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Auction History Result 2g511 BLACK SLEEP pressbook '56 Lon Chaney Jr, Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, terror-drug wakes the dead Date Sold 10/12/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 17" [28 x 43 cm]; 8 pages). Also included is an ad supplement that has one page. (Learn More) the double-bill release of The Black Sleep, the 1956 Reginald Le Borg horror thriller ("The Black Sleep... the terror-drug that wakes the dead!"; "A horror-horde of monster-mutants walks the earth!"; "Out of the evil brain of a twisted scientist comes a fantastic robot army, crushing all barriers ...feeding on beauty, lusting to claw the world apart!"; "Rising from the depths of a black hell! An army of mammoth monsters attacks!"; "Beyond any terror ever known - the clawing fury of sub-human creatures at war with the world!"; "The Black Sleep... It wakes the dead!"; "You go to sleep a human being... You wake up a hulking horror - transformed by the evil 'experiments' of a satanic scientist!"; "...The terror-drug that wakes the dead!"; "SEE! The diabolical doctor create supermonsters!"; "SEE! The death-struggle of man against ghoul!"; "SEE! The helpless young girl writhe in the grasp of a fiend!") starring (in the credits order from the poster) Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, Herbert Rudley, Patricia Blake, Phyllis Stanley, Tor Johnson, Sally Yernell, George Sawaya, and Claire Carleton AND The Quatermass Xperiment (released in the U.S. in 1956 as "The Creeping Unknown"), the 1955 Val Guest Hammer English/U.S. horror thriller ("BEWARE OF 'THE CREEPING UNKNOWN'"; "It's coming for YOU from Space to wipe all living things from the face of the Earth! CAN IT BE STOPPED?"; "All Earth Stands Helpless!"; "You can't escape it! Nothing can destroy it! It's coming for you from Space to wipe all living things from the Earth! Can it be stopped?") starring Brian Donlevy, Margia Dean, Jack Warner, Thora Hird, Gordon Jackson, and David King-Wood NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. 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! Condition: good to very good, NO CUTS. The covers have separated at the spine and there is some wear around the edges of the pages. Learn More about condition grades 
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