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Cool Item Of the Week: Cannibal Attack pressbookReturn to Cool Item of the Month Archive Added: 05/07/2018 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! This week, I have the pressbook from Cannibal Attack, the 1954 Lee Sholem Africa jungle adventure thriller ("Torn from the blackest pages in the history of the dark continent!"; "An amazing thrill-adventure among human man-eaters!") starring Johnny Weissmuller, Judy Walsh, David Bruce, Kimba (the chimp!), Bruce Cowling, and Joseph Allen. Note that this movie was one of three movies Johnny Weissmuller made after his long-running series of "Jungle Jim" movies (this was in fact, Weissmuller's very final movie!). In those three movies, which resembled "Jungle Jim" movies in every way, Weissmuller is not called "Jungle Jim", but is billed as himself! The rights for the Jungle Jim character had been sold to Screen Gems which was going to make a TV series (starring Weissmuller) but producer Sam Katzman still had three stories pending with the Jungle Jim character. Rather than shelving the projects, he simply changed the character's name to Johnny Weissmuller. Here is an image of the front cover, back cover, and an inside spread: Each week I will showcase a different pressbook (or related item) from my collection (so in just 25,000 weeks or so, I will have shared the entire collection with you!). 
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