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Auction History Result #2636 MYSTERIANS Belgian '59 Ishiro Honda Date Sold 4/1/2003Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Belgian Movie Poster (measures approximately 12" x 20") (Learn More) Chikyu Boeigun (released in the U.S. in 1959 as "The Mysterians"), the 1957 Ishiro Honda Japanese Toho battling gigantic robot science fiction (sci-fi) thriller ("'The Mysterians are coming! To destroy our cities, to take our women, to enslave us all!'"; "From behind the moon they come... To invade the earth! Abduct its women! Level its cities"; "in Big Screen Color"; "Greatest science-fiction picture ever conceived by the mind of man"; "Electronic war erupts from outer space!"; "Who can say it will not happen?"; "Amazing! Terrifying! Fantastic!"; "See Demons from the darkness behind the moon who top our every top secret! See The master race that smashed the atom before we saw the light of day! See Love-hungry space men abduct Earth's women that they themselves might survive!") starring Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kochi, Akihiko Hirata, and Takashi Shimura. Note that this movie was apparently initially released in the U.S. by RKO, but RKO was having great financial difficulties at this time, and it seems that MGM took over the U.S. release while the movie was still in first release, and that they possibly also had released the movie in English-speaking countries outside the U.S. prior to taking over the U.S. release from RKO. We have had original release posters and lobby cards from both studios (the posters and lobby cards are identical except for the change in studio information). Oddly, we have sold a window card, a half-sheet, and an insert that have both studios' names on it! Most collectors seem to accept both RKO and MGM posters as "first release". NEW INFORMATION! We have been informed by an expert collector/dealer that he believes that RKO went broke during the initial release of this movie, and that MGM took over the distribution during the first release, which would mean that, depending on how you look at it, either both studios' posters are first release, or that the RKOs are the technical first release and that the MGMs are a same-year re-release. If anyone knows more about the distribution of this movie, and these posters, please e-mail us and we will post it here. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this Belgian poster has been trimmed and measures 12" x 20 1/2" and is folded. Condition: very good. approximately 2" has been trimmed from the top blank border 2" tear in the middle of the left edge of the poster; tattering in the upper left blank border; scuffing and minor creases throughout the poster (mostly along the vertical foldline in the middle of the poster) Learn More about condition grades 
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