Original Universal Pictures One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Christy Cabanne crime mystery, THE WESTLAND CASE (1937)—starring Preston Foster, Frank Jenks, Carol Hughes, and Theodore von Eltz. This film chronicles a wisecracking, hard drinking, and womanizing private detective (Foster) who is hired to investigate a murder conviction of a wealthy businessman (Eltz) found guilty of murdering his wife and only six days away from execution. This was the first film produced as part of a new deal with pulp mystery publisher, Crime Club Stories, which allowed Universal to produce four films from its novels per year. This original one sheet poster is folded and in very good condition, with only some etched paper loss along the fold lines. The poster would clean up and present beautifully if linen-backed. A nice example of this type of mystery B-picture.

Original Universal Pictures Scene Lobby Card (11×14) for the Christy Cabanne horror adventure, THE MUMMY’S HAND (1940) starring Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, Wallace Ford, and Tom Tyler as the Mummy. This is the story of a couple of comical, out-of-work archeologists (Foran and Ford) who discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. This film was not a sequel to Karloff’s THE MUMMY (1932) but the start of an entirely different series of films featuring the mummy Kharis, played in this feature by Tyler and by Lon Chaney Jr. in the subsequent features. This original scene lobby card is in fine condition—with a corner missing, numerous pin holes, staining in the border, and a 1″ tear in the lower left section of the image. Only two scene cards show the mummy and this is one of them. Not easily found.