released through the States Rights System then Columbia Pictures This film has been discussed recently on ''How Observant Are You'' and ''The Nude Quiz'' threads. 

Bruce

Lawrence, do you know for certain whether the Pizor release was before or after the Columbia release?

HONDO

Bruce said:

Lawrence, do you know for certain whether the Pizor release was before or after the Columbia release?

To the best of my knowledge this is the history behind The Blonde Captive.

The film was released ( title unknown ) as a 59 minute National Geographic style documentary by William Pizor's Imperial Pictures in late 1931. This original version possibly doesn't exist today.

Following the documentary's debut in New York City, the anthropological footage was re-edited by Columbia Pictures who added 15 minutes of extra footage, adding the subplot of a white American woman shipwrecked and marrying an Australian aboriginal. The resulting docudrama was renamed The Blonde Captive which Columbia Pictures released in 1932. Imperial Pictures re-issued the movie in 1935 and Astor Pictures re-issued it again in 1947.

Contrary to the movie's title, the woman was neither a captive nor blonde in the movie and actually she was gray haired and she only appears in the movies final five minutes.

William Pizor owned two film distributors, with these being Imperial Pictures and Capitol Pictures and the U.S. one sheets of the same designed poster has Imperial on one of them and Capitol on the other.

To sum up then.

1) An as yet untitled 59 minute original film was released briefly in New York City in very late 1931 by Imperial Pictures.

2 ) Columbia Pictures released the re-edited 73 or 74 minute version, titled The Blonde Captive in 1932.

3 ) Imperial Pictures and sister company Capitol Pictures re-issued the film through the States Rights system starting in 1935.

My previous statement was incorrect in saying that The Blonde Captive was released through the States Rights system before Columbia Pictures when in fact in now turns out it was after.

Bruce

So that would make the Pizor poster R35, and the rare Columbia stuff 1932 originals?

Until 2009 I thought the Columbia release had been aborted, since all I had ever seen was a pressbook and a glass slide, and those could have been created for a release that never happened. But in 2009 I was consigned a lobby card found in a theater with a bunch of other cards, leading me to think it DID have at least a limited release.

But can you find ANY poster from the Columbia release? Where did you get the exact 1935 date for the Pizor release? Please answer those two questions, and then I will update the info on my site with your added info.

Here is the great glass slide:


And here is that lobby card:


Thanks much!

HONDO

Just thought you would like to see two original lobby cards of a similar scene from the Columbia Pictures release. One contains nudity and the other has been altered with the nudity covered up. 

 

HONDO

Bruce said:

So that would make the Pizor poster R35, and the rare Columbia stuff 1932 originals?

Until 2009 I thought the Columbia release had been aborted, since all I had ever seen was a pressbook and a glass slide, and those could have been created for a release that never happened. But in 2009 I was consigned a lobby card found in a theater with a bunch of other cards, leading me to think it DID have at least a limited release.

But can you find ANY poster from the Columbia release? Where did you get the exact 1935 date for the Pizor release? Please answer those two questions, and then I will update the info on my site with your added info.:


Thanks much!

Yes to your first question.

Re the release in 1935 you will find it by searching on google  for Alchetron.com/ The Blonde Captive where you will find this information.

I haven't seen any actual film posters with Columbia Pictures appearing on them but I will post shortly proof that the Columbia Pictures release did happen.

HONDO

 The top image proves the release by Columbia Pictures did take place in New York. I have images of a total of nine sepia  lobby card images, all showing Columbia Pictures as being the distributor. The lobby cards apart from showing Australian content also has images of people from Bali, Fiji and New Zealand on them. Hope this answers all your concerns Bruce.

Bruce

One last point. There are dated and undated Columbia lobby cards. The undated ones are likely re-releases, but from when?

HONDO

Bruce said:

One last point. There are dated and undated Columbia lobby cards. The undated ones are likely re-releases, but from when?

I don't know for sure but I think all the nine cards were printed sometime during the Columbia Pictures release from 1932 to 1935, after which the rights to the film reverted back to William M. Pizor. Would a re-release have happened within three years? Of the nine cards I have images of they appear to me to be from different printings. Six of the lobby cards would be from the one original set of most likely 8 cards.These are ones with '' An absolutely authentic amazing adventure!'' printed on them. They all have a small image within a circle on them as well. The title card is the only one with  Columbia Pictures copyright and other credits appearing on the card. Two other cards, one with Columbia Pictures copyright and other credits appearing on it has a more covered up woman appearing, and the second one also has a covered up female, but this one without any credits on the bottom, probably were printed a little later than the first six, possibly after some complaints were received about the female nudity. The final card  presented in a completely conservative way, featuring the frilled-neck lizard, I believe is possibly a U.K. front of house card, by the appearance of the credits on the bottom of the card. These are my thoughts so it's over to you now Bruce as to what you think about my opinion.

Bruce

Columbia did a TON of re-releases in 1934 (likely after they "hit the jackpot" with It Happened One Night.

I would say there is a good chance the undated cards are from 1934, and then the Pizor release was the next year.

Unless you disagree, I will put those guesses on the auctions.

David

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blonde_Captive

HONDO

Bruce said:

Columbia did a TON of re-releases in 1934 (likely after they "hit the jackpot" with It Happened One Night.

I would say there is a good chance the undated cards are from 1934, and then the Pizor release was the next year.

Unless you disagree, I will put those guesses on the auctions.

Go ahead as I really don't know but five of the undated cards, as I mentioned were in exactly in the same format as the title card, so I still think these five undated cards were from the same original run as the dated title card. When we say dated they aren't exactly dated with a year, but they just say copyrighted. In my opinion the only two possibilities for being re-releases are the two cards with the extra clothing on the woman. My question also is, of these heaps of 1934  Columbia  re-releases you mentioned, would any been of 1932 releases ?  I still believe the six cards with the small image in a circle are first release and the two images below , due to censorship are second printings. We most likely will never know for sure but you go with your feelings if you feel strongly enough about it. The only thing we know for sure is, that the cards are 1932, 1933 or1934 in origin as by 1935 Columbia Pictures would have known they were losing the theatrical rights to the film. The first re-release recorded in print was in 1935 by Imperial Pictures.

 

theartofmovieposters

The first card looks more photographic...is this the one you guys are saying is a RR?

Sorry I see you mention 6 cards in total, but I'm at work and only some images are coming up, so if its more obvious with the images, perhaps I should wait till I get home...

John

Here is a card I sold a few years ago ......

HONDO

John said:

Here is a card I sold a few years ago ......

Thanks for the image John. My opinion is that this card is from a second set of issued lobby cards similar to the image I posted just above it with the palm covered woman appearing on it. I will call this set the censored 2nd printing set for identification purposes.