This is one of several posters advertising the movie Fazil (1928), a typical Hollywood romantic drama of the late silent era. The poster promises “Desire under the Palms and along Parisian Boulevards,” an appeal to the audience’s desire to be removed from their average American lives in the 1920s to a world of sex and spectacle. Hollywood movies like Fazil and the promotional materials attached to them, like this poster, presented a level of both popular entertainment and moral scandal unlike any previously experienced by American audiences.