and had Erle C. Kenton, to replace him. Along with Kenton was his cinematographer Karl Struss who had won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927). Struss spoke positively about his relationship with Kenton, stating he had "a greater command of the English language than anyone I ever worked with." Production Shooting of Island of Lost Souls was set up to start on October 1 with a 28 day production schedule. Some actors were last minute additions to the cast, such as Tetsu Komai as M'ling, the "Dog Man" as the September 30 shooting script stated that the role was as of yet uncast. Laughton, Arlen, Hyams and Hohl went to Catalina Island for one week of location work. Some footage for the film was shot on the SS Catalina which according to Struss, had real fog which was called for in the script. During a scene, one of the extras dressed as a beast man reportedly got too close to the bars leading to a tiger nearly tearing him arm from his socket. No information on what happened to the man is known, but Laughton's wife Elsa Lanchester confirmed this story, recalling that terribly rattled Laughton and others on set. Young stayed on the script after shooting began. Emjou Basshe worked on the screenplay from September 19 throughout the shooting. After productions was complete, The Pittsburgh Press published excerpts of Burke's diary she kept during production. After her first day of shooting, Burke wrote: "I wish I could go to sleep. I feel lonesome." Her second entry noted how excited she was to film, and that Kenton had asked her to slow down her movements as she moved too quickly on set. A later entry recalled that Kenton was very patient with her on set, but that she was "so tired, I hardly could walk." It was announced that Burke was go on a promotional tour for Island of Lost Souls after production, which she responded to in her diary: "I'm going to be scared to death - trip over carpets, fall into the footlights or the bass drum or something. But, of course, it's an honor, and I'm going to do my best." On set, Burke's boyfriend from Chicago, Glen Rardin, began following her to work each day. The continuous visits led to fist fight between him and