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Auction History Result 1p0584 LEOPARD MAN pressbook 1943 Jacques Tourneur, Val Lewton, cool cat monster art, ultra rare! Date Sold 2/15/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 17" [28 x 43 cm]; 12 pages) (Learn More) The Leopard Man, the 1943 Jacques Tourneur wild-animal-on-the-loose murder mystery crime thriller ("Women alone the victims of strange, savage killer!"; "You'll gasp with amazement!"; "Thrill-Killer of Women and Girls!"; "You'll be astounded to learn that such things can happen!"; "Death striking from the dark with ripping fury!...Was it man or beast that tore to shreds victim after victim - striking only at defenseless beauty? ...Know the truth about these murders-for-a-thrill!"; "Produced by Val Lewton"; based on the novel 'Black Alibi' by Cornell Woolrich; as in "Cat People", Lewton and Tourneur did not have money for much make-up or special effects, so the posters for this movie promise much more than the film actually delivered in terms of a monster, but the movie works quite well on its own terms!) starring Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Bell, Ben Bard, Abner Biberman, and Margaret Landry. A knowledgeable collector tells us that this may be the first film to use the desert of the American Southwest as a setting for a horror film. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we were recently 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!). Now we continue to auction pressbooks from this collection, which is absolutely the finest collection of pressbooks we have ever been consigned. In this set of auctions, we are solely auctioning larger pressbooks, mostly 14" x 17" 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 can't be found in great condition, and some of them are printed on newsprint, and are hard to find in even lesser condition. We have many 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! Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this first release pressbook, and that was 18 years ago, when it sold for $190! Also note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook (if the back cover is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster page), 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 received 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: very good to fine, NO CUTS. This very large pressbook is complete and uncut, and it was never folded. Learn More about condition grades 
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