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Writers:
Walter Anthony (screenplay)
Edgar Rice Burroughs (character)
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Release Date:
11 August 1933 (USA) more
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Romance! Adventure! Thrills! more
Plot:
Mary Brooks' father, who has been studying ancient tribes, falls into the hands of "the people of Zar... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Buster Crabbe ... Tarzan
Julie Bishop ... Mary Brooks (as Jaqueline Wells)
E. Alyn Warren ... Dr. Brooks, Mary's Father
Edward Woods ... Bob Hall (as Eddie Woods)
Philo McCullough ... Jeff Herbert, Villainous Safari Guide
Matthew Betz ... Nick Moran, Villainous Safari Guide
Frank Lackteen ... Abdul, Aide to the High Priest
Mischa Auer ... Eltar, High Priest of Zar
Carlotta Monti ... Madi, Priestess of Zar
Symona Boniface ... Sara, Arab Woman, Conspiring with Abdul
Darby Jones ... Anga, the Head Bearer

Al Kikume ... Warrior
George DeNormand ... Guard
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Tarzan the Invincible (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
200 min (12 episodes) | USA:61 min (feature) | UK:86 min (feature)
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The surviving 86 minute UK feature version, released by Wardour Films, resolves many of the plot issues left hanging in the considerably shorter 61 minute USA feature version released by Principal Distributing Corporation. more
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Call of Tarzan more

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Well, what happened to the actual serial?, 15 January 2006

This is a feature version of a 12-chapter serial, although some don't seem to know that the serial exists. As was a semi-common practice of the time, some serials were produced as both a feature and also as a serial. The reason was that some theatres would not book serials but had no qualms about booking a feature edited from a serial, and this practice allowed the serial producer to get a booking in a theatre for his condensed feature that they would not have gotten as a 12-episode serial.

This "feature version" consists of the first four chapters of the 12-chapter SERIAL that was titled "Tarzan the Fearless," , which a great many collectors have in its 12-chapter form (that some don't seem to know exists) and, some of the luckier ones, even have all of the different original one-sheets posters issued with each chapter title, and the full eight-card set of different lobby cards issued with each chapter following the showing of the feature version at theatres that did book serials; and most of those theatres that did book serials didn't bother showing this feature version, opting instead to show one chapter a week for 12 weeks.

The chapter titles for the 12 episodes of this serial (from which the "Tarzan the Fearless" feature version was chopped out of) were: 1. The Dive of Death; 2. The Storm God Strikes; 3. Thundering Death; 4. The Pit of Peril; 5. Blood Money; 6. Voodoo Vengeance; 7. Caught by Cannibals; 8. The Creeping Terror; 9. Eyes of Evil; 10. The Death Plunge; 11. Harvest of Hate and 12. Jungle Justice.

Producer Sol Lesser's plan was to make both a feature version and a serial...and he did both.

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