
movie poster – Wicked – Oct 1931
artist unknown (??orge ??uere = George Bruere?)

Wicked (1931) is an American Pre-Code prison melodrama about a woman who commits murder while trying to save her bandit husband and bears a child in prison

movie poster – Wicked – Oct 1931
artist unknown (??orge ??uere = George Bruere?)

Wicked (1931) is an American Pre-Code prison melodrama about a woman who commits murder while trying to save her bandit husband and bears a child in prison


Alexis Smith is a woman not to be trifled with in ‘Undercover Girl’.

Production still from the lost “alternate” ending to Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) showing Fred MacMurray entering the gas chamber while Edward G. Robinson stands by as a sorrowful witness. This ending was cut from the final release. Wilder thought it was unnecessary, and the Hayes Office thought it was too gruesome.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1963. First Edition.
Basis for the 1966 film noir, starring Glenn Ford, Ricardo Montalban and Rita Hayworth.

cover art by Harry Barton
better image than previously posted


1947 Farrar Strauss hardcover


1948 Penguin/Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Jonas


1954 Signet reissue – cover art by Saul Tepper



Mitchell Hooks (American, 1923-2013)
Gouache on board, 30 x 18-1/4 inches (76.2 x 46.4 cm)
Initialed center right: MH
