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Auction History Result 2p064 SPECIAL HALLOWEEN MIDNITE SHOW Spook Show jumbo WC '50s Oct. 30, the night before, cool image! Date Sold 11/4/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Spook Show Jumbo Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 21" x 24 3/4") (Learn More) the circa 1950s Spook Show double-bill release ("Special Halloween midnite show!"; "Saturday Oct. 30 about 11:30 P.M."; "Chills! Spooks! Thrills!") of Sudden Fear, the 1952 David Miller crime film noir horror thriller ("The clock ticked on!..."; "'I Was Made To Live For Him... To Die For Him!... But Now I Could Kill Him!"; "A thrilling new high in suspense melodrama!"; "Every terrored second swept her closer to desperation in heartbreak... Closer to murder... Closer to a clash with the secret woman in her husband's life!"; "A new high suspense melodrama!"; "Heartbreak... Poised on a trigger of terror!"; "Based on Edna Sherry's Story, 'Sudden Fear'") starring Joan Crawford (in her nominated for Best Actress Academy Award role), Jack Palance (in his nominated for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award role), Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett, Virginia Huston, and Touch Connors AND The Mummy's Ghost, the 1944 Reginald Le Borg Universal monster horror thriller sequel ("Nameless! Fleshless! Deathless!") starring Lon Chaney Jr. (reprising his role "as Kharis, The Mummy"), John Carradine, Ramsay Ames, Barton MacLane, George Zucco, Robert Lowery, and Claire Whitney. This was a poster for a "spook show" of the 1930s ("spook shows" started in the 1930s, and continued into the late 1960s, with their greatest prominence in the late 1940s and 1950s). Local theaters would book three to five low budget movies, and then advertise them as a late night "spook show". Often they would have "live" acts on stage (sometimes famous actors who had appeared in monster movies would appear on stage in full make up, and sometimes it would be local actors dressed as monsters), and often the posters would make outrageous promises (sometimes they might say a person would be beheaded on stage, etc!). Not too many of these spook show posters survive (almost all the known surviving ones are window cards, some of which are 14" x 22", and some of which are 22" x 28", and the shows certainly had very limited runs). The few "spook show" window cards that DO survive are rarely in even "very good" condition. If anyone knows more about this specific spook show or this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it 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 this spook show window card advertises a special "night before Halloween" midnight show, which was held on October 30th. We have another window card from the very same spook show, but that one is from the "night OF Halloween", October 31st, and that window card, which has different graphics and text, is in a separate auction. Condition: very good to fine. There are some faint smudges and scuffs scattered through the image and a few minor border defects, but overall, the card is in nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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