RAIN

Original British 12 inch x 17 3/4 inch Trade Advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly for the 1932 Lewis Milestone Melodrama RAIN, from the story by W. Somerset Maugham and starring Joan Crawford as Sadie Thompson, Walter Huston, Guy Kibbee, Walter Catlett, Beulah Bondi, Matt Moore and William Gargan..

A prostitute newly arrived in the South Pacific finds herself at odds with a stern missionary determined to save her soul.

The Advertisement was on 2 separate pages which have been joined together with archival tape.

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. 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.