#Ray Crash Corrigan

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The Monster and the Ape | 1945

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“Undersea Kingdom” (1936)

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This week on Content Abnormal we feature Kolchak: The Night Stalker alumni Hans Conried and John Dehner in the Suspense thriller “Crossing Paris”! 

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Ray "Crash" Corrigan (the name of both the actor and the character he played) in The Undersea Kingdom (1936), a twelve episode movie serial from Republic Pictures set in the underworld Kingdom of Atlantis.

He's about to be smashed into a wall or something while strapped to the Dreadnaught, Atlantis' lone tank. The tank is driven by the villainous Captain Haduk (who you can see peeking out the window), played by a pre-The Wolfman Lon Chaney Jr.

The Undersea Kingdom was Republic's response to the tremendous success that Universal had with its first Flash Gordon serial, released the same year. However, The Undersea Kingdom had the lowest budget of any Republic serial, just shy of $82,000 (although it ran over budget and eventually cost $99,000), whereas the budget for Flash Gordon was $350,000. And boy, you can definitely notice the difference between the two!

Ironically, Corrigan appeared in Flash Gordon in an ape costume as a creature known as an orangopoid. Much of his early and late acting career was spent playing gorillas (or similar creatures) in his own suits.

I imagine Corrigan had to remove his helmet a lot while filming The Undersea Kingdom when going in and out of buildings/rooms. He was 6'2" tall, and that fin on the helmet added close to 2 feet to his height. It probably made stuntwork especially challenging, too.

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Ray “Crash’ Corrigan and Lon Chaney Jr.- UNDERSEA KINGDOM (1936)

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Lon Chaney Jr. and Ray ‘Crash’ Corrigan- UNDERSEA KINGDOM (1936)

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It! The Terror from Beyond Space will be released on Blu-ray on October 24 via Kino Lorber. Said to be an influence on Alien, the 1958 sci-fi horror cult classic is celebrating its 65th anniversary.

Edward L. Cahn (Invasion of the Saucer Men) directs from a script by Jerome Bixby (The Man from Earth). Marshall Thompson, Shirley Patterson, Kim Spalding, Dabbs Greer, and Ray "Crash" Corrigan star.

It! The Terror from Beyond Space has been newly restored in 2K from a 35mm fine grain. Special features are listed below, where you can also see the slipcover.

Special features:

Audio commentary by film historians Tom Weaver, Bob Burns, Larry Blamire, and David Schecter (new)

Audio commentary by film historian Craig Beam (new)

Audio commentary by film historian Gary Gerani (new)

TidbITs: Ephemera from Beyond Space - Featurette by film historian Craig Beam

Theatrical trailer

When his crew is brutally murdered on a Mars expedition, Commander Carruthers (Marshall Thompson) becomes the prime suspect. Taken into custody and facing a court-martial back on Earth, he discovers that the real killer—a grotesque, slithering "It"—has stowed aboard the earthbound ship. But the indestructible creature has already begun a harrowing in-flight rampage, knocking off the members of the crew one by one. Now, as the spaceship heads home toward a panic-stricken Earth, the remaining crew must find some way to stop the unstoppable "It."

Pre-order It! The Terror from Beyond Space.

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Welcome to Silvertown, located at Corriganville (in the Simi Valley, a bit north of Los Angeles) where many a TV an' Movie bad hombre bit the dust,  it's Bank was robbed more times than can be remembered... Even John Ford's US Cavalry rode out of Fort Apache at Corriganville and through movie magic, reappeared in Monument Valley...  In the Saloon you might've rubbed elbows with the great and near great,  Randolph Scott, Gene Autry, John Wayne, The Cisco Kid,  Hopalong Cassidy (drinking Sarsaparilla), Edgar Buchanan, Audie Murphy,  Gene Kelly, Robert Mitchum, Max Baer, Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom, Rin-Tin-Tin, Roy Rogers, Clayton Moore & Jay Silverheels (The Lone Ranger & Tonto),  Captain Midnight, Marshal Matt Dillon, Hoss Cartwright an' all his clan to  Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone or Claude Rains from "The Adventures of Robin Hood",  Richard Boone as Paladin, Steve McQueen the bounty hunter, Nick Adams as Johnny Yuma, or Harvey Lembeck as Eric von Zipper... even Ray (crash) Corrigan hisself...

Today it seems its Bronco Bunny and Kalamity Kitty's turn ta shoot it out... But after emptying Kalamity's Navy Colt an' Bronco's rusty 44 without hittin' anything important, they wrestled around in the dust for a bit, till the Director called time... Then they headed for the Silvertown Hotel for a long soak in the bath an' arguing over who got to use the hair conditioner first... It's all gone now, burned to the ground in the 60s by wildfires, but the memories still linger, on celluloid and video tape...

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IT CAME FROM BEYOND THE STARS... TO PREY ON UNSUSPECTING SPACE CREWS!

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on promotional shots of Ray "Crash" Corrigan and Shirley Patterson in "iT! The Terror from Beyond Space" (1958), directed by Edward L. Cahn for United Artists Pictures.

MONSTER SUIT MONDAY/IMDb FILM FACT: "Inside the "It" costume was actor, stuntman and frequent gorilla performer Ray "Crash" Corrigan. This would be Corrigan's final film, ending a film career of over 25 years."

Source: https://shebloggedbynight.com/2015/it-the-terror-from-beyond-space-1958.

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From director Edward L. Cahn comes IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE (1958)! Marshall Thompson stars in this photo-ALIEN film about a monster from Mars!

This horror sci-fi also stars Shirley Patterson, Kim Spalding, Dabbs Greer and Ann Doran, with Ray "Crash" Corrigan in his last film role in Paul Blaisdell's last original creature design.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 24:53; Discussion 35:47; Ranking 56:00

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The Monster and the Ape | 1945

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Ray "Crash" Corrigan, greatest of the gorilla suit actors.

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Ray “Crash” Corrigan as IT!: The Terror From Beyond Space

Watercolors on Paper, 8.5″ x 11″, 2022

By Josh Ryals

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Chapter posters for Ray “Crash” Corrigan’s “Undersea Kingdom.

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Buster Crabbe and Ray "Crash" Corrigan- NABONGA (1944)

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Kermit Maynard 1897-1971