Exploding! Like a gun in your face!
A man gambles with justice and covers the bet of his life!
AGAIN THEY TRIUMPH!...The stars of «Human Bondage» in a picture greater than the play!
The story of a man who burnt up his soul for an idol cold as ice!
Every Suspenseful Moment...Every Embrace...Every Kiss - A Breathtaking Experience!
Here's stark, spell-binding drama...raw, human, fervent...speaking right out -- pulling no punches...a dramatic thunderbolt that will shock you right out of your smugness!
IT'S UNIQUE...suspense...mystery...drama!
The Tougher They Are - The Harder They Fall
The Only Thing That's On The Square ...Is The Ring Itself...
THEIR STRANGE STORY...A MASTERPIECE OF SUSPENSE! (print ad - Lubbock Morning Avalanche - Arcadia Theatre - Lubbock, Texas - August 13, 1946 - all caps)
Meet the NEW Dick Powell!
DIFFERENT...DRAMATIC...DARING! (original print media ad - all caps)
Wanted By Two Women! One For Love! One For Murder!
Reporter Uncovers New Clues In Wiecek Case
LADD'S HOT TEMPTED BY TWO WOMEN...TO KISS ONE!... AND KILL THE OTHER ONE!! (print ad - Lubbock Morning Avalanche - Tower Theatre - Lubbock, Texas - August 31, 1946 - all caps)
"She's the one for that bullet--not me!" - Night train West---carrying two mystery women. The secret of one can blast the crime syndicate wide open---and the key killers dare not let it happen!
In washed the tide. Picked from the driftwood at the waterside. A woman, sullen, weary, disillusioned. And a ship's stoker, ashore for a rollicking rouser. A Josef von Sternberg masterpiece (Print Ad- The Observer, ((Newberry, SC)) 26 March 1929)
The men she loved she destroyed!
Entertainment that all but explodes with dramatic tension!
WOMEN SPOKE OF HER with Scorn...MEN THOUGHT OF HER with Longing!