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As many of you know, I, Bruce Hershenson, owner of eMoviePoster.com, have collected pressbooks (and related movie paper like studio yearbooks) for over 30 years, and I have the world's foremost collection of such material. I thought I would share one item with you each week, the type of items you almost surely have never seen before, and which might not come up for sale for DECADES!

So below is the pressbook from King of the Underworld, the 1939 Lewis Seiler female medical doctor gangster crime thriller ("Don't kill this killer! Bring him back alive!"; "Cornered! Cringing in fear stands the King of Killers!... Useless the gun at his hip. He's trapped by a daring woman's trick!"; "'Let me go! I'm a doctor! What do you want of me?'"; "'Get smart, sister! We can do business together!'"; "He was too tough to die, this ruthless dictator of crime... until this daring woman doctor gambled her life that medicine would win where bullets had failed!"; "When she double-crosses the king of double-crossers it's excitement with the silencers off!"; "Humphrey Bogart now blasts his way to stardom as the ruthless, thrilling King of the Underworld"; "The super-gangster of 'Angels With Dirty Faces' in his most ruthless role"; about a female doctor in a small town who is forced to help a notorious gangster) starring Humphrey Bogart, Kay Francis, James Stephenson, John Eldredge, and Jessie Busley. Note that this was a remake of the 1935 Paul Muni movie, "Dr. Socrates", except the sex of the doctor was changed to female for this remake!

Here is an image of the pressbook's covers and two interior pages:

   

Each week I will showcase a different pressbook (or related item) from my collection (so in just 20,000 weeks or so, I will have shared the entire collection with you!). And remember to check out our previous Cool Items of the Week in our Cool Item of the Week archive (which is fully searchable!).