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Tundra, the 1936 Norman Dawn Alaska Yukon survival-in-the-wild adventure thriller ("A saga of the Alaskan Wilderness"; about a doctor who is a pilot in Alaska, who travels to remote areas to help people, and he flies to a remote village to help a sick child, but his plane is forced down due to the freezing weather, and he must make his way back hundreds of miles; he finds a pair of brown bear cubs separated from their mother, and he names them Tom and Jerry, and together they manage to reach civilization, but along the way, he is so starved for food that he considers killing one of the cubs, but refuses to do so!) starring Alfred Delcambre (billed as "Del Cambre"), Merrill McCormick, Jack Santos, Earl Dwire, and Frazer Acosta. Note that this movie was produced by the "Burroughs Tarzan Pictures Inc. headed by Dearholt, Stout, & Cohen". What is the connection of this movie to Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan's creator? It all started in 1929, when an actor named Ashton Dearholt (who had made 60 movies between 1916 and 1927) became friends with Edgar Rice Burroughs. He was an adventurer who starred in many minor movies, but he wanted to become a producer 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 in 1936, Burroughs produced this movie. That was not the end of their relationship! Perhaps out of guilt, in 1938, 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!
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Important Added Info: Note that we have never auctioned this pressbook before! It is unlike the vast majority of pressbooks of this time, in that all the pages are on a high quality paper stock, and it more closely resembles a program book (but it is definitely a pressbook, and it pictures many posters and much more!). Note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook (if the back cover is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster page), and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners received pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut!

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