PHANTOM FROM 10,000 LEAGUES

Original 1954 British 11 inch x 8 1/8 inch Trade Advert for the 1956 Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributor’s releases of the Joseph Walton (Joseph Losey) Drama THE INTIMATE STRANGER starring Richard Basehart, Mary Murphy, Constance Cummings, Roger Livesey and Mervyn Johns

plus the 1955 Roger Corman Horror Movie THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED starring Richard Denning, Lori Nelson and Adele Jergens

PLUS the 1955 Dan Milner Horror Movie THE PHANTOM FROM 10,000 LEAGUES starring Kent Taylor, Cathy Downs and Michael Whalen.

A small but resourceful production/distribution company, Anglo-Amalgamated was set up in 1945 by two energetic and astute businessmen, Nat Cohen and Stuart Levy. They began by making low-budget thrillers for the bottom half of the double bill, and, gambling shrewdly on new talents, showed themselves cleverly attuned to changing market demands, until, in 1969, they were swallowed up in ABPC/EMI. Their earliest productions were half-hour features such as The Drayton Case (d. Ken Hughes, 1953), with plotlines which attested to the unceasing vigilance of Scotland Yard, and with portentous introductions by Edgar Lustgarten. By the ’60s, these had given way to hour-long thrillers drawn chiefly from the works of Edgar Wallace and made at the austere studios at Merton Park.

The advert is in very good condition.