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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 this 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 For the Defense, the 1930 John Cromwell romantic courtroom lawyer legal jury tampering melodrama (about New York's most prominent criminal attorney, who represents the biggest gangsters, and his sexy girlfriend, Kay Francis, is put on trial for manslaughter, and he can't get her off any other way, so he bribes a juror, but then he is arrested himself for jury tampering) starring William Powell ("You've seen him as a Detective - an Escaped Convict - a Gambler - Now see William Powell as the Attorney"), Kay Francis, Scott Kolk, John Elliot, and William B. Davidson. Note that Powell's character was based on a notorious New York attorney, William J. Fallon, known as "The Great Mouthpiece", and the events of the movie strongly parallel those of Fallon's life (and there were other movies that used the life of this colorful lawyer).

Here are images of the front, back, and interior pages:

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!).