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Auction History Result f018 CALL OF THE SAVAGE linen canvas banner movie poster '35 fantastic! Date Sold 4/3/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Movie Canvas Banner (measures 36" x 118") (Learn More) Call of the Savage, the 1935 Lew Landers (billed as "Louis Friedlander") Africa jungle adventure thriller serial ("12 Chapters of Daring Adventures"; "From Otis Adelbert Kline's Argosy Magazine Story 'Jan of the Jungle'"; "The Amazing Jungle Thriller!"; about two doctors in Africa trying to find a cure for polio, and one wants to help the world and the other wants the $500,000 prize offered to whoever finds the cure) starring Noah Beery Jr. (billed as "Noah Beery Jr. of 'Tailspin Tommy'"), Dorothy Short, Walter Miller, Harry Woods, John Davidson, Bryant Washburn, William Desmond, Fred MacKaye, Russ Powell, 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 movie paper of ANY kind from this obscure Universal serial is extremely scarce (we have never ever sold even one movie paper item of any kind from it over the past 17 years!). Considering that we have had movie paper items of all sorts from most of the sound serials (even the most rare ones), this tells me that, for unknown reasons, movie paper from this movie is impossible to find! And now that we have had our first poster from this movie, what a wonderful image! Look over this canvas banner, and it has fantastic jungle imagery. We have sold around a dozen of these canvas banners from various 1920s and 1930s movies over the years (the canvas banners themselves are extremely rare!), and this one has probably the best imagery of any of them we have ever seen! Condition: good to very good. As with almost all of the canvas banners that survive, there were creases, smudges, and scuffs throughout. The banners were printed on a canvas material that does not age well, and most of these banners were stored folded, and many of the surviving banners have deteriorated along the foldlines. Some banners have significant areas of image loss (often along the foldlines), but this banner fortunately had very little actual image loss, just lots of smudges, stains, and creases along the folds. A really talented restorer linenbacked it extremely well (removing the metal grommets from the corners before linenbacking), and then did light restoration throughout. The result is a poster that looks fantastic, but which does not in any way have a "heavily restored" look, as would have been the case if the restorer attempted to make the poster "look perfect". The poster HAS had expert restoration throughout, but it is done in a very subtle way, and I would think any collector would be proud to display this great poster on their wall! Learn More about condition grades 
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