Word: presold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggest conclusions for the story, for $6,000 in prizes. The prize contest disguised the real purpose of the broadcast: to create such suspense among the radio audience that all would rush to see the cinema. Advertisements for the trade called The Phantom of Crestwood "the picture that was presold to a hundred million," assured exhibitors that "all America wants to know who killed Jenny Wren...