DANGEROUS FINGERS

Original British 17 inch x 22 inch Trade Advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly for the 1937 Norman Lee Crime Drama DANGEROUS FINGERS, based on the novel by Vernon Clancey and starring James Stephenson, Betty Lynne, Leslie Perrins, Nadine March, Sally Stewart, D.A. Clarke-Smith, George Merritt, Bryan Herbert, Florence Groves and Philip Ray.

A safecracker, just released from prison, falls in love with a young woman who wants him to go straight. He finds, however, that going straight is easier said than done.

The advert is in very good condition with one vertical centre fold. There is light rippling top centre caused by exposure to moisture.

Trade advertisements are colourful posters aimed at cinema managers, which were either slipped in, or part of, the weekly film trade journals which were available to them by subscription but were not sold to the general public. The large size Trade advertisements are about the size of US half sheet posters and have a centre fold which is usually hard to discern when flat. Most were designed to be pulled out, and some were attached by staples. Most have the date in tiny letters in one of the top corners.
The publishers own copies from the 1930’s were destroyed by fire and water damage during the Blitz and Wartime paper drives decimated those held by cinemas making them quite rare.