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Auction History Result 5w464 GAMBLING WITH SOULS 3sh '36 a timely warning to the young womanhood of America, rare! Date Sold 4/6/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Three-Sheet Movie Poster (3sh; measures 41" x 81" [104 x 206 cm]) (Learn More) Gambling with Souls (released in 1937 as "The Vice Racket"; see below), the 1936 Elmer Clifton gambling murder prostitution crime thriller ("It rips the lid off the problem of how innocent women go wrong"; "The most talked about attraction in the world today"; "How young girls are lured into a life of SHAME"; "BOLD! FRANK! REVEALING!"; "Women of today sold into bondage"; "Actually adapted from authentic police records"; "It blasts the truth before your eyes!"; "Scarlet girls chained to the vultures of vice"; "The price of ignorance - dollars in exchange for virtue!"; "Exposing New York City's $20,000,000 traffic in SOULS!"; "Save - the womanhood of America!"; "Adults Only!"; about the wife of a medical student who begins gambling at an illegal casino run by a gangster, and ends up owing $9,000, and becomes a prostitute for the gangster to pay her debts, and her younger sister becomes involved as well, and gets pregnant and has a botched abortion during which she dies, which causes the lead actress to shoot the gangster who had been the cause of her troubles, and she is put on trial, which is how the movie opens, and she tells her sordid story in flashbacks) starring Martha Chapin, Wheeler Oakman, Bryant Washburn, Gaston Glass, Ed Keane, Florence Dudley, Gay Sheridan, Robert Fraser, Vera Steadman, and Janet Eastman. Note that this movie was banned in New York in 1936, and was released there a year later under a new title "The Vice Racket"! Dating movie paper from this title is incredibly difficult, unless it is a window card that gives the date in the play date area at the top. We have seen a window card with the "Gambling With Souls" title that is surely from 1937 and a window card with the "Vice Racket" title that is surely from 1938. The non-window card items that exist have no studio on them, and have a clear "roadshow" look to them, as though they were printed when the movie was being shown in specific towns, which may well be the case. If anyone has ever seen any poster that appears to surely be the first release, and has any producer or distributor credit, please e-mail us and we will post that information here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have never auctioned this three-sheet before! As noted above, it is almost impossible to date this poster, because it seems likely that this movie played for several years (at least) in small towns throughout America, and also as noted above, that the title of this movie seems to have been changed in 1937 or 1938 to "Vice Racket", so that makes it more likely that this poster dates from 1936 or 1937. We are leaving it as first release from 1936, but please only bid if you can accept that it could be from a slightly later time. Also note that this three-sheet was printed in 2 sections designed to overlap. Condition: good to very good. There is separation, tiny tears, and tiny bits of paper loss on parts of several folds, and some small tears in the borders. After a relatively simple linenbacking, the poster will look fantastic, but it is currently fragile and needs to be backed, so bear that expense in mind before placing a bid on this rare poster that we have never auctioned before! Learn More about condition grades 
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