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MONSTERS OF THE DEEP ('31) MONSTERS OF THE DEEP ('31) 1sh OR search current auctions Auction History Result MONSTERS OF THE DEEP 1sheet  Appears in Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Movie PostersBOOK SOLD OUT The image at right appears in the book we published as shown above. While we once owned this item, we did not auction it through eMoviePoster.com (which is why no price or date is listed) nor do we have it available for purchase. Monsters of the Deep, the 1931 Harold Austin ocean fishing documentary ("Presented by Talking Picture Epics Inc., 11 West 42nd Street -- New York City -- N.Y.") narrated by Harold Austin. Note that this was an obscure fishing documentary, and someone once uncovered many examples of the original 1931 one-sheet, which has a duotone image of some fishermen standing by a giant fish they caught. But some VERY enterprising distributor had the wonderful idea of re-distributing this movie in the late 1930s as an action adventure movie, and had an unknown artist create a great image of two boys in the ocean running from a truly frightening giant fish, with the tagline "See - TERRIFIC ENCOUNTER with the DEVIL FISH" (it is kind of like this guy had the idea for "Jaws" decades before Steven Spielberg!). I am sure this poster did wonders for the box office of this movie, but I would love to have seen the look on people's faces after they started watching the movie and realized how badly they had been deceived! Also note that this movie was distributed by "Talking Picture Epics", which was a company that was apparently only in business from around 1930 to 1931 or so, and during that time, they distributed really odd sounding documentaries to exotic locations! In addition to this movie, they also distributed "Bottom of the World", "Across the World with Mr. and Mrs. Johnson", and others, but we strongly suspect that these were not actual movies, but were rather re-titlings of other movies, or possibly compilations from earlier movies (for example, "The Bottom of the World" sounds suspiciously like "With Byrd at the South Pole", and "Across the World with Mr. and Mrs. Johnson" sounds like it would have been a compilation of Osa and Martin Johnson's earlier jungle documentaries). It is quite possible that the only thing that made these "talking pictures" was that a narration was added. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. 
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