VARIOUS-FILM, RADIO, THEATRE & TV Viking Women / Back
To Nature / The Mysterious Invader (Late 1950s, possibly
early 1960s UK 30" x 40" quad film poster for a triple bill of
1957 Anglo International Pictures features. Viking Women,
also knownas The Saga of the Viking Women and Their
Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent, produced by
the schlock master Roger Corman and the legendary Samuel
Z. Arkoff. The Astounding She Monster, here billed as The
Mysterious Invader, directed & produced by Ronald V.
Ashcroft, who engaged the B-movie kingpin Edward D. Wood,
Jr. as an unofficial consultant after having worked on his
Night of the Ghouls. The third part of the bill is an unidentified
nudie cutie, Back To Nature, filmed in colour & set in the
Elsinore nudist colony California, undoubtedly on of the first
waves of nudie-cuties of the late 1950s. This poster is most
likely a late 1950s, possibly early 1960s re-screening of the
films, billed as 'Colossal Triple Attraction', distributed by
AngloAmalgamated with the Hammer House Wardour Street
address printed at the bottom of the poster. The poster uses a
colour palette consisting of green, red & yellow with the
Viking Women image the same as the American poster art,
however reversed; the art from the Mysterious Invader
utilizes the central figure and composites with the other lead
characters. The poster has three sharp folds vertically and
three shallow folds horizontally and no holes where the folds
intersect. There is are two creases to the bottom which are
confined to the white border. The edges of the poster are
mostly still sharp, aside from a couple of point where the
creases meet the edge, overall the effect is still very
pleasing. The poster has been stored well, meaning acid
yellowing it kept to a minimum, only present for a small
section of the left & right edges, with a few light spots of
foxing here or there. The colours still pop from the image,
with the whites still bright and the images wonderfully clear in
all their pulpy, titilating glory. This is a fantastic relic from the
age of the drive-in, which must have been a real shot in the
arm for the austere post-war UK. A great item, perfect for
framing and sure to be a conversation piece)
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