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Auction History Result m138 GAMBLING WITH SOULS jumbo 22x28 movie window card '38 Vice Racket! Date Sold 10/11/2005Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Jumbo Window Card Movie Poster (measures 22" x 28") (Learn More) Gambling with Souls (released in 1937 as "The Vice Racket"; see below), the 1936 Elmer Clifton gambling murder prostitution crime thriller ("It rips the lid off the problem of how innocent women go wrong"; "The most talked about attraction in the world today"; "How young girls are lured into a life of SHAME"; "BOLD! FRANK! REVEALING!"; "Women of today sold into bondage"; "Actually adapted from authentic police records"; "It blasts the truth before your eyes!"; "Scarlet girls chained to the vultures of vice"; "The price of ignorance - dollars in exchange for virtue!"; "Exposing New York City's $20,000,000 traffic in SOULS!"; "Save - the womanhood of America!"; "Adults Only!"; about the wife of a medical student who begins gambling at an illegal casino run by a gangster, and ends up owing $9,000, and becomes a prostitute for the gangster to pay her debts, and her younger sister becomes involved as well, and gets pregnant and has a botched abortion during which she dies, which causes the lead actress to shoot the gangster who had been the cause of her troubles, and she is put on trial, which is how the movie opens, and she tells her sordid story in flashbacks) starring Martha Chapin, Wheeler Oakman, Bryant Washburn, Gaston Glass, Ed Keane, Florence Dudley, Gay Sheridan, Robert Fraser, Vera Steadman, and Janet Eastman. Note that this movie was banned in New York in 1936, and was released there a year later under a new title "The Vice Racket"! Dating movie paper from this title is incredibly difficult, unless it is a window card that gives the date in the play date area at the top. We have seen a window card with the "Gambling With Souls" title that is surely from 1937 and a window card with the "Vice Racket" title that is surely from 1938. The non-window card items that exist have no studio on them, and have a clear "roadshow" look to them, as though they were printed when the movie was being shown in specific towns, which may well be the case. If anyone has ever seen any poster that appears to surely be the first release, and has any producer or distributor credit, please e-mail us and we will post that information here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that low budget sexploitation movies such as this were commonly kept in distribution for several years by distributors who would take them around the country showing them in small towns (sometimes only at late night shows). Although this movie was made in 1936, the date on this jumbo window card dates it to 1938, but it is almost a certainty the movie was in continuous release somewhere during those two years! What a wild and risque image this poster has, considering it is from 1938 (a giant hand holding four nude girls MUST have been daring at this time!). I would sure think this was a "must see" movie in the towns it played in! Condition: good. There are small areas of paper loss in the top and bottom borders and one small chip in the upper part of the right blank border. There are pairs of staple holes and some tears around the edges of the poster. There are scuff marks in the top tagline area and a few scattered smudges and scuffs throughout the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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