The following is a collection of print media from the initial runs of 1956's "Curucu, Beast of the Amazon" in the Pacific Northwest. "The Mole People" was the second movie in both Portland and Seattle.
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Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956)
Rock Dean and Dr. Andrea Romar travel up the Amazon River to find out why the plantation workers have left their work in panic, allegedly because of attacks from Curucu, a monster who is said to live up the river where no white man has ever been before.
Director: Curt Siodmak
Writer: Curt Siodmak
Stars: John Bromfield, Beverly Garland, Tom Payne
The Mole People (1956)
A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five-millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopotamia.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel
Writer: László Görög
Stars: John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont
November 29, 1956 ad (Seattle)
November 30, 1956 ad (Seattle)
December 1, 1956 ad (Seattle)
December 2, 1956 photo (Seattle)
December 2, 1956 photo (Seattle)
December 12, 1956 ad (Portland)
December 12, 1956 article (Portland)
December 13, 1956 ad (Portland)
December 13, 1956 photo (Portland)
Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956) trailer
The Mole People (1956) trailer
