eMoviePoster.comCool Item Of the Week: This Man Is News pressbookReturn to Cool Item of the Month Archive Added: 03/07/2016 As many of you know, I, Bruce Hershenson, owner of eMoviePoster.com, have collected pressbooks (and related movie paper like studio yearbooks) for over 30 years, and I have the world's foremost collection of such material. I thought I would share one item with you each week, the type of items you almost surely have never seen before, and which might not come up for sale for DECADES! So below is the pressbook from This Man Is News, the 1938 David MacDonald English newspaper journalism crime murder mystery ("He doesn't report the News...HE MAKES IT!"; about an English newspaper reporter who as a practical joke tells his editor a man was murdered, and before he can say he was joking the editor hangs up and runs the story, but then it turns out the man WAS murdered, only it happened a couple of hours AFTER the phone call, which makes the reporter the prime suspect in the murder!) starring Barry K. Barnes, Valerie Hobson, Alastair Sim, John Warwick, and Philip Leaver. Not that this English movie was clearly influenced by the very successful series of "Thin Man" movies that had started at MGM four years before, because it bears many similarities, including having the reporter and his wife working together and being lushes! There was a second movie with the same lead characters to following year, "This Man In Paris". Movie paper from either of these titles is incredibly scarce, for unknown reasons! Here is an image of the pressbook's covers and two interior pages: Each week I will showcase a different pressbook (or related item) from my collection (so in just 20,000 weeks or so, I will have shared the entire collection with you!). And remember to check out our previous Cool Items of the Week in our Cool Item of the Week archive (which is fully searchable!).
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