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the tarzan collection starring johnny weissmuller, vol. 2 tarzan triumphs, tarzan' s desert mystery, tarzan and the amazons, tarzan and the leopard woman, tarzan and the huntress, tarzan and the mermaids
tarzan and the mermaids starring johnny weissmuller ~ no. 12 rko 1948 ~ 68 minutes
tarzan, the ape man (1932). the production that started the weissmuller / tarzan series .
1948 tarzan and the mermaids (68 minutes - dvd) johnny weissmuller. brenda joyce. tarzan travels to aquatania, a forbidden island land, to free its people from a corrupt high priest. tarzan dives from a perilously high cliff and battles a giant octopus before unmasking aquatania' s pagan god and saving the day .
as if saying
and now something completely different
we come to tarzan and the mermaids, which relocates tarzan to the part of africa just inland from sunny acapulco. rko under howard hughes did quite a few mexican co - productions and this entry was shot on what looks like an expensive location. robert florey takes over for kurt neumann and his touch can be felt in some stylized sequences involving the fearsome living god balu. what it lacks in action - - there are few standard jungle thrills here - - tarzan and the mermaids makes up in novelty .
benji (john laurenz) is the local postman and jane (brenday joyce) and tarzan (johnny weissmuller) are hoping he' ll bring a letter from
boy ,
who' s off in england at school, and he doesn' t notice runaway princess mara (linda christain) fixing her boat, in tarzan and the mermaids, 1948. >
after
tarzan' s new york adventure ,
mgm tired of the series and weissmuller took his loin cloth over to rko, where he made six more ape man adventures including
tarzan triumphs
( 1943) ,
tarzan' s desert mystery
( 1943) ,
tarzan and the amazons
( 1945) ,
tarzan and the leopard woman
( 1946) ,
tarzan and the huntress
( 1947) and
tarzan and the mermaids
( 1948). (overweight, weissmuller left the tarzan series, but not the cinematic jungle. he strolled over to columbia pictures to star as jungle jim in a series of cheapos that lasted until 1955 .) rko went on to produce six more tarzan movies, five starring lex barker and one with gordon scott. none of the rko films has been issued on video .
it was filmed in mexico. interior and underwater tank shots for mermaids were filmed at the churubusco studios in mexico city. exterior scenes were shot at several locations in and around acapulco on mexico' s pacific coast .
boy unknowingly informs the less scrupulous members of the party of the existence of gold in tarzan' s jungle and the adventure begins. the safari, along with jane and boy, are captured by natives and tarzan (with the elephants) must save his family .
up in arms (1944) (as a goldwyn girl) ~ tarzan and the mermaids (1948) ~ show boat (1951) ~ slaves of babylon (1953) ~ the v. i. p. s (1963) ~ the world' s gold (1967 )
tarzan and the mermaids
has everything that has made the tarzans a hardy perennial these many years and a bit more. settings and scenery are spectacular and the thrills include, in addition to the customary jungle action, skin diving and swimming sequences, an underwater battle between johnny weissmuller and an octopus and a generous display of slightly - garbed femme shapeliness... results, especially the underwater shots are alone worth the price of admission. tarzans are invariably good box office and this one promises to outgross its predecessors .
johnny weissmuller (title character) is in fact fishing, this time accidentally catching runaway princess mara (linda christian), whom jane (brenda joyce) is perfectly happy to welcome, benji (john laurenz) with singing commentary, in tarzan and the mermaids, 1948 .
johnny weissmuller (title character) is in fact fishing, this time accidentally catching runaway princess mara (linda christian), whom jane (brenda joyce) is perfectly happy to welcome, benji (john laurenz) with singing commentary, in tarzan and the mermaids, 1948. >
the idyllic life of tarzan and jane is challenged by men on safari who come seeking ivory, and come seeking jane as well .
tarzan' s jungle home, and his family, jane and boy, are threatened by men greedy for gold .
tarzan and jane try to keep a woman from being forced to marry a con artist .
1947 tarzan and the huntress (72 minutes - dvd) johnny weissmuller. brenda joyce. johnny sheffield. animal trappers come to capture animals for the zoos. they want more than they are legally allowed and have king farrod, a friend of tarzan' s, killed to avoid the quota. tarzan gets involved and rescues the animals and makes sure the king' s son, prince suli assumes the throne .
tarzan' s secret treasure (1941). tarzan battles gold hunters who hold jane and boy hostage. o' sullivan reprises her role of jane .
[ note: tarzan films stretch into the silent film era back to 1918. ] many actors have portrayed tarzan, mostly on the big screen, including :
i think everybody remembers this one. tarzan in a suit! with the exception of the scene where tarzan dives off the bridge (and an unnecessarily racist phone gag), i like everything about this movie .
tarzan and jane go to new york to rescue boy after he is kidnapped into a circus .
like any other teenager, robbie spent her high school years in various part - time jobs. she worked at subway, at a surf store and at a burleigh heads restaurant called mermaids, “because my mum’s boyfriend at the time owned it, ” she laughs .
if you' re really into tarzan, there are several other versions available on video. the first screen tarzan, elmo lincoln, can be seen in the silent
tarzan, the mighty .
there' s also
tarzan the fearless
( 1933) starring buster crabbe, and
tarzan and the green goddess
starring herman brix. both films were edited from 12 - chapter serials .
greystoke: the legend of tarzan, lord of the apes ,
released in 1983, may be the closest to match burroughs' conception. it' s available on video, as is the incredibly inept version starring bo derek .
the first tarzan movie, tarzan of the apes (1917) starring elmo lincoln was shot at the atchafalaya river delta near morgan city, louisiana. a tourist attraction at 725 myrtle street now commemorates the spot .
1936 tarzan escapes (95 minutes - video, vcd, dvd) johnny weissmuller. maureen o' sullivan. jane' s cousins hire an unscrupulous guide to help them find tarzan. they want to inform jane of a large inheritance she has received. the guide, on the other hand, wants to capture tarzan and make an exhibit of him. once again the safari is surrounded and captured by hostile natives and, with the help of the elephants, tarzan must rescue them .
weissmuller' s white marble grave can be seen to the left of this “tarzan” stela .
paul sawtell did most of the music for the earlier rko tarzans but howard hughes must have liked this show because none other than dimitri tiomkin provides the stirring score. it sounds in some aspects like a mini - version of the fall of the roman empire and really dresses up the action and ritual scenes. most of the movie plays outdoors but the interior of balu' s lair has nice, atmospheric shadow work. considering that the' jungle adventure' genre was at this time the domain of some of the cheapest filmmaking in hollywood, i don' t see how tarzan and the mermaids could have earned back even a fraction of its cost .
tarzan collection tarzan and the mermaids, etc. dvd: urltoken johnny weissmuller, brenda joyce, george zucco, andrea palma, fernando wagner, edward ashley, john laurenz, gustavo rojo, matthew boulton, linda christian, stephen berne, silvia derbez, kurt neumann, robert florey, joseph noriega, albert depina, carroll young, edgar rice burroughs, hans jacoby, marjorie l. pfaelzer: dvd & blu - ray
this entry is short and sweet, with little time wasted on standard tarzan schtick. tarzan and boy befriend a beautiful desert horse, only to have it seized by otto kruger' s bad guy. smart - talking connie bryce and tarzan never become an item, but her patter makes for some amusing dialogue scenes .
the tarzan character in the person of scott returned to mgm in 1957 for a new well - made series in technicolor. scott starred in four of the films, none of which has been released on video. there is one scott / tarzan
feature
floating around on video. it' s a black - and - white effort called
tarzan and the trappers
and is put together from three episodes of a proposed tarzan tv series that never made it .
watch the film trailer for
the legend of tarzan ,
starring alexander skarsgrd, margot robbie and christoph waltz. photo: warner bros. pictures
zandra, white princess of a lost civilization, comes to tarzan for help when nazis invade the jungle with plans to conquer her people and take their wealth. tarzan, the isolationist, ... see full summary »
this sets up the famous
tarzan - jane
introductory conversation between them which involves lots of pointing, jabbing, and prodding. (their conversation has been notoriously misquoted, and is not
me tarzan. you jane .
)
much of tarzan and the amazons omits tarzan' s direct involvement. he' s sort of a
father knows nothing
type, slamming the door on boy' s curiosity about the scientists and their various' scopes: telescopes, microscopes and binoculars. tarzan is jealous of boy' s contact with the learned outsiders but we know all along that his decision not to help the expedition is wise. the scientists begin in a spirit of curiosity but bad guy ballister soon turns the trip into a treasure raid. tarzan dealt with that problem in every mgm show, and knows that strangers with guns and noble causes are not to be trusted. i vote we put tarzan in charge of our national parks and wildlife preserves .
nazis invade the jungle to loot the mineral treasures of the secret city of palandria. colonel von reichart (stanley ridges) forces the natives to work the mines, and kills the brother of the beautiful zandra (frances gifford). she goes to tarzan for help. tarzan and boy have aided a german who has parachuted off course with the nazis' only radio. cheta keeps swiping the radio' s antenna coil, preventing the invaders from calling for reinforcements. boy and zandra try to convince tarzan to join in the fight, but only when tarzan becomes aware of nazi treachery (and realizes that they' re the same aggressors mentioned in jane' s letters from london) does he commit to the fray .
this was the first tarzan film to make extensive use of singing and dancing. it features a musical score by the brilliant film composer, dimitri tiomkin .
tarzan escapes (1936). a hunter captures tarzan and wants to take him to london as an exhibit. by the time this one was filmed, hollywood' s production code had gotten stiffer and o' sullivan was ordered to coverup .
now tarzan make war !
shouts weissmuller as he lunges forward, knife in hand. we' re told that wartime audiences whooped in approval when their fantasy hero tarzan discarded his isolationist instincts to strike back against the nazi invaders. tarzan triumphs is trim and violent... and gave wartime audiences the exact escapist thrills they craved .
1945 tarzan and the amazons (76 minutes - dvd) johnny weissmuller. brenda joyce. johnny sheffield. jane returns, but she isn' t miss o' sullivan. an archaeological team arrives in search of the lost amazon city of palmeria. tarzan refuses to help them, but they trick boy into helping them and go on anyway. tarzan saves both the city' s relics and boy in the nick of time .
a letter from jane, who is nursing british troops, asks tarzan' s help in obtaining a malaria serum extractable from jungle plants. tarzan and boy set out across the desert looking for the... see full summary »
the rko library is full of restoration surprises, in that plenty of pictures that by rights should be printed to death can be made to look fine, while some minor productions have problems. the first four titles in this set look very good and are obviously from prime elements. tarzan and the huntress and tarzan and the mermaids take a sudden downturn in quality, as if the only materials available were dupes two or three generations removed. one possible explanation is that some or all of these films were redistributed by other companies after the 1958 demise of rko; perhaps the original negatives of those two titles were damaged, or simply lost. parts of huntress are a little contrasty and washed out, and the tracks don' t sound quite as clean. the quality dip is only apparent because the other four titles look so good. savant wasn' t seriously bothered, but hardcore tarzan fans may have a different attitude .
cheetah, the chimpanzee who plays tarzan' s simian sidekick in this and many another tarzan movie, lived to the ripe old age of 79 (the same age as johnny weissmuller was when he died). in addition to his recurring role in tarzan pictures, cheetah also
moonlighted
as kimbbo the chimp in several of monogram' s bomba films .
tarzan thus becomes the protector of the wild. kids must have roared with approval when he and boy and wreak havoc with the safari, like good little terrorists. they swipe the hunters' guns, free the trapped animals and break a few necks here and there. when push comes to shove, an elephant stampede settles the dispute, kicking villains off cliffs and turning a few into jungle pancakes. oh, the fantasy part comes when the usurper gets his just desserts and an appropriate & benign sovereign is returned to the throne. we wonder why tarzan doesn' t just unite all the tribes, secret societies and hidden cities of amazons together into a federation of tarzanian principalities (ftp), and tell the europeans and yankees to go blow their noses .
tarzan' s new york adventure (1942). one of the most enjoyable films of the series. animal trappers take boy to new york with tarzan and jane in hot pursuit. there are many humorous scenes of the ape man trying to cope with life in the big apple .
1946 tarzan and the leopard woman (72 minutes - dvd) johnny weissmuller. brenda joyce. johnny sheffield. trader caravans are being ambushed by an evil leopard cult. their leader is the beautiful, but deadly, priestess lea. her twisted little brother is sent to spy on tarzan and his family... providing the perfect foil for boy. tarzan rescues four teachers, boy, and jane from the cult in a crashing finish .
this is a fantastic adventure film! weissmuller is easily the best known of the movie tarzan' s and does a great job (even if tarzan isn' t portrayed as the intelligent guy he is in the books). what can i say about maureen o' sullivan? she is jane; intelligent, sexy and quite capable of taking care of herself (until she meets tarzan) ...
a group of archaeologists asks tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. he refuses, but boy is tricked into doing the job. the queen of the women asks tarzan to help them .
tarzan the ape man (1932) is the first feature - length talking (sound) version of the tarzan series. the tarzan saga was based upon the original' lord of the jungle' characters created by novelist edgar rice burroughs. the tar - zan character (called various titles through the years, including john clayton, lord bloomstoke (greystoke) ), first appeared in late 1912 in all - story magazine .
1943 tarzan triumphs (78 minutes - dvd) johnny weissmuller. frances gifford. johnny sheffield. tarzan battles the nazis as they try to enslave the hidden city of palandria. jane has returned to london to be with her sick mother, but boy manages to get captured .
now tarzan make war !
declares tarzan before he begins to pick off the germans one by one .
later, a safari arrives looking for the lost plane. the safari, jane and boy manage to get captured by (you guessed it) hostile natives and, after a breathtaking escape by boy, are rescued by tarzan and his elephant friends .
mad love (1935) ~ lost horizon (1937) ~ mr. smith goes to washington (1939) ~ the corsican brothers (1941) ~ the bridge of san luis rey (1944) ~ it' s a wonderful life (1946) (rejected by capra and not heard until the late' 80s) ~ tarzan and the mermaids (1948) (suite 4: 30) ~ high noon (1952 ~ the high and the mighty (1954) ~ giant (1956) ~ the alamo (1960) ~ the guns of navarone (1961) ~ town without pity (1961) ~ 55 days at peking (1963 )
“there is no ‘me tarzan, you jane’ situation, ” laughs robbie. she describes her character as “fiercely independent and incredibly capable. there is actually a line in the film where tarzan says ‘scream for me’ and jane is like, ‘what? like a damsel? ’ and i spit in his face. ”
johnny weissmuller. maureen o' sullivan. now we' re talking! jane tags along with her father and his partner as they safari in search of the mysterious elephant graveyard. once they are deep in the jungle, tarzan
discovers
jane and promptly kidnaps her. they, quickly, fall in love and then the action begins. the safari is captured by a tribe of pygmies and tarzan must rescue them - with the help of his friends, the elephants .
1942 tarzan' s new york adventure (71 minutes - video, vcd, dvd) johnny weissmuller. maureen o' sullivan. johnny sheffield. believing tarzan and jane are dead, boy is kidnapped / taken to new york city, where he is put to work in a circus. tarzan and jane track him down and must fight for his custody in court. that doesn' t go well so tarzan takes it upon himself (with the help of the elephants) to get boy back .
1939 tarzan finds a son (90 minutes - video, vcd, dvd) johnny weissmuller. maureen o' sullivan. johnny sheffield. a small plane crashes in the jungle, its only survivor a baby boy. the baby is rescued by cheetah and taken to tarzan' s home. he and jane raise the child as their own and name him boy .
this film introduced the chimpanzee chetah, and provided the weissmuller yodel yell (produced by mgm' s sound department), although the ape - call originated in a 1929 part - talkie serial (starring frank merrill). it also marked the first of six tarzan movies starring both johnny weissmuller and irish - born actress maureen o' sullivan (between 1932 and 1942). they are universally acknowledged as the most loved and famous of the many tarzan characters. their series of six films included the following :
an expedition seeking to bring jane back to civilization, and tarzan into captivity, gets more than it' s bargained for .
the kids are of course waiting for the big action to commence, and tarzan triumphs has the typical escape scenes (a helpful chimpanzee is a must) followed by a full - scale revolt and battle. tarzan knocks over a storm trooper and gives his machine pistol to a palandrian, shouting
shoot nahzees !
the fact that they are nazis allows a higher degree of sadism than expected, as noted when tarzan cooly tricks the main baddie into falling into a lion pit. agonized screams are provided for the amusement of all .
you’d think with hanging out with tarzan some jungle smarts would rub off on you .
ivory poachers, headed by lyra the she - devil, vargo and fidel, capture a native tribe to carry their loot. tarzan intervenes and is captured. jane is also captured and believed killed, so... see full summary »
, and he also moved the production to mexico giving the film a very latin american feel .
much more interesting is young miscreant kimba' s deceitful trickery in tarzan' s home. all tears and whining, he' s really waiting for the right moment to cut out jane' s heart. jane and tarzan are pretty amusing as they ignore kimba' s repeated sneaky looks and duplicitous actions. young tommy cook also played the young john garfield in humoresque the same year .
that feisty spirit is in evidence as i chat to the 25 - year - old in a cream and peach suite at the beverly hills hotel, where we are meeting to discuss her latest film, the legend of tarzan. all smiles and enthusiasm, robbie bounds over to the sofa, leaps onto the cushions and wraps her arms around her knees .
in her latest project, the legend of tarzan, robbie plays a very different version of jane than the stereotypical “damsel in distress” depiction. engrossing and exciting, the film thankfully avoids tired, sexist hollywood clichés .
tarzan returns to the mgm formula for an episode dealing with cruel animal poachers, and ends up providing an almost literal analogy for the' new' politics of the third world. after all the hot - cha girl - watching to be found in the last two installments, the only female action to be found is cheta repeatedly stealing the purse and compact of the bad lady animal hunter .
the patented tarzan thrills are all here, and chances are that many kids didn' t notice much of a difference in the shows. the signature yell is gone, along with the' jungle rhythm' main title, but those mgm touches were getting old along with the constant vine - swinging and animal battles. the rko series has vines but tarzan doesn' t use them for cross - country jaunts, just for the occasional swoop or two .
johnny weissmuller' s last tarzan film is a pretty mundane adventure with a lot of padded scenes and unneccesary songs. johnny himself had gotten pretty hefty and doesn' t look too convincing as the king of the jungle. brenda joyce is as lovely as ever, sporting her sexy two piece outfit again. newcomer linda christian is also nice to look at. the film doesn' t pick up steam until the climax when tarzan makes a spectacular cliff dive and saves jane and co. from death at the hands of the phony god. strictly of interest as a curio of weissmuller' s last go round as tarzan .
on a beautiful and remote island, the beautiful maiden mara has been promised in marriage to their god. she escapes however and eventually makes her way deep into the jungle. there she is found by tarzan who takes him home to jane and cheetah. boy is away studying in england. mara is afraid her people will come after her and they eventually find her and forcibly return her to her home where their high priest is intent on marrying her to their god. tarzan comes to the rescue .
back in nyaga the commissioner consults with the local pearl expert who unfortunately just happens to be varga. realizing things must be going bad back in aquatania varga and his goons rush back, sneak in and retrieve the balu costume, and through palanth, orders that the intruders be killed. tarzan is able to fight his way passed a large octopus, sneaks up behind varga to rip - off the mask and to give us one of the biggest anti - climactic endings in the franchise’s history. once their god is revealed to be just a man the aquatigan’s turn on palanth, tearing him apart, and then tarzan punches out varga, sending the villain to his deaths on the rocks below .
1943 tarzan' s desert mystery (70 minutes - dvd) johnny weissmuller. nancy kelly. johnny sheffield. jane sends a request for tarzan' s fever medicine to aide allied soldiers who have contracted jungle fever. tarzan and boy journey across a great desert to retrieve the vines needed for the medicine. they get mixed up in a spy plot involving an arab prince, a wild stallion, and a beautiful american performer .
tarzan finds a son (1939). this film introduced johnny sheffield as
boy ,
whom tarzan rescues from a plane wreck and eventually adopts. five years later a search party arrives in the jungle to look for boy with the intention of eliminating him. sheffield remained with the series until the late 1940s, then became bomba the jungle boy for monogram pictures .
1934 tarzan and his mate (93 minutes - video w / extended footage, vcd, dvd) johnny weissmuller. maureen o' sullivan. after barely surviving the first time around, holt decides to return to the elephant graveyard. he and his partner are hoping tarzan will help them, but when he refuses they go it alone .
tarzan finally gets involved when the action is over. the movie doesn' t go soft on the violence. several amazons are shot dead while perforating the retreating raiders with well - aimed arrows. boy is sentenced to die at noon, and learns a lesson in doing what dad says without asking questions. in triumphs tarzan watched the head nazi being torn to bits, with the identical observation the victim had made earlier :
in the jungle, the strong win .
here tarzan comes up against the worst of the gold thieves, and allows them to sink into a quagmire without lifting a finger. by returning a couple of sacred gold objects to palmeria, tarzan somehow squares accounts with the queen, even though her sacred treasure vault has been trashed and crucial icons dinged up. and we don' t even get to see boy receive the whipping he deserves - - he' s single - handedly brought on the deaths of at least a dozen people !
tarzan and his mate (1934). it is considered by many as the best of the weismuller efforts. certainly the production is much smoother than the first entry and the music score is first - rate. this one is best - known for maureen o' sullivan prancing around the jungle in a scanty costume. for voyeurs, the video version includes an underwater nude scene previously censored from the original theatrical release .
an african tribe devoted to the leopard cult is dedicated to preventing civilization from moving further into africa. tarzan fights them when the cult first attacks a caravan and next... see full summary »
they soon find themselves surrounded by hostile natives and must fight for their lives. they don' t do a very good job of it, but tarzan (and the elephants) arrive just in time to save jane .
the' poison' of profit is immediately felt in the tarzan household, where only tarzan and cheta are immune to the temptations of the outsiders. jane rather lamely sees no harm in the project :
the animals will be in nice, clean zoos !
( para .). as for boy, the little jerk steals two lion cubs from their ma and trades them for a & * #% flashlight. the movie makes a mother nature statement worthy of gorgo with one image of the lionness standing in silhouette, staring across the water where her cubs disappeared .
she adds, “it’s like the indiana jones or pirates of the caribbean films, an epic action - adventure, a crazy, beautiful world and the characters are real and raw. ”
amiably goofy
is a good way to describe tarzan and the mermaids, a barely digested omelet of mixed fantasy motifs. the annoyingly infantile benji (not a dog) gives forth with instant ballads, like sir lancelot of i walked with a zombie, only this is africa, not the west indies. george zucco struts his stuff on what appears to be an authentic aztec pyramid instead of an egyptian fake, and there' s not a tana leaf in sight. beautiful young linda christian joins other mexican cast members in replaying a quickie version of bird of paradise minus the volcano. balu is a fairly impressive quasi - aztec deity (and not a singing bear) .
johnny weissmuller' s tenure as a big screen tarzan, first for mgm and then at rko, lasted seventeen years and a dozen feature films and cost him three wives (the second ,
mexican spitfire
lupe velez). when the former olympic gold medal swimmer reported for duty in acapulco to film
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this last weissmuller tarzan movie is unlike all the previous movies, it has a lot of singing done by a guy named benji that is rather corny. it also is filmed in mexico and uses many of the locals as the aquatanians, you will see diving from the cliffs of acapulco and temple ruins used. one thing to watch for is the cliff dive that tarzan does, in real life a stunt double did that and lost his life in the filming. another curious thing is tarzan wears sandals in parts of this movie, sometimes they are on and sometimes missing! there is also a fight with an octopus. you will also notice cheetah is much smaller that earlier monkeys used. for tarzan fans this one is worth a look but if it probably the weakest of the 12 movies that weissmuller did. i think they should have titled this movie tarzan takes a vacation in mexico as that is how it appears .
the prisoners are taken before palanth but before they can be sentenced to death balu strides in, much to palanth’s surprise as varga was off running the nyaga trading post end of the operation and so couldn’t possibly be in the costume. much to palanth’s consternation balu and indicates that the prisoners should all be set free, including mara. palanth learns that it was tarzan posing as the god and confronts the ape man, “ if my people knew anyone posed as balu, they would destroy him. ” tarzan counters with, “if people know balu a man, they destroy you. ” check and mate. it’s great when the series remembers that tarzan is a smart and canny foe and not one to be screwed with. as often is the case in this series just when my faith is restored in the character something monumentally stupid will happen. in this case it’s the idiotic decision for everyone to stay in aquatania for partying and aquatic sporting events. have none of these bozos heard the term “ getting out when the getting’s good. ” neither the villains nor the heroes have any sense of when it’s best to cut and run .
tarzan triumphs might have been called
tarzan versus the swastika
, as it boils down to a grade - school primer on nazi villainy. the paratroops move in and betray the kindness of their hosts by enslaving all of palandria. the leering commander (stanley ridges is always good) offers to allow zandra to be his' companion' but she begs off .
“they needed a girl and he said, ‘come and audition. ’” robbie got the part, went on to appear in a series of unpaid commercials and “one thing led to another” .
johnny weissmuller' s last tarzan film is a pretty mundane adventure with a lot of padded scenes and unneccesary songs. johnny himself had gotten ...
a year later she beat the likes of olivia wilde, amber heard and jessica biel to the role of naomi lapaglia, the wife of leonardo dicaprio’s avaricious banker jordan belfort in the wolf of wall street. rave reviews followed and robbie suddenly found herself in the same league as jennifer lawrence and emma stone .
warners' the tarzan collection starring johnny weissmuller, vol. 2 moves on to tarzan' s rko years, when his waistline expands and his face looks chubby. the six films here represented are usually considered inferior to the earlier mgm efforts, but they have their own charm; they tend to be shorter and introduce always - welcome external elements like rampaging nazis, a prehistoric monster or two, strange lost cities and plenty of va - voom 40s jungle princesses. in fact, the titles of the last four installments feature tropical - type sirens. tarzan trades monosyllabic niceties with these temptresses and even swims with one of them, but his heart remains with jane .
we get our first glimpse of the infamous tarzan treehouse. jane is wearing more clothing this time around but she is still breathtaking .
boy is away at school in england. the high priest is trying to force a young girl to marry an evil pearl trader posing as the god balu. she escapes, is recaptured and is finally rescued by tarzan and jane who reunite her with her chosen fiance .
right - there' s a movie to be reviewed here. aquanetta is only a cog in the works of a plot that looks to be lifted from the story of captain sleeman' s uncovering of the kali cult in india, as portrayed in the stranglers of bombay and the pierce brosnan period adventure film the deceivers. the leopard men prey on caravans, bringing home the booty to their corrupt cult leaders. the killers' little scheme is thwarted by the usual tarzan - boy - cheta combination, with cheta using a knife to cut tarzan' s bonds right during the concluding death ceremony .
at west point, 1857, in the conceit of wally kline and ...
benji (john laurenz) is the local postman and jane (brenday ...
aside from a fun octopus fight this last weissmuller tarzan film was a bit of a disappointment, and a sad note to end his twelve picture run on .
tarzan battles a giant spider that has to be seen to be believed... ... .
in accordance with his wishes, a recording of weissmuller' s famous tarzan cry was played as his coffin was lowered into the ground .
tarzan and the leopard woman begins on an unpromising note, with tarzan and family on a shopping trip in a local arab town... tarzan' s remote escarpment seems to be only a day or so away from the edge of the sahara desert. the british overseers of the territory (it' s assumed that africa rightly belongs to the brits) are spreading their sphere of influence to a more remote principality, and we' re shown an english school with four (gorgeous) young teachers preparing to help the natives become proper english subjects. happily, the episode soon turns into a giddy tale of a feral death - cult run by an honest to - ayesha jungle queen, played by the gorgeous aquanetta. i can see older males pushing kids out of the way to get to the box office for this one !
as it' s if tarzan, jane and boy aren' t incredible enough, this film forces us to believe that tarzan has moved somewhat closer to sea level in this last sequel to the tarzan series of films. a new cast member, benji, the calypso singing mailman has arrived along with the aquatanians, a tribe of south pacific like people who believe in
balu
the god that comes alive whenever possible. what more is there to say? it' s unbelievable from start to finish !
most people view the tarzan johnny weissmuller played as accidental comedic. . lacking personality. . bland. 9 movies as the character in 16 years. . not ...
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the film is also romantic, but with a twist. “tarzan and jane are a team, ” says robbie. “she wants him, but doesn’t need him. jane can take care of herself and is constantly getting out of danger on her own. ”
on their way to greet jane (brenda joyce) on her return from england, tarzan and boy come to the aid of athena (shirley o' hara) and return her to the forbidden, top secret, beware - the - dogs mountaintop city of palmeria. jane' s archaeologist friend sir guy henderson (henry stephenson) finds a gold wristlet that cheta has palmed and his expedition heads for tarzan' s camp to convince him to lead them to palmeria. tarzan has pledged the amazon queen (mme. maria ouspenskaya) to stay mum and refuses, but boy gets it into his head to defy his dad. taken prisoner by the amazons, the explorers talk themselves out of a death sentence but are confined to life imprisonment. when boy asks athena to help them escape, ballister (barton maclane), the rough leader of the group, goes ballistic and loots the amazon' s golden riches .
tarzan the ape man - - as created by edgar rice burroughs - - had been educated at one of the finest universities in the world and spoke perfect english. there was none of that
me tarzan, you jane
stuff. but hollywood never could resist putting its own stamp on a character. so when former olympic swimmer johnny weissmuller was hired by mgm to play tarzan in its 1932 film, the scriptwriters made him into a heroic oaf. much to burrough' s chagrin, the public loved mgm' s version. it was one of the biggest hits of that year. you can see that one and others thanks to mgm / ua .
nancy kelly heads back to civilization with all the jungle medicine jane needs, and tarzan has made a new friend. on the other hand, i' d really like to see a london post - script scene in which connie delivers the goods to jane... jane' s never had the problem of a female competitor (where is that wedding ring, jane - o ?) and these rko pictures would seem to tempt tarzan with plenty of enticing jungle man - bait .
there are no serious complaints though. “look, it’s all part and parcel of the job, and there are downsides to everything, ” she adds .
eventually the aquatigan task force catches up to mara, and after a brief struggle she is captured and taken back to aquatania. tarzan is able to track the abductors all the way back to aquatania, and after a little snooping around has figured out the whole “ false god ” con going on. meanwhile benji returns to the treehouse with the british inspector - general (matthew boulton) and then when tiko shows up they all decide to head to aquatania. so jane, a calypso singer, an inspector, and a love sick aquatigan, all completely unarmed, make their way to aquatania where they are immediately captured .
tarzan and jane befriend mara who then gives jane a large flawless black pearl worth a small fortune, but our heroes do not like to except gifts so they decide it’d be best to have the pearl taken to commissioner (edward ashley) in nyaga, where it could be used to fund the construction of a school or hospital. the person given the job of delivering the pearl to nyaga is benji (john laurenz), a latin american singing postal carrier who had brought a message to jane and tarzan from boy who are told is getting schooled back in england. the calypso singing lothario benji character is one of the big tip - offs that this film was shot mostly in mexico as he and most of the cast are latin american, and the terrain looks nothing like africa .
they forge ahead on their journey even though the uneasy natives must be whipped to proceed. they follow the tracks of an elephant herd to the edge of a wide river. there, after building two rafts, in an exciting scene, they cross the hippo - infested river. the herd of hippos capsizes one of the rafts, causing the deaths of two of the men by crocodiles. as they are threatened by the large animals - which follow them up the other side of the river bank - they hear the strange jungle cry twice more, and the hippos appear to back off and return to the river in obedience to the sound .
the tarzan collection vol. 2 gives edgar rice burroughs and johnny weissmuller fans the rko releases they want, yet is as plain - wrap a presentation that i' ve seen from warners so far. the quick menus simply lead to the features, chapter selections and choice of subtitles, a satisfactory arrangement for those of us that don' t need another clip - show featurette .
the story follows tarzan, who was raised in the african jungle but is now living in victorian london as john clayton (lord greystoke) with his wife, jane. john is sent on a trade mission back into the congo and becomes embroiled in a deadly revenge plot. robbie took the role “because it was very different from the other stuff i’ve done” .
once again, tarzan' s africa seems to be populated with every kind of human except blacks; these generic natives are similar to those shown in fantasies about southeast asia or the pacific isles - - dark, but not of african descent. i wonder what happened to all those bloodthirsty tribes of maniac savages that shot people full of arrows and hacked them to bits back in tarzan and his mate ?
the quintessential adventure film tells the exciting story of a difficult african trek to the fabled elephants' burial grounds, where vast amounts of valuable ivory tusks are thought to be located. traders are exploring and searching for the unexplored burial place beyond the mutia escarpment - a mysterious, wall - like barrier of mountains. there are superstitious beliefs among the natives that the escarpment is sacred and anyone who looks or ventures beyond the escarpment faces death by the
witchmen of the tribe .
while the group is preparing to set up camp, they notice a jungle - yelling, vine - swinging, illiterate (unspeaking and mono - syllabic), loin - clothed, but gentle, childlike, and protective ape man - tarzan (johnny weissmuller). when distracted by savage pygmies, jane is suddenly kidnapped by tarzan - he whisks her away, carrying her back to his tree home among a group of apes. she screams and kicks as he carries her into the treetops. she is terrified of the heights, begging him :
hold on to me .
when one of the giant apes approaches, tarzan clearly doesn' t understand her words as she screams hysterically :
oh, he' s coming at me! oh, don' t let him take me ,
but tarzan protects her. she meets the chimp chetah for the first time - in a gesture of friendliness, he puts his arm on her shoulder. they are both curious about what she is wearing, until they are threatened by a leopard from below. tarzan leaps on the threatening animal and kills it .
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with jane still away, tarzan goes off on a rather clever change - of - pace adventure. this time the babe along for the ride is nancy kelly, future mother of the evil rhoda in the bad seed. the story offers an interesting new locale, an inventive story, and some welcome gruesome thrills. new to the series is associate producer kurt neumann (the fly, kronos), who would direct three subsequent entries .
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interestingly, while her co - star alexander skarsgård (who plays tarzan) is semi - naked for half the film, robbie gets to keep her clothes on .
filmed in mexico (mainly acapulco) with an ambitious music score by dimitri tiomkin, this is less of a jungle adventure than most tarzan films as water and swimming sequences dominate. the spectacular scenery is the film' s main asset as the story is a slow - moving affair in which tarzan helps a native girl (linda christian) from being forced into marriage to a phoney island god. the highlight is a breathtaking sequence of cliff diving, during the shooting of which johnny weissmuller' s double, angel garcia, was killed. this was weissmuller' s 12th and last screen portrayal of tarzan although he was to return to serial heroics as comic - strip character jungle jim soon after .
after tarzan carries her and swings her to another part of the treetops, he grabs her again and she screams repeatedly :
let me go ,
but she cannot escape his powerful grasp. when she is finally released, jane sleeps in tarzan' s tree house / home for the night. he has provided her with a leopard skin to sleep on and made a screen around her with vines. next to her covered home, he stretches out on a large tree bough to sleep. when he awakens the next morning, he grabs her again, and she screams hysterically, but she falls into tarzan' s arms for protection when the giant ape threatens one more time. she thanks him with a simple :
thank you... thank you for protecting me .
a beautiful, young girl becomes caught in tarzan' s net while he is fishing. she is mara, who has fled from the pearl - fishing village of aquatania to escape marriage to palanth, who poses as the living - god, balu. balu' s henchmen recapture mara and return her to balu' s temple on taboo island. tarzan follows in an effort to rescue her .
“we were one of those families whose doors were always open and there was constantly someone walking in and out, ” she says .
a satisfying development would be to have boy prove his mettle by going mano - a - mano with kimba while tarzan takes on the rest of the leopard cult, but the movie doesn' t work out that way. it' s certainly exciting and violent, although we miss not having a scene of the evil lea trying out her wiles on our loin - clothed hero... in the later hercules movies it was always, uh, stimulating to see glamorous dishes like gianna marie canale and sylvia lopez salivate over the musclebound steve reeves. tarzan' s relationship with jane here isn' t all that exciting!
tarzan and the mermaids is a 1948 adventure film based on the tarzan character created by edgar rice burroughs . directed by robert florey , it was the last of twelve tarzan movies to star johnny weissmuller in the title role . it was also the first tarzan film since 1939 not to feature the character boy , adopted son of tarzan and jane . ( boy was described in the film as being away at school , and the character never returned to the series . )
tarzan and the mermaids is a 1948 adventure film based on the tarzan character created by edgar rice burroughs. directed by robert florey, it was the last of twelve tarzan movies to star johnny weissmuller in the title role. it was also the first tarzan film since 1939 not to feature the character boy, adopted son of tarzan and jane. ( boy was described in the film as being away at school, and the character never returned to the series. )
tarzan and the mermaids is a 1948 adventure film based on the tarzan character created by edgar rice burroughs. directed by robert florey, it was the last of twelve tarzan movies to star johnny weissmuller in the title role. it was also the first tarzan film since 1939 not to feature the character boy, adopted son of tarzan and jane. ( boy was described in the film as being away at school, and the character never returned to the series. )