Phenix City Story, The (1955)

Inserts

14" x 36" (35.5 x 91.5cm)

Good to Very Good. A few pieces of white conservation grade tape on reverse. Original folds but poster has been carefully stored flat.

KARLSON, Phil

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!"