The one-sheet poster, an example of which has never before taken a bow at auction, is the cover lot for a sale of predominantly horror and science-fiction movie posters that embraces everything from the truly scary - Boris Karloff as The Mummy - to the sublimely silly - Rex Reason in The Creature Walks Among Us. It comes from a collection of 65 retrieved from a movie theatre in Jerome, Arizona, because its manager, the vendor's father, could not bring himself to throw them away. Smart move.