Columbus movies, Mid-June 1959

A random selection of movie ads from 60 years ago this week in Columbus. First up, The Mysterians, a Japanese sci-fi film, made in 1957, released here in '59. Great title for a not-so-great film. Aliens want to breed with earth women (in the English dub, they say they want to "marry" them). Both are pre-release ads from the week of June 7. It was playing downtown at the Loew's Broad, a theater that closed in 1961. Notice the "cool" advective which referred to the air conditioning, not how hip the theater was.

Next, from on June 17, Watusi (1959) with George Montgomery, one of my favorite B-movie he-men. This King Solomon's Mines sequel played out like a Tarzan movie without a Tarzan figure. Not bad.

Finally, some random movies playing in Columbus in June 1959. Great triple feature of monster movies--I wonder if the King Kong prints had been restored by that time, with the gory scenes of Kong savagery that had been cut in previous reissues.