Scarce color 14 x 19 window card for the Roadshow Attractions exploitation film Marihuana, circa 1940s-1950s, featuring the ‘long-haired blonde’ variation of the artwork used to advertise the movie. Some of the text reads: “Daring Drug Expose,” “Shame! Horror, Despair,” “Weed with roots in Hell!,” “What happens at Marihuana parties,” and “Weird Orgies, Wild Parties, Unleashed Passions.” Across the top is an advertisement for the 1940 film Souls in Pawn. In very good condition, with a tear to middle bottom edge repaired on reverse, pin holes to corners, and paper loss to upper left corner tip. The films Marihuana and Souls in Pawn were often featured together during the 1940s and 50s, dating this window card to that period. Originally released in 1936, Marihuana follows the story of a teenage girl who, after unknowingly smoking marijuana once at a party, gets pregnant, runs away from home, gives up the baby, and becomes a degenerate heroin dealer. The film became one of the cult classics of the 1930s.
