This is an 18" x 26" Italian busta poster for the 1964 Byron Haskin
film Robinson Crusoe on Mars inspired by Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson
Crusoe, based on a screenplay by Ib Melchior and John C. Higgins and
starring Paul Mantee as Commander Christopher 'Kit' Draper. Plot
summary: Commander Draper has gotten stranded on Mars and must work
out survival procedures while living in a cave with a small monkey,
the only other survivor from his ship. After 147 days aliens with
humanoid slaves arrive on the planet; Commander Draper adopts an
escaped slave [Victor Lundin] as his man Friday.
Cast and crew: Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, Aubrey Schenck, Byron Haskin, John Higgins, Daniel Defoe
This is a 13" x 27" Australian hand litho daybill for the 1964 Byron
Haskin film Robinson Crusoe on Mars, adapted from the 1719
novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, based on a screenplay by
Ib Melchior and John C. Higgins and starring Paul Mantee as Commander
Christopher 'Kit' Draper. Plot Summary: Commander Draper is forced to
land on Mars in an escape pod due to a fuel emergency on his mother
ship; he loses the other member of his crew, Colonel Dan McReady,
[Adam West] who is killed when his escape pod crashes. His only
remaining companion is Mona, a flight-test monkey who has survived the
crash in McReady's pod. He later rescues a slave [Victor Lundin]
being held on an alien spacecraft; he names his new companion Friday
and begins teaching him English. In return, Friday shares his supply
of oxygen pills with Kit.
Cast and crew: Adam West, Daniel Defoe, Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, Aubrey Schenck, Byron Haskin, Ib Melchior, John Higgins
This is an 11" x 17" two-sided press sheet for the 1955 Byron Haskin
noir film Killer Bait, a rerelease of the 1949 Too Late for
Tears, based on a serial written for the Saturday Evening
Post and a screenplay both by Roy Huggins and starring Lizabeth
Scott as Jane Palmer. Plot summary: Jane and Alan Palmer [Arthur
Kennedy] are driving to a party late at night on a lonely highway when
a satchel containing about $60000 is unexpectedly tossed into their
back seat. The money is obviously meant for someone else because they
have to evade a pursuer on the way home; when they examine the stash
in their Hollywood apartment Alan wants to turn it in to the police,
but Jane wants to hang on to it so Alan puts it in a locker at Union
Station to satisfy her. Before long someone named Danny Fuller [Dan
Duryea] comes to their apartment posing as a detective, but then drops
the facade when he finds some newly purchased goods and realizes Jane
has been spending the stash; he claims the money belongs to him. Jane
tells Danny she will split the money with him, but she really plans to
kill him when she gets him out into the hills. Danny realizes he
cannot trust Jane and flees. In a later altercation Jane shoots her
husband during a boat ride, dumps him in the lake and then reports him
to the police as a missing person. Jane later retrieves the money
from the locker and goes to Danny's apartment to ask for his help, but
ends up killing him with a poisoned drink instead.
Cast and crew: Byron Haskin, Roy Huggins, Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, Kristine Miller, Barry Kelley, Hunt Stromberg
