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The Battle of the River Plate (released in the U.S. in 1957 as "Pursuit of the Graf Spee"; the movie was also released in England under this title), the 1955 Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger English World War II (WWII) military Navy Naval battle battleship seagoing seafaring ocean sailor drama combat action thriller ("The tremendous story of the victory over the Graf Spee"; "Written Produced and Directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger") starring John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch ("as Captain Langsdorff"), Bernard Lee, Ian Hunter, Jack Gwillim, Christopher Lee (in a bit role as Manolo), Anthony Newley (in an early uncredited role), John Schlesinger (the famous director in an uncredited acting role!), and Muriel Smith (best known as the singing voice of Bloody Mary in South Pacific; in an uncredited singing role, but she is pictured on the bottom of the U.S. insert and English & U.S. one-sheets!)
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Important Added Info: Note that this cool pressbook is a 12" x 18" folder that has two pockets inside that contain multiple sections (see our images).

Note that when studios would prepare pressbooks they would often include a sample of the herald. Most often, the herald is no longer still with the pressbook. Sometimes, the herald by itself will sell for almost as much as the rest of the entire pressbook! This pressbook contains the original herald which is pictured next to the pressbook below. Also 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. Almost every Academy Award winning movie would have a special "Academy Award winner" supplement. 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 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!

Note: We have 11 images of this pressbook, but due to a space limitation, only TEN of the 11 images are displayed above. However, there is a "supersize" link to the right of those images that lets you see the other 1.

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