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Auction History Result 5m348 DANGER ISLAND herald 1931 Kenneth Harlan with rifle protecting Lucille Browne, serial! Date Sold 4/8/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Herald (measures 7" x 14" [18 x 36 cm]; 2 pages) (Learn More) Danger Island, the 1931 Ray Taylor Africa action adventure thriller serial ("12 chapters of thrilling adventures - sea, sky, jungle!"; "Spine-tingling, hair-raising, daredevil exploits on a dangerous expedition to a wild volcanic island off the coast of Africa!") starring Kenneth Harlan, Lucille Browne, Walter Miller, Beulah Hutton, Tom Ricketts, William Thorne, Andy Devine, and Jack Leonard (as the man in the gorilla suit). Note that Jack Leonard was one of the first men to play gorillas in movies. He was an extra in Tarzan the Ape Man, and the director did not like the way the men in ape suits were performing, and Jack Leonard said he could do better, and he was given the part! He and his wife made his gorilla suit and he studied real life gorillas to see how they moved and the sounds they made. He appeared in a dozen movies between 1932 and 1940, nine times of them as an ape! We don't know what happened to him after that (perhaps he passed away). If anyone knows more about Jack Leonard, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Also note that Ray 'Crash' Corrigan and Charles Gemora were two actors who played lots of gorillas in movies in the 1930s and 1940s. Emil Van Horn and Jack Leonard each played around a dozen gorillas, and interestingly, that was all they did (no doubt all four of them owned a gorilla suit!). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this item is from the first release of this serial, and is not from a re-release! This serial was made during the time when Universal was using Adventure Pictures as the production company for its serials. There are many such Universal/Adventure Pictures serials from 1925 to 1932. A collector tells us that Adventure Pictures was a wholly owned subsidiary that Universal used to distance themselves from the increasingly low-brow serials, and their desire to be viewed as a more high-end producer of features. Also note that this U.S. herald was used in another country, which is why it has information about a non-U.S. theater printed on the back cover in another language. Condition: fair to good. Learn More about condition grades 
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