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This is an eMoviePoster.com stock image. What does this mean?  Auction History Result Lot #: VHP7 049 MARIHUANA lobby card R40s The weed with roots in hell!  Date Sold 7/11/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Appears in Vintage Hollywood Posters 7 CATALOG SOLD OUT The image at right appears in the auction catalog we published as shown above and was sold long ago and we do NOT have it available for purchase. An Undated (probably 1940s) Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Marihuana, the 1935 Dwain Esper marijuana marihuana pot weed drug crime thriller ("Daring Drug Expose!"; "Horror Shame Despair!"; "Today's headlines.... Tomorrow's despair....!"; "What happens at marihuana parties?"; "Lust crime sorrow despair shame hate"; "Not recommended for children"; "Smoke that gets in youth's eyes!"; "Misery"; "Weird orgies, wild parties, unleashed passions!"; "America's Crime Creator!"; "A puff of smoke changed their lives!"; "The weed with roots in Hell!", "The sweet pill...that makes life bitter!"; "The most daring picture ever made!") starring Harley Wood, Gloria Browne, Pat Carlyle, Juanita Crosland, Dorothy Dehn, Paul Ellis, Richard Erskine, Hugh McArthur and Hal Taggart. At the time this movie was meant to be a "daring drug expose", but it is now laughable and a camp classic, and posters from the first release of the movie in 1935 (and the roadshow releases that followed it in the late 1930s and early 1940s) are both rare and extremely desired by collectors. Important Added Info: Note that this movie was originally released in 1935. Dwain Esper, the director and a master showman, kept releasing this movie throughout the 1940s, and, partly thanks to his lurid ad campaigns, the movie was a constant money maker! For this 1940s re-release, lobby cards were printed with a blank area in the upper right where different 8x10 stills were glued onto the card. This particular card has a wonderful image of massively stoned college kids having the beginnings of an orgy while the adult drug pushers look gleefully on! Also note the great border image of the girls lifting their skirts (it may have had nothing to do with pot, but it probably got the movie many extra viewers)! Condition: fine. small smudge in the middle of the top blank border and a 1/2" crease in the bottom border below the "A" of "MARIHUANA" and a smudge in the bottom blank border below the "I" of "MARIHUANA"; Other than these minor defects, the card is in wonderful condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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