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Overview

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Director:
Richard Thorpe
Writers:
Edgar Rice Burroughs (characters)
Cyril Hume (screenplay)
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Release Date:
16 June 1939 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Adventure more
Tagline:
Super Story of a Super Man ! The Titan of all Tarzans . . . Giant of all jungle thrills . . . worth the years it took to make !
Plot:
Tarzan's jungle home, and his family, Jane and Boy, are threatened by men greedy for gold. full summary | add synopsis
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User Comments:
One Of The Better Tarzans more

Cast

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Johnny Weissmuller ... Tarzan

Maureen O'Sullivan ... Jane Parker
Johnny Sheffield ... Boy (as John Sheffield)
Ian Hunter ... Mr. Austin Lancing
Henry Stephenson ... Sir Thomas Lancing
Frieda Inescort ... Mrs. Lancing

Henry Wilcoxon ... Mr. 'Sandee' Sande
Laraine Day ... Mrs. Richard Lancing
Morton Lowry ... Mr. Richard Lancing
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Tarzan in Exile (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
82 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White (Sepiatone)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Australia:G | Finland:S | USA:Approved (PCA #5299) | Norway:7 (1959)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
In the original script Jane was to have died (Maureen O'Sullivan wanted out of the Tarzan series). Fan protest forced a last-minute rewrite in which Jane recovers from her near-fatal wound, admitting she had been wrong to disobey Tarzan. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Mr. Richard Lancing: Wildebeest again.
Mrs. Richard Lancing: I think we've seen about a million today.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Tarzan: Silver Screen King of the Jungle (2004) (V) more

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9 out of 12 people found the following comment useful:-
One Of The Better Tarzans, 15 December 2006
8/10
Author: ccthemovieman-1 from Lockport, NY, United States

This was another interesting, fast-moving Tarzan film with plenty of action and even a little more humor than normal.

The action scenes are hokey (shots of wild animals on a screen in back of the live actors) and even the background scenery is obviously painted but, hey, it's an old film. That I can put up with, but not the vast amount of "darlings" uttered by "Jane" (Maureen O'Sullivan). That gets really annoying

However, the rest of the film is very entertaining, very good and even very clever at times. The story is about Tarzan and Jane acquired "boy" (Johnny Sheffield) when the latter was five years old.

Overall: entertaining and one of the better Johnny Weissmuller-Tarzan entries.

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