EACH DAWN I DIE

Original British 17 inch x 22 inch Trade Advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly for the 1939 William Keighley Crime Drama EACH DAWN I DIE, based on the novel by Jerome Odlum and starring James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan, George Bancroft, Maxie Rosenbloom, Stanley Ridges, Alan Baxter, Victor Jory, Louis Jean Heydt, Thurston Hall and Abner Biberman.

A corrupt D.A. with political ambitions is angered by news stories implicating him in criminal activity and decides to frame the reporter who wrote them for manslaughter in order to silence him.

The advert is in very good condition with one horizontal centre fold with a small piece out at the right end and slight separation at the left end.

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.