HIT PARADE OF 1951

Original 1951 British 11 inch x 17 inch Double-Sided Trade Advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly for the 1950 John H. Auer Musical HIT PARADE OF 1951 starring John Carroll, Marie McDonald, Estelita Rodriguez, Frank Fontaine, Grant Withers, Mikhail Rasumny, Michael St. Angel, Paul Cavanagh and Edward Gargan.

While raising cash to pay a debt, a Vegas gambler tricks a night club crooner there who looks like him to play him for a bit.The gambler’s Latina girlfriend opens the eyes of the prissy crooner.

On the reverse is the 11 inch x 8 1/2 inch Trade Advertisement for the 1951 William Castle Crime Drama THE FAT MAN, based on characters created by Dashiell Hammett and starring J. Scott Smart, Julie London, Rock Hudson, Emmett Kelly, Clinton Sundberg, Jayne Meadows, John Russell and Jerome Cowan.

A dentist’s murder is investigated by hefty sleuth Brad Runyan.

plus the 1950 Joseph M. Newman Crime Drama 711 OCEAN DRIVE starring Edmond O’Brien, Joanne Dru, Otto Kruger, Barry Kelley, Dorothy Patrick, Don Porter and Howard St. John.

The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!

The Advertisement is in very good condition with a vertical centre fold. The Fat Man advertisement has a strip of surface paper loss along the right edge.