Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1958)

Page scan 000730 from Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin

Record Details:

Title:
Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin
Date:
1958
Author:
Film Bulletin Company
Publisher:
New York, Film Bulletin Company
Volume:
Film Bulletin (1958)
Leaf #:
000730
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
East Coast exhibitor publication. Founded in 1934 by the Independent Exhibitors' Protective Association in response to the perceived shortcomings of Motion Picture Herald and the Motion Picture Theatre Owners (MPTO). Served as a news source, reviewing service, and forum for independent exhibitors to share their many grievances. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
August 01, 2024
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The first glimpse anyone catches of the art created on the United Artists' drawing boards for "Anna Lucasta," reveals the film's theme. The curvaceous forms v\/hich emerge boldly from the ads and the posters cry out "Anna's" tragic story — the seamy, sordid tale of a girl v/ho "v/ent v^rong", a v\/aterfront tramp. Having chosen the most appropriate blending of black and gray tones and shadows to create the lusty — and, at the same time, pathetic — atmosphere of the streetwalker, the artists bent to the task of presenting the female form set against these shades in a most provocative manner. The results, a sample of which Page 14 Film BULLETIN December 22, 1958 is shown above, provide some of the most surefire eye-catchers of the new season. Walking the waterfront wharves or just tossing a saucy hip to the reader as she saunters away, "Anna" is every inch the wicked wench, while her sailor sweetheart lingers in the background The partially undraped figure of Anna^ back to the viewer, seen here at the right is the motif of many of the ads. This must strike many as a tragic figure. As a matter of fact, most of the art on "Anna Lucasta", for all its display of anatomy, has a plaintive quality, an element that many spectators will find inherent in the central character herself.