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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.
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Important Added Info: Note that this window card is one of an amazing group of eight "Spook Show" window cards we are offering this week on eBay (in eight separate eBay auctions). What are "Spook Shows"? These were special shows at movie theaters (sometimes run at Halloween, sometimes on Saturday nights, and sometimes at other times), but almost always these started late at night, after the regular movie theater's program ended, and often ran into the wee hours of the morning! These "Spook Shows" would often combine two, three, or more horror movies (sometimes classics), and would also almost always have live stage acts that promised (on the advertising) outrageous things that could not possibly happen ("See a person decapitated on stage")! Most of these "Spook Shows" seem to date from the 1940s to the 1960s. It seems that few regular posters or lobby cards were ever made for them, but they would almost always create a window card for a specific theater, and then plaster them all around the town the show was about to play in. It seems that the vast majority of these "Spook Show" window cards were thrown away after use, for few survive, and you rarely see more than one from the exact same show. This week we offer eight different examples of these, and each has wonderful graphics and taglines!

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