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Centre, the 1948 local theater herald advertising the films to be shown at a theater in Trenton, New Jersey for the week from June 20th to June 26th. The films include: Wyoming, the 1947 Joseph Kane cowboy western ("Thrilling WYOMING is a great outdoor drama!"; "Rough... Roarin'... Romantic!") starring William 'Wild Bill' Elliott, Vera Ralston, John Carroll, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Albert Dekker, Virginia Grey, and Maria Ouspenskaya (billed as "Mme. Maria Ouspenskaya") AND Two Blondes and A Redhead, the 1947 Arthur Dreifuss musical comedy ("Chorines make society jump with jive!"; "Inside the jive hive of the swank set!") starring Jean Porter, Jimmy Lloyd, June Preisser, Judy Clark, and Tony Pastor and His Orchestra ANDThe New Adventures of Tarzan, the 1935 Edward A. Kull & Wilbur McGaugh jungle adventure serial ("Actually FILMED IN THE WIERD [sic] WILDS of Guatemala"; "Filmed in Guatemala by The Ashton-Dearholt Expedition"; "A Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprise"; "The greatest Tarzan of all time!"; "Edgar Rice Burrough's thrilling new picture"; based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs) starring Bruce Bennett (billed as "Herman Brix - World famous athlete and Olympic Games champion"), Ula Holt, Frank Baker, Lewis Sargent, Ashton Dearholt (billed as "Don Costello"), Jiggs the chimpanzee, "and a Tremendous Supporting Cast". Note that the stories BEHIND the making of this movie are far more interesting than the movie itself. It all started in 1929, when a man named Ashton Dearholt became friends with Edgar Rice Burroughs. He was an adventurer and a wannabe in the movie business, and he kept trying to get Burroughs to let him make a Tarzan movie. Burroughs resisted, and in 1932, he signed a deal with MGM for a major Tarzan movie, and that seemed to end Dearholt's chance of making a deal, but in 1934, Dearholt found a beautiful young blonde that he left his wife for, and Dearholt's wife found consolation in the arms of Burroughs, who married her, and took custody of Dearholt's two children! One might think that would have put a crimp in the Burroughs/Dearholt relationship, but they remained good friends, and perhaps out of guilt, Burroughs signed a deal for Dearholt to make a Tarzan movie. Burroughs' sole involvement in the movie was putting up money and selling the rights, and Dearholt went to Guatemala (on the "Ashton-Dearholt Expedition"!), but the movie had all sorts of problems (Dearholt himself played the villain, and his new young girlfriend played the lead actress), and after it was partly completed, they quit filming and left Guatemala. They returned to the U.S. and managed to create a completed film from the footage they had shot, although it was far different from the original script. The movie did surprisingly well at first, but then MGM threatened theaters that showed the movie, and it got terrible U.S. distribution, although it did well overseas. Ultimately, none of the actors or crew were paid, and Dearholt never made another movie. But he remained good friends with Burroughs until his sudden death in 1942! Note that there was also a feature version of this serial, which was unlike normal feature versions! The serial had a 65 minute first episode (to try to "hook" viewers in), which ended in a cliffhanger, which was quickly resolved in chapter 2. So they simply took all of chapter 1, the beginning of chapter 2, and 45 seconds of new footage, and made that that "feature version" (which was released in two parts in some countries). In 1938, trying to milk more money out of this, the entire rest of the serial (the rest of chapter 2, and the other chapters) was condensed down into a second feature version, given the title of "Tarzan and the Green Goddess" (so that people who had seen the original serial would be misled into thinking they were seeing a newly filmed movie)! AND The White Gorilla, the 1945 Harry L. Fraser and Jack Nelson Africa wild ape jungle fantasy adventure thriller ("See Savage Tiger Men Tamed by a Woman!"; "See Konga, the White Gorilla, an outcast since BIRTH, and Nbonga, the Black Gorilla, in a battle for jungle supremacy!"; "The unconscious form of a girl puzzled him!"; "MYSTERY and ROMANCE! DANGEROUS ADVENTURE!"; "The greatest wild animal picture ever made!"; "Terrific Drama of Jungle Adventure") starring Ray 'Crash' Corrigan (in the title role as Konga, the White Gorilla, and also as the male lead AND as the narrator!), Lorraine Miller, George J. Lewis, Frank Merrill, Francis Ford, "and an all star cast". Note that this was a VERY cheesy movie! The makers of it started with footage from a 1927 silent serial, "Perils of the Jungle", and then made it into a sort of "documentary" (there was a story about the white gorilla fighting the king of the black gorillas!), with a narrator describing the action (because it was, after all, taken from a silent movie!). Apparently, the movie was shown in many small towns across the country, and the lurid advertising (with a scantily clad girl in the arms of a white gorilla), apparently drew in large crowds! If anyone has seen this movie and can tell us more about it, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Also note that Crash Corrigan made a REALLY wise investment in the 1930s, when he bought a "gorilla suit". In many of the movies in the 1940s where there is a fake gorilla, it is played by Crash Corrigan, no doubt because he could supply the suit! AND If Winter Comes, the 1948 Victor Saville romantic love triangle melodrama ("Three Women in His Life... Was he a Love Thief?"; "A.S.M. Hutchinson's beloved classic of English country life becomes a screen masterpiece!"; "Based on the novel by A.S.M. Hutchinson") starring Walter Pidgeon, Deborah Kerr, Angela Lansbury, Janet Leigh (in only her second credited role!), Binnie Barnes, and Dame May Whitty AND The Main Street Kid, the 1948 R.G. Springsteen fortune teller telepathy fantasy comedy ("Based on a radio play by Caryl Coleman") starring Al Pearce, Janet Martin, Alan Mowbray, Adele Mara, and Arlene Harris
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