The stock poster would be an early second printing of the daybill for the first release seeing it has ''A Universal Picture'' printed on it..The film was released in Australia in early 1945. Universal and International merged in July,1946 and soon after Australian daybills had the Universal International name featured on them. The film received many bookings after being released so one would think they just run short on stock of the original daybill and designed a stock poster to replace it.
It was used again, to fit the period - sort of, for the 1952 film Has Anybody Seen My Gal which is set in the roaring 20s. The stock poster was as close as Universal could get with this 1940's design.
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The stock poster would be an early second printing of the daybill for the first release seeing it has ''A Universal Picture'' printed on it..The film was released in Australia in early 1945. Universal and International merged in July,1946 and soon after Australian daybills had the Universal International name featured on them. The film received many bookings after being released so one would think they just run short on stock of the original daybill and designed a stock poster to replace it.
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It was used again, to fit the period - sort of, for the 1952 film Has Anybody Seen My Gal which is set in the roaring 20s. The stock poster was as close as Universal could get with this 1940's design.
Hondo