Originally released in 1938, Two-Gun Man From Harlem is the first film in the Bob Blake trilogy of musical Westerns and tells the story of a man wrongly accused of murder who flees to Harlem and adopts the identity of a dead gangster. He then returns out West in disguise to find the real killer. This three-sheet poster for the 1942 rerelease combines Western cowboy motifs with a choking scene of a kind that also appears in posters for crime films. The term “two-gun man” refers to a gunslinger of the Old West who carried two pistols, one on each side of his body.