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Forbidden Adventures in Angkor (also released as "Forbidden Adventure: Inhuman Love" and as "Forbidden Adventure", and possibly under other titles as well, including "The Gorilla Woman"), the 1937 L.C. Cook & George M. Merrick Asia native ape exploitation horror pseudo-documentary ("Giant Monsters Enthroned as Love Gods"; "Startling in it's weird action!"; "A strange legend of a strange land!"; "Wild Women! Wild Beasts!"; "Has the Missing Link been found?"; "It's vivid! It's powerful! It's daring!"; "Inhuman Desires! Has the Missing Link been found?"; this was SUPPOSED to be a documentary including footage from a 1914 expedition to Cambodia, but actually, it was entirely fake, and it was filmed in the U.S. with rear projection images of Cambodia, and had topless "natives" and men in gorilla suits, and even the "explorers" had false beards!). We have recently seen claims that the footage was actually mostly taken from earlier jungle movies, but we don't know how accurate that is, and if anyone has specific examples of this. In spite of it being fake, the movie was hugely popular on the exploitation circuit, playing under many different names, and sometimes as part of a double-bill, and often presented as an "educational" movie, although the primary allure of the movie was clearly the "naked native women"! Note that this movie was first made in 1937, but almost surely it played as a "roadshow" movie (playing in late night shows in small towns, and other unusual venues) throughout the rest of the 1930s and the 1940s (as was done with so many other exploitation movies like this one). It is impossible to know exactly when any of the posters that have surfaced from this movie are from, but some of them could date from 1937 and others could date from the later 1930s or the 1940s. We have seen the movie advertised as simply "Angkor" (and the IMDb claims that it was first released under that title), but that seems to be a re-release as well. There are also 1937 posters from a movie called "Gorilla Woman", which seem extremely likely to be from a re-titling of this same movie in the same year, and it seems quite possible that Dwain Esper was involved in either the original version of this movie or one of its subsequent re-release versions. We just learned of a new possible connection to this movie, which is a 1939 German movie called "Dschungel-Geheimnisse", which has "an expedition to the mysterious jungle city Angkor" as a tagline, and certainly, that movie could have used some or all of this movie, made two years earlier. If anyone knows anything more about this movie (and whether the titles listed above are from the same movie or different movies), please contact us and we will post it here.

Important Added Info: Note that, when this movie was first released, the title on the lobby cards were overprinted (with red and silver ink) over whatever was originally under it, and it is impossible to read the original title. One collector suggests that they may have taken lobby cards from an entirely different jungle movie and overprinted them with this title! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has.

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