eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 5c194 UNCIVILISED 1sh R48 Pituri, the love drug, Devil brewed it, white man pursued it, rare! Date Sold 3/9/2017Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1948) Re-release (re-titled "Pituri" for this re-release) Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 28" x 41" [71 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Uncivilised (also released as "Pituri"), the 1937 Charles Chauvel Australian kidnapping crime thriller ("Beautiful authoress kidnapped, is emotionally stimulated by Pituri, the drug used as a love potion", "GIRLS... A thrilling sensation! Life in the rough! Love in the raw!"; "Strangest of all love drugs!... it's Uncivilized!"; "The devil brewed it - white man pursued it"; "A victim of the dread love potion"; "Pituri makes them uncivilized"; this movie was made in Australia and set in the Outback, and had a female English author in search of a white man who went to live in the Outback and then disappeared; when she finds him, she discovers that the Aborigines treat him like a god, and there is a "native" witch doctor who turns out to be also a white man, a government agent who is posing as a native; there are only two Aborigines in the movie with speaking parts, although the god-like man delivers much of his dialog in the Aborigine language; there is a subplot where the female author is kidnapped and given a drug that "stimulates" her, and when the movie was shown in the U.S., naturally, this sequence was made to be the focus of the advertising, and that sequence, along with a nude swimming scene by the female star, made the movie successful in the U.S.!) starring Margot Rhys, Dennis Hoey, Ashton Jarry, Marcelle Marnay, and Kenneth Brampton. Apparently, there was a real life basis in the subplot that deals with the drug given to the woman! Pituri was a drug that was used by Australian Aborigines when they went on "walkabouts", which was a strong heart stimulant, and when western civilization discovered it, it was used as a medicine for heart patients, and some unethical people began secretly giving it to women as a "love potion" (shades of modern day "roofies"). In fact, when the movie was released in the U.S., it was sometimes given the title of this drug, "Pituri". Finally, the IMDb says this movie was released in the U.S. in 1937, and we found a newspaper ad from that year, but it likely played throughout the U.S. until 1943, because we found newspaper ads showing it playing in 1942 and 1943; but we know that it was likely re-released in 1948 in the U.S., where it was likely presented as a sexploitation movie, based on a 1948 newspaper ad. If anyone knows more about any of this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that movie paper material from this early Australian drug movie (about men drugging women to have sex with them) is beyond rare. We have previously auctioned a U.S. glass slide (which auctioned for $422!), but otherwise, we have never had any movie paper item from this movie (U.S. or Australian) until we were consigned this one-sheet from the 1948 re-release! Note that we dated it to 1948 because we found a newspaper ad showing that it played in Oregon in that year, but of course, it might have played other years in the U.S., because this sort of movie was often shown in midnight shows in small towns. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Also note that this one-sheet measures 28" x 41" [71 x 104 cm]. Note that this poster is one of a remarkable collection of 24 sexploitation one-sheets (and one two-sheet from one of the 24 titles) which are mostly from the 1940s, and most of them are ones we have never auctioned before. These are among the most desirable sexploitation posters ever, because they are far more rare than those from later years! Condition: good to very good. The poster has tears and tiny paper loss at the bottom crossfold and in the bottom horizontal fold and the bottom quarter of the vertical fold. Someone put tape on the back of those areas and also on the back of the left half of the middle horizontal fold, where there was separation. There are some creases and scuffs on the rest of the folds and the poster was lightly folded in half an extra time. Learn More about condition grades
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