Tarzan and the Huntress (1947)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Kurt Neumann

Writers:

Edgar Rice Burroughs (characters)
Jerry Gruskin (screenplay)
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Release Date:

5 April 1947 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Romance

Tagline:

Adventure Crashes To The Screen . . . Romance, Plus! Action, Plus! . . . Amid the Teeming Jungle!

Plot:

A shortage of zoo animals after World War II brings beautiful animal trainer Tanya, her financial backer and her cruel trail boss to the jungle...

Plot Keywords:

Tarzan | Jungle | King | Lion | Python

Cast

Johnny Weissmuller	...	Tarzan
Brenda Joyce	...	Jane
Johnny Sheffield	...	Boy
Patricia Morison	...	Tanya Rawlins
Barton MacLane	...	Paul Weir (as Barton Maclane)
John Warburton	...	Carl Marley
Charles Trowbridge	...	King Farrod
Ted Hecht	...	Prince Ozira
Wallace Scott	...	'Smitty' Smithers
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Georges Renavent	...	Man Weighing King (uncredited)
Mickey Simpson	...	Monak (uncredited)
Maurice Tauzin	...	Prince Suli (uncredited)

Directed by
Kurt Neumann

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Edgar Rice Burroughs		characters
Jerry Gruskin		screenplay
Jerry Gruskin		story
Rowland Leigh		screenplay
Rowland Leigh		story

Produced by
Sol Lesser	....	producer
Kurt Neumann	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Paul Sawtell

Cinematography by
Archie Stout

Film Editing by
Merrill G. White		(as Merrill White)

Production Design by
Phil Paradise

Art Direction by
McClure Capps

Costume Design by
Harold Clandenning

Makeup Department
Irving Berns	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Clem Beauchamp	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Bert Briskin	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Frank McWhorter	....	sound technician

Stunts
Paul Stader	....	stunts (uncredited)

Editorial Department
John Sheets	....	associate film editor

Other crew
Albert Antonucci	....	trainer: cheetah (uncredited)
Leslie Charteris	....	screenplay constructor (uncredited)
B. Reeves Eason	....	director of elephant stampede (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Sol Lesser Productions

Distributors

• RKO Radio Pictures (1947) (USA) (theatrical)
• Banner Productions (1960) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1950) (West Germany) (theatrical)

Also Known As:

Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and the Huntress (USA) (complete title)

Runtime:

72 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

West Germany:12 (nf) | Austria:6 | Taiwan:GP | Finland:K-8 | Norway:7 | UK:PG | USA:Approved (PCA #12057)

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden - 301 N. Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, California, USA

Company:

Sol Lesser Productions

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Tarzan's knife has the ability to appear and disappear between shots. In one scene, he throws his knife at a hunter on the ground, hitting him in the back. A moment later, he goes to attack another man, and lo and behold, the knife has returned to its sheath. A second later, when the shot changes, the knife is gone again. And, after he defeats the man in the tree and runs off to save everyone else, the knife is back in its sheath again without Tarzan going to retrieve it from the man he threw it at!

Movie Connections:

Followed by Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)

Classic Camp Has "Boy" Morphs into Hunk, Stud Teenager

The "Huntress" is a very standard, but enjoyable low-budget Tarzan adventure via way of R-K-O producer Sol Lessor It is also a "hoot." Sheffield plays "Boy." Except to call him "Boy" in all his teenage masculine glory can be disconcerting or a howl. Weismeuller was easily in his 50s when this was made "Huntress" and in scenes with Sheffield, the now muscular and agile (as only a teenager can be) makes Weismueller look like Gramps.

After this, Sheffield began the "Bomba" series, where about the only attraction was John's handsome looks, good natured aura, maturing bod and barely covering his private parts loin cloth. All first obvious in this programmer.

See it for some innocent fun, a too-old Weismueller and Sheffield. Can anyone figure out what was worn under those loin-cloths. It has driven women and gay men fans of this never duplicated, incredibly successful, escapist series to wonder for 70-years.