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Auction History Result 2b0060 BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS pressbook 1953 Ray Bradbury's tale of the sea's master-beast! Date Sold 5/10/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 17" [28 x 43 cm]; 24 pages) (Learn More) The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, the 1953 Eugene Lourie science fiction (sci-fi) monster horror thriller ("They couldn't believe their eyes! They couldn't escape the terror! And neither will You!"; "The sea's master-beast of the ages - raging up from the bottom of time!"; "A Thrill Story Beyond All Imagining!"; "Prehistoric Sea-Giant Rages Against City! A Thrill Story Beyond All Imagining!"; "It's alive!"; "Cast of Thousands! Over a year in the making!"; "You'll see it tear a city apart!"; "A thrill-story beyond all imagining!"; "King of prehistoric sea giants... Raging up from the bottom of time!"; "It's alive!"; "Cast of thousands! Over a year in the making!"; "Suggested by the Sensational Saturday Evening Post Story by Ray Bradbury"; with special effects by Ray Harryhausen) starring Paul Hubschmid (billed as "Paul Christian"), Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Lee Van Cleef, Kenneth Tobey, Donald Woods, and Ross Elliot NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that in March of 2013, we auctioned a great still that showed a picture of a man standing by a massive 10-foot standee (it sold for $38). What we didn't know then is that this standee is advertised full-length on the first interior page of the pressbook, and it says that there was a hole by the beast's head so that you could put dry ice in a container of water behind it, and have smoke come out for ten minutes as people were filing into the theater, and it also says that the monster has a "crimson tongue that darts up and down and a glaring eye that moves back and forth" thanks to the enclosed motor and battery. It says that "this display is our way of saying 'you're welcome' for the great response we received for the 'House of Wax' display"! Note that in December 2021, we were consigned a truly remarkable collection of pressbooks (the first 37 were auctioned in our December Major Auction, and the most expensive one sold for $17,500!). In our regular auctions since, we have auctioned hundreds more from this collection. Now we continue to auction more of these pressbooks, which is absolutely the finest collection of pressbooks we have ever been consigned. In this set of auctions, most of the ones we are auctioning are larger pressbooks, mostly 11" x 15" or larger. Some of them were folded at one time, but they were stored unfolded for many years, so we left them unfolded, and unless the new owner requests otherwise, we will send them unfolded, because re-folding them would likely lessen the condition. Many of these are ones we have either never auctioned before or only once auctioned before, sometimes many years ago. These were collected decades ago, which was the only time that many of these could be found, and after these auctions are over it may be years (or decades!) before some of these are offered again. They ARE that rare! Note that pressbooks from the 1930s are almost never found in great condition, and some of them (especially those printed during World War II, including all the MGM ones from that time) are printed on newsprint, and are hard to find in even lesser condition. We have several images from each pressbook. We have given each an overall grade, and ask that you look at our images to get a good sense of the condition of that pressbook, because, since they have many pages, it would take forever to describe their condition in detail. However, EVERY one of these pressbooks is complete and uncut! Condition: good to very good, NO CUTS. Note that we solely give an overall grade to these rare pressbooks, and tell you whether it is complete and uncut. However, you can view our multiple images of the covers and the interior pages that should give you a good sense of the pressbook's condition. The covers are separated at the spine. Otherwise, the pressbook is in nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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