YOU CAN’T GET AWAY WITH MURDER

Original British 17 inch x 22 inch Trade Advertisement for the 1939 Lloyd Bacon Prison Drama YOU CAN’T GET AWAY WITH MURDER , based on a play by Lewis E. Lawes & Jonathan Finn and starring Humphrey Bogart, Billy Halop, Gale Page, John Litel, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Joseph Crehan and Harvey Stephens.

Youthful tough Johnnie Stone has fallen under the influence of petty crook Frank Wilson, who involves him and robbery and murder using his sister’s boyfriend’s stolen gun.

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 extremely rare.

The Advertisement is in very good condition with one vertical centre fold.