WICKED AS THEY COME

Original British 11 inch x 8 1/2 inch Trade Advertisement for the 1956 Ken Hughes Crime Drama WICKED AS THEY COME, based on the novel “Portrait in Smoke” by Bill Ballinger and starring Arlene Dahl, Philip Carey, Herbert Marshall, Michael Goodliffe, Ralph Truman, David Kossoff, Sidney James, Faith Brook and Patrick Allen.

Wicked as They Come stars Arlene Dahl as Kathy Allen, whose sour attitude on life has been formed by a sexual assault in her childhood. Rising out of the shabbiness of the Lower East Side, Kathy ruthlessly climbs the social and financial ladder by using and then abandoning a series of gullible older men. When she finally gets what she wants out of life, it still isn’t enough, and it is this insatiability that leads to her downfall.

The Advertisement is in very good condition.