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FORBIDDEN ADVENTURE IN ANGKOR FORBIDDEN ADVENTURE IN ANGKOR 1sh OR search current auctions Auction History Result 3y331 FORBIDDEN ADVENTURE IN ANGKOR 1sh 1937 art of smiling gorilla holding topless native girl! Date Sold 1/30/2018Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Folded One-Sheet Poster (1sh; measures 28 1/4" x 42" [72 x 107 cm]) (Learn More) 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. Artist: LRM Important Added Info: Note that this one-sheet measures 28 1/4" x 42" [72 x 107 cm]. Also note that this item contains some nudity, so we have placed a white bar over those areas for those who are bothered by such images. Of course, the actual item does not have the white bars. Condition: poor to fair. The poster has separation, tears and small paper loss scattered on the folds with a few light stains scattered throughout. There are a few pieces of paper tape on back of the poster. Please see our super-sized image to get a good sense of the condition of this item prior to placing a bid and please do not bid unless you can accept the defects described above, or you are willing to pay to have them properly restored. Learn More about condition grades
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