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Sunday, April 11, 2010
STRANGLER OF MEN - KIDNAPER OF WOMEN!
Print Advertisement for the first film adaptation of the smash hit stage production - March 4th, 1928.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
ROAMS THE AUDIENCE IN THE DARK!
Ladies accompanied by one of those squeeky voiced, pimply punks can expect things to go very badly once the house lights dim.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
BEHIND THE APE BALL
ORIGINALLY POSTED 3-10-2009
I'm home for the morning with a sick little monkey so I thought I would take the opportunity to continue on with more pics from BEHIND THE APE BALL. Once again, horribly lame joke, but an interesting shot of Charles Gemora in a very early suit. It's difficult to nail what film it is from but it likely pre-dates RUE MORGUE(1932).
I'm home for the morning with a sick little monkey so I thought I would take the opportunity to continue on with more pics from BEHIND THE APE BALL. Once again, horribly lame joke, but an interesting shot of Charles Gemora in a very early suit. It's difficult to nail what film it is from but it likely pre-dates RUE MORGUE(1932).
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
THE "KING KONG" GORILLA THAT TERRORIZED A TOWN
ORIGINALLY POSTED 9-29-2008
Fresh out of the mailbag, straight from the Gorilla Men Den, I present this salacious tale of an escaped 500 pound Circus ape rampaging about the countryside pursued by bloodthirsty rednecks. Don't worry there's a moral in there somewhere.
I have been enjoying Taschen's MEN'S ADVENTURE MAGAZINES - the result being my brain has steeped in blood, sweat and breasts for the past week. It's a delight to have this issue of FOR MEN ONLY arrive on my doorstep to further illustrate how bizarre and unabashedly male these publications were.
Enjoy!
Fresh out of the mailbag, straight from the Gorilla Men Den, I present this salacious tale of an escaped 500 pound Circus ape rampaging about the countryside pursued by bloodthirsty rednecks. Don't worry there's a moral in there somewhere.
I have been enjoying Taschen's MEN'S ADVENTURE MAGAZINES - the result being my brain has steeped in blood, sweat and breasts for the past week. It's a delight to have this issue of FOR MEN ONLY arrive on my doorstep to further illustrate how bizarre and unabashedly male these publications were.
Enjoy!
Monday, March 29, 2010
GORILLA! PRACTICAL JOKER INVADES TOWN
ORIGINALLY POSTED 9-20-2008
I bought a 1949 issue of PICTURE SHOW magazine thinking that the article titled GORILLA! would feature the usual sort of Beauty and Beast fare that would be typical of most vintage cheesecake rags. I was certainly surprised to find no half dressed maiden menaced by an ape, but rather a goofy stunt engineered to produce a few silly photos. Although the gorilla suit is not even remotely realistic, if Lloyd did indeed go traipsing through the bushes of small town America, he is damn fortunate he did not get his ass full of buckshot.
Reading the piece I could not help but think of Karloff and Corrigan in 1940's THE APE, a Poverty Row study of one mad doctor's desire to heal humanity by murderously rampaging about town in a gorilla suit harvesting spinal fluid needed for his research. The clip below features Frankenstein vs Ape - once victorious, Boris skins the creature to create the aforementioned suit.
The Martian scare on the radio which Orson Welles gave a gullible listening audience some years ago is still the topic of conversation around the country. However, it fades into insignificance beside the thrills and scares given the citizenry of peaceful Thorton, Indiana, not long ago when rumours of a gorilla on the loose began to circulate throughout the quiet countryside. Some reputably sober citizens reported seeing a beast and even provided minute descriptions. Swimming holes and fishing spots suddenly began to loose customers and the local schools reported a startling decline in truancy and deaths of Grandmas. Then, without warning, as the temperature soared to the 90's, a massive, heavy-coated gorilla plodded down the almost deserted main street of the town. Merchants rushed out with shotguns, farmers left their plows, barber shop customers stopped handicapping, and some of the less hardy souls fainted. What might have happened to the gorilla is anyones guess. He was saved when he pulled off his head, revealed himself as reporter Lloyd Walton, fotog for the Indianapolis Times. His paper just wanted to know how a small town would react to a gorilla in it's midst.
I bought a 1949 issue of PICTURE SHOW magazine thinking that the article titled GORILLA! would feature the usual sort of Beauty and Beast fare that would be typical of most vintage cheesecake rags. I was certainly surprised to find no half dressed maiden menaced by an ape, but rather a goofy stunt engineered to produce a few silly photos. Although the gorilla suit is not even remotely realistic, if Lloyd did indeed go traipsing through the bushes of small town America, he is damn fortunate he did not get his ass full of buckshot.
Reading the piece I could not help but think of Karloff and Corrigan in 1940's THE APE, a Poverty Row study of one mad doctor's desire to heal humanity by murderously rampaging about town in a gorilla suit harvesting spinal fluid needed for his research. The clip below features Frankenstein vs Ape - once victorious, Boris skins the creature to create the aforementioned suit.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
GABY AND THE GORILLA
ORIGINALLY POSTED 9-9-2008
This arrived in the mailbox today - a a smutty little gem from 1968. ADVENTURE magazine is a low end newsprint PLAYBOY with more flesh than Hef typically offered and a good smattering of He-Man fiction. My interests were stirred primarily by the Beauty and Beast pictorial posted here for you viewing pleasure. To avoid any unwanted surprises, the saucy bits are displayed in the extended body of the post.
One further note - the article remarks that the photographer is Bill Rostler. Checking the mighty IMDB, Bill appears to have been involved with a number of adult films in the late 60's in a variety of capacities. Many of these I believe are available from SOMETHING WEIRD VIDEO - the one that immediately caught my eye was MANTIS IN LACE a bizarre LSD fueled tale of a murderous stripper.
I think Bill was a tad more beastly than the gorilla chasing Gaby!
Here's a small taste - the rest of the adult oriented images can be found at Flikr.
Enjoy!
This arrived in the mailbox today - a a smutty little gem from 1968. ADVENTURE magazine is a low end newsprint PLAYBOY with more flesh than Hef typically offered and a good smattering of He-Man fiction. My interests were stirred primarily by the Beauty and Beast pictorial posted here for you viewing pleasure. To avoid any unwanted surprises, the saucy bits are displayed in the extended body of the post.
One further note - the article remarks that the photographer is Bill Rostler. Checking the mighty IMDB, Bill appears to have been involved with a number of adult films in the late 60's in a variety of capacities. Many of these I believe are available from SOMETHING WEIRD VIDEO - the one that immediately caught my eye was MANTIS IN LACE a bizarre LSD fueled tale of a murderous stripper.
I think Bill was a tad more beastly than the gorilla chasing Gaby!
Here's a small taste - the rest of the adult oriented images can be found at Flikr.
Enjoy!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
A KILLER GORILLA
ORIGINALLY POSTED 7-31-2008
Suddenly, and by sheer carelessness, I had stepped on a dead branch of a tree, and broke it. Of course, the breaking of that dry limb made a noise. Immediately I heard a tremendous rush in the jungle, and then saw an intensely black face peering through the leaves. The deep, gray, sunken eyes of the great beast seemed to emit fire when they got sight of me. Then he scattered the jungle with his two hands, raised himself (for he was on [135] all-fours) on his hind legs, gave from that huge chest one of his deep, terrific roars, which shook the whole adjacent forest, and rushed toward me, showing his immense teeth as he opened his mouth.
I had never before seen a gorilla come so quickly to the attack as did this one. He walked in a waddling manner, his two arms extended toward me, his body bent in the same direction, and it seemed to me that at any moment I might see him tumble down on his face. This feeling was caused by his peculiar walk.
I was calm, but it was the calm that precedes death—the feeling that in one minute more I might be a dead man. I am sure not a muscle moved in my face. I was steady, and said to myself, "Paul B. Du Chaillu, you will never go home if you do not kill that creature on the spot, and before he has a chance to get hold of your poor body."
As he approached nearer and nearer, I know that I was cool and determined, but felt that within a few seconds all might be over with me; for, if the diabolical creature once had me in his grasp, he would crush me to death.
Excerpt from LOST IN THE JUNGLE, an account of travels through African Gorilla country published in 1900 by Paul du Chaillu. The book was meant for young readers and followed up two previous tomes of adventuring through the wilds of the Dark Continent. The Baldwin Project is reproducing copyright free Children's books, most pre-dating 1923 for consumption and dissemination.
Suddenly, and by sheer carelessness, I had stepped on a dead branch of a tree, and broke it. Of course, the breaking of that dry limb made a noise. Immediately I heard a tremendous rush in the jungle, and then saw an intensely black face peering through the leaves. The deep, gray, sunken eyes of the great beast seemed to emit fire when they got sight of me. Then he scattered the jungle with his two hands, raised himself (for he was on [135] all-fours) on his hind legs, gave from that huge chest one of his deep, terrific roars, which shook the whole adjacent forest, and rushed toward me, showing his immense teeth as he opened his mouth.
I had never before seen a gorilla come so quickly to the attack as did this one. He walked in a waddling manner, his two arms extended toward me, his body bent in the same direction, and it seemed to me that at any moment I might see him tumble down on his face. This feeling was caused by his peculiar walk.
I was calm, but it was the calm that precedes death—the feeling that in one minute more I might be a dead man. I am sure not a muscle moved in my face. I was steady, and said to myself, "Paul B. Du Chaillu, you will never go home if you do not kill that creature on the spot, and before he has a chance to get hold of your poor body."
As he approached nearer and nearer, I know that I was cool and determined, but felt that within a few seconds all might be over with me; for, if the diabolical creature once had me in his grasp, he would crush me to death.
Excerpt from LOST IN THE JUNGLE, an account of travels through African Gorilla country published in 1900 by Paul du Chaillu. The book was meant for young readers and followed up two previous tomes of adventuring through the wilds of the Dark Continent. The Baldwin Project is reproducing copyright free Children's books, most pre-dating 1923 for consumption and dissemination.
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