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Auction History Result 5g0819 LAST OF THE PAGANS pressbook 1935 Alaskan Ray Mala & sexy Lotus Long in the South Seas, rare! Date Sold 8/6/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 14" x 19 3/4" [36 x 50 cm]; 18 pages). Also included is a herald that has 2 pages. (Learn More) Last of the Pagans, the 1935 Richard Thorpe romantic South Seas tropical island adventure melodrama ("White menace in the paradise of the bride-hunters!"; based on the novel 'Typee' by Herman Melville; about the exploitation of natives in the South Seas by white mine and plantation owners; in the movie version, the parts of one of the natives and his girlfriend become the centerpiece, and the exploitation of natives is downplayed) starring Ray Mala (billed as "Mala"), Lotus Long (billed as "Lotus"), Teio A. Tematua, Rangapo A. Taipoo, and Chester Gan NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this pressbook! Note that MGM, being the foremost studio of the 1930s felt they did not need to create wonderful posters for their movies, because they had so many top stars, so often their 1930s posters have simple artwork against a white background with a duotone photo of the top stars! However, they knew that they needed theater owners to book their movies, so they spent quite a bit more money on their pressbooks, often making them close to window card size, with an exact color recreation of the window card image on the cover of the pressbook, and the posters on the back cover in full color, and often a full-color sample herald, "tipped in" to the inside of one of the covers! However, they economized on the interior on these large pressbooks and used newsprint for the interior pages, which in almost every case has aged greatly and is fragile, if not brittle (see below for the exact condition of this pressbook). Condition: fair, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. However, the interiors of MGM pressbooks from this period were printed on a newsprint that was exactly like what was used in newspapers at that time, and it almost always ages terribly, resulting in incredibly brittle insides. The color covers were printed on a better paper, but they tend to chip around the edges. This particular pressbook is incredibly fragile and has chips and paper loss around the edges, so bear this in mind before bidding on this very rare pressbook. Learn More about condition grades 
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