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Auction History Result 5w0053 DANGER ISLAND 3sh 1931 Kenneth Harlan with gun protecting Lucille Browne, ultra rare serial! Date Sold 9/17/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Folded Three-Sheet Poster (3sh; measures 41" x 81" [104 x 206 cm]) (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. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that ANY movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have only previously auctioned a pressbook, a still, and a herald from this movie (and NO other movie paper of any kind) until we received this three-sheet! Also note that this three-sheet was printed in 3 sections designed to overlap. 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. Condition: good to very good. There are some pinholes and tears around the edges, with some tiny paper loss where pins were roughly removed. There was separation on parts of many folds, and someone put tape on the back of those areas. Learn More about condition grades 
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