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A magnet featuring Gang Smashers, 1938, by an unknown designer.
The film Gang Smashers follows an undercover female agent who poses as a cabaret singer to expose a racketeering Harlem nightclub owner. Whether a Hollywood production or a low-budget film, the gangster genre was often used to comment on moral decay and economic crisis in the aftermath of Prohibition and the Great Depression.
This poster incorporates many of the quintessential tropes of 1930s gangster movies, including a character with a fixed, stony expression; a fur coat; a reference to gun violence or other action; and a gun aimed at the viewer. The film was also released the same year under the title Gun Moll.
Measures 3.5 x 2.5 inches.
