Spanish title: Maciste Contra Los Monstruos (Maciste vs the Monsters)
Stars: Reg Lewis, Margaret Lee
Directed by: Guido Malestesta
Distributor: Embassy Pictures Corporation (US), Telexport (Italy)

"A mysterious world in the prehistoric apocalyptic era, millon of years before Christ!"

In the world of Italian swords and sandals pulp film ‘epics’, Maciste is a fairly regularly-seen character.  In fact, he first appeared on film in Italy in the 1914 silent flick, Cabiria. He’s usually a sort of Hercules, who has incredible strength and gets in all manner of peril trying to help people against injustice.

In this film, despite the title, the story actually focuses on two warring tribes, with Maciste stuck in the middle. Not many monsters to be seen, but when you look at the variety of titles this film has had over the years, it has been clearly named not with story in mind, but box office.

In the US, it was Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules, while in the UK it was Collossus of the Stone Age. In Germany, it was Germanicus in the Underworld. And in the original Italian, Maciste contro i mostri (Maciste vs the Monsters).

The lobby card design is all original artwork, though none of it is particularly impressive. There’s a real focus on the monsters, obviously, but the character portrayed looks nothing at all like Reg Lewis, so there’s a good chance this was actually stock art being reused from other films.

Looks good, framed, hanging in a den, though! 

Spanish title: Los Goonies
Stars: Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Martha Plimpton, Curtis Hanson, Robert Davi, Joe Pantoliano
Directed by: Richard Donner
Distributor: Indefilms 

"The light, the map, the caves, the death traps, the treasure… all part of the adventure of The Goonies"

This lobby card design is pretty standard – it’s the illustrated image from the poster that was used all over the world. So why is it here? Because it’s awesome – duh. 

"The only thing we serve here is tongue! You boys like tongue?"

Nothing much to add, except that it was released in South America by an outfit called Indefilms, which still seems to be in operation in De Valle. The printing of the lobby card was handled by Impresora Rodelo S.A.

Spanish title: Leyenda
Stars: Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, David Bennet, Alice Playten, Billy Barty, Cork Hubbert
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Distributor: 20th Century Fox

"Good does not exist without evil. Nor love without hatred.
Nor innocence without guilt. I am the Dark."

You won’t find many Tom Cruise movies here – mostly because he’s a nutbar – but we couldn’t resist this eerie design. The couple embracing while a giant horned demon looks on? Great stuff.

Legend is the story of a demon who decides to end daylight by killing a unicorn and marrying a fairy princess, only to be challenged by a simple farm boy (Cruise) and his Elven friends in a fight for the future of the universe. It took over three years to complete, partly because the soundstage it as being shot on burned down during the shoot.

Mia Sara hadn’t yet taken her star turn as Sloane Petersen in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off when she did this role, but it didn’t seem to do much for her career either way, as she all but dropped off the face of the pop culture planet afterwards; a fate that has befallen a lot of Tom Cruise’s leading ladies over the years (Elizabeth Shue anyone?)

This lobby card is in the kind of shape you’d expect from a recent release (if we can call twenty years ago ‘recent’. And hey, if we hold on to it long enough, it’ll eventually be worth something.