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Writers:
Edgar Rice Burroughs (characters)
Carroll Young (screenplay)
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Release Date:
January 1946 (USA) more
Tagline:
An Exotic Beauty Rules The Jungle !
Plot:
An African tribe devoted to the leopard cult is dedicated to preventing civilization from moving further into Africa... more | add synopsis
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Tarzan saves Jane, Boy and "the Zambezi maidens" from freaky leopard-worshiping cult more (10 total)

Cast

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Johnny Weissmuller ... Tarzan
Brenda Joyce ... Jane
Johnny Sheffield ... Boy
Acquanetta ... Lea, the High Priestess
Edgar Barrier ... Dr. Ameer Lazar
Dennis Hoey ... Commissioner
Tommy Cook ... Kimba
Anthony Caruso ... Mongo
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Robert Barron ... Caravaneer (uncredited)
Ted Billings ... Native Passerby (uncredited)
Ray Dolciame ... Leopard Boy (uncredited)
Iris Flores ... Zambesi Maiden (uncredited)
Bobby Frasco ... Leopard Boy (uncredited)
Helen Gerald ... Zambesi Maiden (uncredited)
'King Kong' Kashey ... Tongolo the Terrible (uncredited)
George J. Lewis ... Corporal (uncredited)
Doris Lloyd ... Miss Wetherby, School Superintendent (uncredited)
Louis Mercier ... Snake Charmer (uncredited)
Lillian Molieri ... Zambesi Maiden (uncredited)
Neyle Morrow ... Soldier (uncredited)
Charles Regan ... Leopard Man (uncredited)
Georges Renavent ... Ivory Merchant (uncredited)
John Roth ... Leopard Man (uncredited)
Bobby Samrich ... Leopard Boy (uncredited)
Cy Schindell ... Leopard Man (uncredited)
John Shay ... Soldier (uncredited)
Kay Solinas ... Zambesi Maiden (uncredited)
Robert Strong ... Leopard Man (uncredited)
Ken Terrell ... Leopard Man (uncredited)
Marek Windheim ... Silk Merchant (uncredited)
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Directed by
Kurt Neumann 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Edgar Rice Burroughs  characters
Carroll Young  screenplay
Carroll Young  story

Produced by
Sol Lesser .... producer
Kurt Neumann .... associate producer
 
Original Music by
Paul Sawtell 
 
Cinematography by
Karl Struss 
 
Film Editing by
Robert O. Crandall 
 
Production Design by
Phil Paradise 
 
Art Direction by
Lewis H. Creber  (as Lewis Creber)
 
Makeup Department
Irving Berns .... makeup artist
 
Production Management
Clem Beauchamp .... unit manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Scott R. Beal .... assistant director
 
Sound Department
John R. Carter .... sound technician
 
Stunts
Paul Stader .... stunts (uncredited)
 
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Robert Martien .... wardrober
 
Other crew
Lester Horton .... dance director
Olga Celeste .... leopard trainer (uncredited)
 
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
72 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: Two crocodiles are on the river bank that the raft with the women on it drift toward. After Tarzan goes to save the women, he moves the raft to another shore, except it looks like the same shore, minus the crocodiles, making one wonder where the crocodiles went to. For that matter, they don't even attack the women when they're close enough. more
Movie Connections:
Followed by Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948) more

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Tarzan saves Jane, Boy and "the Zambezi maidens" from freaky leopard-worshiping cult, 14 January 2006
8/10
Author: debillmire from United States

MY favorite of the Johnny Weisemuller Tarzan movies, contains great B-movie over-the-top performances and classic lines.

The Tarzan family's shopping trip to Zambezi is cut short by the arrival of a bloodied,dying man, the only survivor of a caravan apparently attacked by leopards. But the Jungle Man knows something is not quite right. "Man not killed by Leopard" he declares, pointing out that leopards use not just their claws but their teeth to kill. Challenged by skeptics to give an alternative explanation, he responds with the classic line "Something Leopard that isn't Leopard".

That something is this freakish cult of Leopard people,who enjoy dressing up in animal skins, attacking people, and ripping out their hearts to sacrifice to their god. They are led by Lea (Aquanetta) (based loosely on the character of the high priestess "La" in the Tarzan novels) and her lover, Lazar, a proto-environmentalist?- who is obsessed with stamping out civilization - a great "over-the-top performance by Edgar Barrier.("Away with them! Down with them!")

But the character to watch is "Kimba" Lea's brother, deliciously portrayed by Tommy Cook - as a conniving, sadistic little creep, who despises Lazar and harbors a not-so-secret lust for his sister and for Jane, the "lady with golden hair".

Taunted by his friends for his pretentiousness,Kimba boasts "When I come back,I will show you a heart". Kimba ingratiates himself into the Tarzan family, then turns on the unsuspecting Jane and Boy declaring "Now I take back TWO hearts". It stretches credulity when the bumbling Boy temporarily overpowers the clever and calculating Kimba.

Tarzan knows more about the ways of the jungle and its inhabitants than anyone, so of course NO ONE in the movie takes his warnings seriously until another caravan is attacked, and the "Zambezi maidens" (student teachers who have been hired to civilize the natives)are captured, along with the entire Tarzan family, and all are bound and prepared for sacrifice to the leopard god. Following classic adventure movie logic, the leopard folks bind Tarzan to the main support beam of their temple, providing him (with the aid of the ever-helpful Cheetah)not only with the opportunity to escape but to literally bring down the house. In a final moment of dramatic retribution, the dying Kimba finally gets his coveted heart - Lazar's heart.

As a kid, I just loved this movie, and I wish it were available on video or DVD. Does anyone know if it is going to be released?

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