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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!

This week, I have the pressbook from The Gangster, the 1947 Gordon Wiles crime film noir ("Shock story of 'The Gangster'!"; "Toppled from throne"; "The man with the scar"; "Gangster's downfall!"; "Extra! - Metropolitan Daily Journal - Extra!"; "Told with bullet force!"; "Screenplay by Daniel Fuchs, from his novel 'Low Company'") starring Barry Sullivan, Belita, Joan Lorring, Akim Tamiroff, Harry Morgan, John Ireland, Elisha Cook Jr., and Sheldon Leonard. Note that this movie was originally released as "The Gangster", but that same year it was revised, and was retitled "Low Company" (which was the title of the source novel by Daniel Fuchs).

Here is an image of the pressbook's covers and an interior two-page spread:

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!).