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Auction History Result 2p071 SPECIAL-LATE HALLOWEEN SPOOK & HORROR SHOW Spook Show WC '50s cool art of wacky smiling skull! Date Sold 11/4/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Spook Show Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 13 1/2" x 22") (Learn More) Special-Late Halloween Spook and Horror Show, the circa 1950s double-bill window card from the show held at the Alliance Theater on Wednesday Oct. 31 which played Creature with the Atom Brain, the 1955 Edward L. Cahn science fiction (sci-fi) monster horror thriller ("Shock-full of thrills!"; "Based on Scientific Facts!"; "A dead man stalks his prey! Here is horror that can happen NOW... TO YOU!"; with "Terror true to science, based on laboratory experiments described in national magazines!"; "You won't believe your eyes!"; "Story and Screen Play by Curt Siodmak") starring Richard Denning, Angela Stevens, S. John Launer, Michael Granger, and Gregory Gaye AND IT Came From Beneath the Sea, the 1955 Robert Gordon ocean monster science fiction (sci-fi) horror thriller ("Out of primordial depths to destroy the world!"; "A tidal wave of terror engulfs the screen!"; "Technical Effects Created by Ray Harryhausen") starring Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis and Ian Keith. 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. Condition: very good. The card was roughly folded down the center at one time, resulting in creases down the center, and there are tiny pairs of staple holes around the edges of the card. Learn More about condition grades 
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