ECCO The Forbidden - Original 1963 and 21 similar items

Authentic, Vintage Black White Movie Promo Photograph for "Ecco, the Forbidden." Photo released by National Screen Service Corporation. Measures approximately 8 x 10 including white border. Condition: This is an original photograph, not a copy or reproduction. It has some pin holes, staple marks, and crimping. Comments: Ecco retains much of the production qualities of the previous year's Mondo Cane , including a dramatic music score from Riz Ortolani. Relatively classy English narration by actor George Sanders helped to earn Ecco a wide American release. Sanders' bemused voice lends credibility to the film's stated aim of showing us the extremes of behavior that make up the human race. The Italian word Ecco means "look here," or "behold." Filmed in color and widescreen, Ecco features a couple of intriguing subjects among a long list of phony, staged events. In Japan, a ritual festival called Saidachi involves hundreds of loin-clothed men rushing from freezing water to jam into an open-air pagoda and struggle for possession of a piece of paper. And a demonstration in Lapland of a traditionally garbed maiden castrating an adult reindeer with her teeth is equally baffling.