Wild Postcards

English, Gorn captain, do you speak it?

This fun little Star Trek card (featuring the Gorn captain from the original series episode Arena) is part of the Star Trek Postcard Box, published by Chronicle Books and containing a total of 30 cards, most of which are humorous. Well, if you’re a Trekkie, anyway.

Johnny Depp: From Hell

Although this is an apt description of Johnny Depp, it specifically refers to the Hughes Brothers film From Hell. Published by AvantCard Australia for foxmovies.com.au.

"Take me, I'm yours if you'll take me..."

This Continental-sized card was published in 1983 by Camden Graphics Ltd. of London. In it, we see the cover of the sheet music for “Take Me”, written in 1920, with words by Harry Edelheit, and music by Clarence Senna and Monte Carlo (which sounds like an obvious alias to me).

The original lyrics are basically about a one-night stand: “Promise me not a thing…. Take me, tho you may forsake me, who cares if you take me and love me tonight.” In other words, the singer is horny.

It was revived and recorded by several bands in the 1940s, most notably by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra on vocals, in 1942. You can hear a snippet of it on iTunes but, unfortunately, the 30-second sample contains music only. But the lyrics were made much more wholesome for our broadcast audience: “But as long as I shall live, I’ll only live for you…. Take me, and never forsake me, my darling please take me, and make me your own.” I’m sure there were a few folks around then who remembered the original song, and got a chuckle over the changes.

Girls ensnared into lives of shame!

This modern postcard is a reproduction of the movie poster for Slaves In Bondage (1937). In All Movie Guide, Jason Buchanan writes: “A police raid on a roadhouse leads to a war on vice that results in the downfall of a vicious gangster and the sadistic madam who runs his prostitution ring in this sordid crime drama from director Elmer Clifton. While she may be beautiful on the outside, on the inside Belle Harris (Florence Dudley) is a hateful monster who relishes the opportunity to turn innocent young girls into money-grubbing prostitutes as she oversees the day-to-day duties at the Berrywood Roadhouse. Though Belle may be a cold corrupter, her physically abusive boss, Jim Murray (Wheeler Oakman), is even worse. As the police close in on Murray’s lawless syndicate and his empire comes crumbling down, the truth comes out for all to see when the city reporters descend upon the hapless women he has so callously enslaved.”