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#BallyhooTuesday – Monster Trucks!
More motorised marketing for movie-audience motivation.
“Mighty Joe Young” in Bridgeport, CT in 1949.
“The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms” in London, 1953.
“Rodan” in London, 1958.
#moviemarketing
#horrormovies
#scifimovies
#kaiju
#RayHarryhausen
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#RomanceComicsTuesday: NOT a nice girl!
Once again, the desire for popularity leads a young woman down the wrong path.
“It hurts me to say this, Ellen, but you’re getting a very BAD reputation. People are saying you’re not a nice girl!” [Love Diary 7, '50]
#romancecomics
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Jun 14
The Mexican Bulletin Summer 2026 issue is now available!
56 pages! 32,000 words! 17 #CineMexicano Film Reviews! 21 Obituaries! More!
Melodrama! Crime! Comedy! Lucha! Westerns! Juvenile delinquents! Nudity! Dancing! Singing!
davewiltfilms.net/mexicanfil…
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Jun 15
As of 15 June 2026 at 5:35pm Eastern Daylight Time, I have updated this file, correcting about a dozen typos or errors. So if you downloaded it prior to that point, a better copy is now available!
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Jun 15
#MexicanMovieMonday: #CineMexicano in production 60 years ago this month –
Fantasy film built around footage from One Million B.C. (1940);
Co-production comedy shot in Peru;
Period fantasy about a miraculous scapulary (a small religious picture, worn around the neck by a ribbon).
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Jun 14
#ThisWeeksFilms:
2 indie films shot in Japan (in English) in the early '50s by George Breakston of "The Manster" fame.
Sometimes shown w/ "Geisha Girl" as a double-bill, "Oriental Evil" also got a lot of run as a second feature to other movies.
#exploitation
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Jun 13
#SantoSaturday: Santo vs. Animals, Pt. 10 --
#ElSanto se balanceaba sobre un elefante
Santo had a varied relationship with elephants (and rhinos). They were cool with him in Mexico: in Africa, not so much.
Note: the Krony circus is real, but this is one of the fake Santos.
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Jun 12
#FilmQuotesFriday:
"I am lost!"
"Such is the human condition."
So, might as well give up?
Ran (1985, dir. #AkiraKurosawa)
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Jun 12
#ThisWeeksBooks:
Mealtime-Reading: "Carl Goerdeler and the Jewish Question, 1933-1942" (Peter Hoffmann)
Bonus: some books that *aren't* recommended reading.
#FridayReads
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Jun 11
#TopTuneThursday:
#LeftyFrizzell: “If You’ve Got the Money, I’ve Got the Time”
This is the original (1950) version.
youtube.com/watch?v=FfsFmtcq…
He re-recorded a shorter version in ’58.
tinyurl.com/3mw5vshc
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Jun 11
#SwipeFile 112: Swipe in the Family
“At least it’s in the same genre” – borrowed ad art from Orgy of the Dead, Adam and Eve, Brain of Blood and Thrill Deviates, re-purposed to promote different movies entirely.
Details: tinyurl.com/yb4dcjnb
#exploitation
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Jun 10
#WarehouseWednesday: Vintage #CineMexicano Posters part 25 –
1956 comedies:
La dulce enemiga: I paid $20 in ’95; auction price $53 in '24;
Las manzanas de Dorotea: paid $10 in '05; auction $26 in ’24;
Refifi entre las mujeres (Cabral art): paid $20 in ’95; auction $297 in ‘21
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Jun 9
#BallyhooTuesday: By Any Other Name
“Marihuana” (Argentina, ’50) was shown (dubbed) as “The Marihuana Story” from at least '51-'60.
It was released in USA Spanish-language cinemas as “El rey de la mota” (’51) & “Marihuana: El tabaco negro del diablo” (’58).
#exploitation
#pot
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Jun 9
#RomanceComicsTuesday – I Couldn’t Help It!
“I needed men’s kisses! It was like a sickness … Man after man – date after date. I didn’t even try to control it any more. There was no cure for this terrible disease of mine … there was only torment.”
More:
tinyurl.com/3exy3rbx
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Jun 8
#MexicanMovieMonday: #CineMexicano in production 70 years ago this month part 2 –
Melodrama, last of the Calderón nude-scenes films;
Lola Flores & #Piporro in a Mexican-Spanish co-production;
Melodrama w/ lots of music since it stars singers Miguel Aceves Mejía & Alfredo Sadel
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Jun 8
#MexicanMovieMonday: #CineMexicano in production 70 years ago this month part 1–
Clockwise:
Crime film w/ Luis Aguilar as good & bad twins;
Ana Luisa Peluffo poses nude for a statue;
Part 2 of "The Three Musketeers" set in Mexico;
Arturo de Córdova as a socially-active priest.
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Jun 7
#ThisWeeksFilms:
Baile, mi rey! ('51) -- a #CineMexicano "salón de baile" melodrama (the most famous of which is "Salón México") w/ #Resortes & Silvia Derbez (#EugenioDerbez's mom);
Haven't quite finished "Aswang," but when I do, "Wild Bill" ('95, dir. Walter Hill) is up next.
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Jun 6
#SantoSaturday: Santo vs Animals Part 9 – Apes A Poppin’
It's a shame #ElSanto didn’t fight a gorilla on-screen until his final starring film (La furia de las karatecas) and then only briefly. Somebody missed a good bet there.
#CineMexicano
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Jun 5
#FilmQuotesFriday -- Scenes from the Class Struggle
Wealthy banker Edward Arnold meets the working class.
"Go and fry yourself in lard, you dirty capitalist."
[Easy Living, '37]
#screwballcomedy
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Jun 5
#ThisWeeksBooks:
Mealtime Reading -- "Brazil Under Vargas" (Karl Loewenstein -- couldn't find an original dustjacket online, so here's the fake one & a Brasilian cover).
Bonus: when you go to the #library and somebody's already borrowed the book you needed
#FridayReads
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