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The Judge Steps Out (released in other English-speaking countries as "Indian Summer"), the 1948 Boris Ingster romantic love triangle midlife crisis lawyer legal comedy ("Rx Forget your family troubles... Forget your Job and Run RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!! A.S. Boyd, M.D."; "..That's what the doctor ordered.. [and that's exactly what he did]"; "Ever wonder what happens when a judge steps out!"; "It's scandalous! Tongues wag and drawing rooms hum, when this prominent Boston judge 'gets away from it all' ...and ends up with his hands full - of a beautiful blonde!"; "The judge was very good as husbands go... and as husbands go, he went!"; "'MY husband wouldn't do that'!... [Oh, no?]"; "When a famous judge disappeared to keep a date with a day dream - his family and friends tried to laugh it off... but they didn't know the judge!"; "The story of a slightly illegal holiday that shocked the nation!"; about a Boston judge who is married with a grown daughter about to be married, and on impulse, he takes off for California without telling his family, and there he meets the beautiful owner of a roadside diner, and he becomes her fry cook!) starring Alexander Knox (in the title role as Judge Thomas Bailey), Ann Sothern, George Tobias, Sharyn Moffett, Florence Bates, Frieda Inescort, and Myrna Dell. Note that this is a very interesting movie that is almost completely forgotten today. It deals with a midlife crisis before people talked about that, but it is somewhat marred by its conventional ending (likely the only one that 1948 audiences would accept). Something else that hurts the movie is that Alexander Knox was prematurely grey and looked like he might have been the age of Ann Sothern's father, so the movie has an appearance of a "May-December romance", when actually, he was only two years older than Sothern! Finally, note that the movie was a troubled production. It was filmed in March 1947, but it was not opened until June of 1949, over two years later. It did terribly at the box office, costing RKO a loss of $600,000. But it is a worthwhile movie to watch, and I suggest you seek it if its plot sounds at all interesting to you!
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Important Added Info: Note that we were recently consigned a truly remarkable collection of pressbooks (the first 37 were auctioned in our December Major Auction, and the most expensive one sold for $17,500!). Now we continue to auction pressbooks from this collection, which is absolutely the finest collection of pressbooks we have ever been consigned. In this set of auctions, we are solely auctioning larger pressbooks, mostly 14" x 17" or larger. Some of them were folded at one time, but they were stored unfolded for many years, so we left them unfolded, and unless the new owner requests otherwise, we will send them unfolded, because re-folding them would likely lessen the condition. Many of these are ones we have either never auctioned before or only once auctioned before, sometimes many years ago. These were collected decades ago, which was the only time that many of these could be found, and after these auctions are over it may be years (or decades!) before some of these are offered again. They ARE that rare! Note that pressbooks from the 1930s can't be found in great condition, and some of them are printed on newsprint, and are hard to find in even lesser condition. We have many images from each pressbook. We have given each an overall grade, and ask that you look at our images to get a good sense of the condition of that pressbook, because, since they have many pages, it would take forever to describe their condition in detail. However, EVERY one of these pressbooks is complete and uncut!

Note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook (if the back cover is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster page), and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners received pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut!

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