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As many of you know, I, Bruce Hershenson, owner of eMoviePoster.com, have collected pressbooks (and related movie paper like studio yearbooks) for over 30 years, and I have the world's foremost collection of such material. I thought I would share one item with you this week, the type of items you almost surely have never seen before, and which might not come up for sale for DECADES!

This week, I have the pressbook from The Fighting Marine, the 1926 Spencer Gordon Bennet silent U.S. Marines military action adventure serial starring Gene Tunney ("The world's new heavyweight champion"; the real life heavyweight boxing champion of the world!), Walter Miller, Marjorie Day, Jack Anthony, and Virginia Vance. Note that many boxing champions have turned to movies (either while they were champ or after) as a way to "cash in" on their fame, but Gene Tunney (who was champion at the time this movie was filmed) obviously wisely realized that this was not for him, and never appeared in another movie. Also, like many serials, a feature version was edited from the 10 chapters and released to theaters separately. Finally, note that this is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.

Here are images of the front, back, and interior pages:

Each month I will showcase a different pressbook (or related item) from my collection (so in just 25,000 weeks or so, I will have shared the entire collection with you!).