Attack of the 'b' Movie Posters: The Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters [Paperback]

Bruce Hershenson (Editor)

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Bruce Hershenson (December 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1887893423
• ISBN-13: 978-1887893428
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #481,934 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hooooo Ha!!!!!!!!!!!, March 4, 2001

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Rory Coker (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Attack of the 'b' Movie Posters: The Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters (Paperback)

What a book! All the poster/lobby card compilations by Hershenson and Allen are great, particularly Volume 10, Serial Movie Posters, which I suspect is their best seller to date, soon to be topped by this one.

We can argue about the "B Movie" in the title, since many of the posters and lobby cards shown are for exploitation, road show, and drive-in films, and there are some A features to be found in these pages as well. But that's a quibble.

What images! These were intended to get the farmers off their wagons and into the theatre, and they do serve that purpose. Have a gander at the incredible poster for I LOVE TROUBLE (39), a masterpiece in several senses of the word and from many points of view. The poster for TOMCATS (237) exhibits a very poor understanding of human anatomy but it would cause any healthy male of any age to fumble unconsciously in the general direction of the fly of his trousers. A number of posters and lobby cards feature the immortal Mamie Van Doren, protruding further than seems humanly possible (100, for instance) and Jayne Mansfield (for example 112) is no slouch along those lines herself.

I'd love to have seen a poster for BOP GIRL GOES CALYPSO starring Judy Tyler, but one can't have everything! Highest possible recommendation, and keep those hands away from that fly.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More cheese, please! (with apologies to MST3K), March 19, 2007

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Thomas E. Stazer "torgotom" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Attack of the 'b' Movie Posters: The Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters (Paperback)

All of Bruce Hershenon's books are worth a dozen times what he sells them for; flawless, stunning reproductions of great movie posters. Buy them ALL!

5.0 out of 5 stars About the book itself, May 26, 2011

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FEZZ (CO) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Attack of the 'b' Movie Posters: The Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters (Paperback)

Just received this book and it is just awesome, the size is perfect, some of the posters are reproduced in an entire page, just just get great reproductions of the film posters (not any bla bla bla facts, just the art), every B-movie aspect is represented, even exploitation, horror and sci-fi fantasy are here in a couple of pages each (which are available as other full volumes) simply awesome, wish others volumes were available trough amazon at this price!