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Pagan Island, the 1961 Barry Mahon Polynesian tropical island action adventure sexploitation melodrama ("Shipwrecked!"; "One man alone with 30 beautiful native girls!"; about a man shipwrecked on a Polynesian island where they worship a strange sea god statue, and they hate him because he is a "white man", but he wins them over, until he goes after the one girl he can't have, the one promised to the sea god) starring Eddie Dew (billed as "Ed Dew"), Nani Maka, Trine Hovelsrud, Yda Alvarez, and Barbara Bordeaux. Note that the girls in this movie are supposed to be Polynesian, but they in no way appear to be, likely because they were actually models hired by famed pin-up photographer Bunny Yeager! That makes the central plot of the "natives" hating the shipwrecked man because he is "white" ludicrous, because they all look the same! Note that director Barry Mahon had a fascinating life that could fill several movies! He was an American pilot for England in World War II and he was shot down and put in a POW camp, and he escaped and was the basis for the Steve McQueen character in the movie "The Great Escape" (Mahon also loved motorcycles). He became Errol Flynn's pilot and later Errol Flynn's manager. He then made many sexploitation "nudie cuties" movies in the 1950s and 1960s, but at the end of his career, he made a drastic shift, and made several children's movies (perhaps he found religion?). You can click on his name for a more complete version of this biography of his life. If anyone knows more about this movie or Mahon's drastic career changes, please e-mail us and we will post it here.
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Important Added Info: Note that pressbooks were prepared prior to a movie being released. Often, changes would be made in a movie advertising campaign (billing of actors, different images, etc.), and the theaters would print up special supplements that they would send out with the pressbooks that had already been printed. These supplements are very rare, far more rare than the pressbooks themselves! Some pressbooks would have no supplements, some would have one, and some would have several. Also note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook, and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners purchased pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut!

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