Entertainment that all but explodes with dramatic tension!
...the fleeting emptiness, inevitable pretense, necessary concealments of a clandestine love...a mature theme that neither evades the issue nor spares the spectator.
The men she loved she destroyed!
He's the only one that came out alive ... and now he wants my life ... to atone for the others'
TERROR! Stalked the Brush-Choked Island...Where Men Who Were Animals Sought the Girl Who Was All-Human!
I Want a Man... Not a Human Punching Bag!
WOMEN SPOKE OF HER with Scorn...MEN THOUGHT OF HER with Longing!
Rackets Ride The Roads!
When you Double-Cross a Double-Crosser...IT'S A CRISS-CROSS!
Some Men Destroy What They Love Most!
Three of the most exciting people you ever had in a picture!
Deanna... on a Man (Oh! Man) Hunt!
Suspense as startling as a strangled scream !
In all your life you've seen no portrayals to match the thrill of the unquenchable love of Joan Crawford for Van Heflin in "Possessed".
THE SCREEN'S GREATEST EXCITEMENT OF THE YEAR! (original print ad - all caps)
The Year's most Outspoken Picture
Trailing a «tiptoe» killer!
It will mark you for life as it marked him for... Betrayal
Roaring Down the World's Deadliest Roads!
The Most Startling Story The Screen Has Ever Dared Reveal!