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Auction History Result 7k072 GAMBLING WITH SOULS linen 1sh 1936 rips the lid off how innocent women go wrong, ultra rare! Date Sold 6/15/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 28" x 42" [71 x 107 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 first release posters from this movie are incredibly rare, and it is very difficult to know if they are from the first release, or from the continuous roadshow re-releases over the next few years. In the past, we have auctioned a different one-sheet for this movie that had a completely different image and taglines, but which had a similar "roadshow" look to it. We don't know if either one-sheet is from 1936 or from a 1930s roadshow release. We have never auctioned this poster before! Please do not bid on it unless you can accept the uncertainties as to exactly when it is from. Also note that this one-sheet measures 28" x 42" [71 x 107 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had some small areas of paper loss scattered down the vertical fold, with some in the left half of the top and bottom horizontal folds, and a lesser amount on the other folds. There were some tiny areas of paper loss in the upper left blank border. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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