Recently acquired: five vintage film flyers

EFSP focuses on film star postcards, but we love to side-step once in a while. Today we share five flyers or leaflets which we found recently. Two were made in the Netherlands in the early 1930s for two Hollywood films, Employees' Entrance (Roy Del Ruth, 1933) and The Sign of the Cross (Cecil B. DeMille, 1932). The other three are German-language "programm-hefte" for three classics, Fritz Lang's last German film before he fled to Hollywood, Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse/The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933), and two Hitchcock classics, To Catch A Thief (1955) and Psycho (1960).

The Sign of the Cross (1932)

Dutch flyer, part 1. Adrienne Ames in The Sign of the Cross (Cecil B. DeMille, 1932).


Dutch flyer, part 2. Charles Laughton, Fredric March, Elissa Landi, and Claudette Colbert in The Sign of the Cross (Cecil B. DeMille, 1932).


Dutch flyer, part 3. Fredric March in The Sign of the Cross (Cecil B. DeMille, 1932).

Employees' Entrance (1933)

Dutch flyer, part 1. Photo: Warner Bros / First National Pictures. Alice White in Employees' Entrance (Roy Del Ruth, 1933).


Dutch flyer, part 2. Photo: Warner Bros / First National Pictures. Loretta Young, Warren William, and Alice White in Employees' Entrance (Roy Del Ruth, 1933).


Dutch flyer, part 3. Photo: Warner Bros / First National Pictures. Loretta Young and Warren William in Employees' Entrance (Roy Del Ruth, 1933).

Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933)

German flyer by Illustrierte Film-Kurier, no. 1168, 1952, part 1. Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse/The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang, 1933).


German flyer by Illustrierte Film-Kurier, no. 1168, 1952, part 2. Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse/The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang, 1933).


German flyer by Illustrierte Film-Kurier, no. 1168, 1952, part 3. Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse/The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang, 1933).


German flyer by Illustrierte Film-Kurier, no. 1168, 1952, part 4. Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse/The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang, 1933).

To Catch A Thief (1955)

German flyer by Illustrierte film-bühne, no. 3076, part 1. Photos: Paramount. Cary Grant in To Catch A Thief (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955).


German flyer by Illustrierte film-bühne, no. 3076, part 2. Photos: Paramount. Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in To Catch A Thief (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955).


German flyer by Illustrierte film-bühne, no. 3076, part 3. Photos: Paramount. Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in To Catch A Thief (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955).


German flyer by Illustrierte film-bühne, no. 3076, part 4. Photos: Paramount. Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in To Catch A Thief (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955).

Psycho (1960)

Austrian flyer (front) by Neues Film-programm, no. 2073, October 1960. Photo: Afex. Vera Miles, John Gavin, and Janet Leigh in Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960).


Austrian flyer (back) by Neues Film-programm, no. 2073, October 1960. Photo: Afex. Alfred Hitchcock in the trailer for Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960). Caption: Pst ... Please don't reveal anything about the end of the film.