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Auction History Result 4s543 KING OF THE CORAL SEA pressbook '56 Chips Rafferty, Rod Taylor, Charles Tingwell! Date Sold 1/25/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1956 Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) King of the Coral Sea, the 1953 (released in the U.S. in 1956) Lee Robinson Australian scuba diving underwater ocean romantic crime adventure thriller ("Sail the South Pacific... to Spectacular Adventure!"; "A beautiful girl is the pawn in a deadly game of deep sea fortune hunting and international intrigue!"; "Actually filmed in the treacherous waters and fabulous islands of the Coral Sea!"; "Thrill-swept adventure on and below the coral reefs!"; about the practice up until the 1950s of hiring illegal aliens to scuba dive to retrieve coral; in the movie, a body is discovered among the coral, and that exposes a ring that is coercing poor people to retrieve coral, and a company has modern machinery that can do the job without risking lives!) starring Chips Rafferty (who co-wrote the screenplay and produced the movie), Ilma Adey, Charles Tingwell, Rod Taylor, and Lloyd Berrell NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: 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 purchased 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: good, NO CUTS. The entire pressbook has slightly darkened. There are creases and a water stain in the top right some pages. Learn More about condition grades 
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