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Cool Item Of the Week: The Phenix City Story pressbookReturn to Cool Item of the Month Archive Added: 11/05/2018 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! This week, I have the pressbook from The Phenix City Story, the classic 1955 Phil Karlson Alabama newspaper journalism reporter crime film noir melodrama ("Shocking Expose of U.S.A.'s Wickedest City!"; "It shocked the Nation in LIFE, LOOK, and the Saturday Evening Post!"; "Welcome to Phenix City Alabama"; "It's blistering expose won the Pulitzer Prize for the Columbus Ledger!"; "Filmed on the spot in the sin town it took the military to subdue!"; "It took the MILITARY to subdue its rampant corruption and violence!"; "Filmed WHERE IT HAPPENED in the Alabama Sin Town LIFE and LOOK called 'AMERICA'S WICKEDEST CITY'!"; "Exposed in LIFE, LOOK, SAT. EVE. POST, TIME and NEWSWEEK"; "Its flaming expose won the Pulitzer Prize"; "SHOCKING? Yes... But it had to be made! SENSATIONAL? Yes... But true! VIOLENT? Yes... But a warning to all of us!"; about a man who returns to his hometown to find it very corrupt) starring John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant, Edward Andrews, Meg Miles, and James Edwards Here is an image of the front cover, back cover, and an inside spread: Each week I will showcase a different pressbook (or related item) from my collection (so in just 25,000 weeks or so, I will have shared the entire collection with you!). 
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