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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569835177
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Running Time: 433 minutes
Sales Rank: 16001
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1946-01
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Beasts roar danger abounds and Johnny Weissmuller swoops into the last 6 of his 12 adventures as film's definitive Tarzan. The vine swinger provides World War II heroics in Tarzan Triumphs and Tarzan's Desert Mystery. Next he welcomes Jane (Brenda Joyce) home and champions a secluded female tribe in Tarzan and the Amazons. A deadly cult proves no match for the jungle lord in Tarzan and the Leopard Woman. And the Ape Man calls in elephants to deal with poachers in Tarzan and the Huntress and rescues a pearl-diving community in Tarzan and the Mermaids. What came next? Weissmuller would return to the wilds as Jungle Jim Johnny Sheffield (Boy) became Bomba the Jungle Boy Joyce played Jane again in Tarzan's Magic Fountain and Cheetah became the world's oldest chimp celebrating birthday 74 in 2006. Ungawa!Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC UPC: 012569835177 Manufacturer No: 83517
Amazon.com:
The movies in this second collection of Tarzan adventures pass the Samuel L. Jackson Snakes on a Plane title test. Either you want to own a film called Tarzan and the Leopard Woman or you don't. And if you're a fan of the original Tarzan movies, then no doubt you must. These are the last six Tarzan films to star Johnny Weissmuller in the iconic role that spawned a thousand hollers (so ingrained is Carol Burnett's imitation of his signature shout-out that Weissmuller's own performance seems lacking!). Produced for RKO, they are low-budget affairs, but really, who watches Tarzan movies for the production values? The more fake the backdrops and the more obvious the mismatched stock animal footage the better! Tarzan Triumphs (1943) is the best of the bunch. World conflict rears its ugly head in the jungle as Nazis invade a hidden city for its precious oil and tin. Almost worth the price of this set alone is the climactic scene in which Tarzan pursues an evil German through the jungle, tauntingly calling out 'Nazi,' from behind rocks and trees. There's more wartime intrigue in Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943), which somehow combines a stranded female USO magician (Nancy Kelly), Arab sheiks, more Nazis, and, most memorably, a giant spider and a man-eating plant. Tarzan and the Amazons (1945) and 1947's Tarzan and the Huntress (with a great climactic elephant stampede) offer more traditional jungle villains, exploitative explorers, and unscrupulous animal collectors, respectively. Exotic cults figure in Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946) and Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948), which was Weissmuller's vine-swinging swan song.
Maureen O'Sullivan has left the jungle, but Brenda Joyce makes for a very fetching Jane. Johnny Sheffield matures before our eyes as Boy. And Weissmuller still manages to avoid loincloth malfunctions as he swings through the trees and tangles with animal and human adversaries. He is both a role model ('Never kill for fun, only for food,' he tells Boy at one point) and something of a jungle chauvinist ('Jungle much more peaceful before woman come,' he jokes with Jane). But the breakout star of these films is Cheetah, who effortlessly steals every scene he's in, whether covering his eyes when Tarzan and Jane kiss or parachuting out of an airplane. His finest moment comes at the end of Tarzan Triumphs, when his simian squeals broadcast over a shortwave radio are mistaken by German officers for the voice of 'the Fuehrer' It's a Hollywood cliché, but truly, they don't make 'em like this anymore! --Donald Liebenson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A lot of fun...
This RKO series was even more fun than the original Metro offerings. It looked like Johnny Weissmuller was actually having fun. He seemed to be more at home in his loin cloth, albeit a little wider in girth, but really having a good time with the character. Brenda Joyce does a good job as Jane and Johnny Sheffield plays a wonderful foil for the antics of Cheeta.
Now let's hope that they will release the Lex Barker and Jock Mahoney Tarzan movies.
Rating: - The Classic Tarzan
When I was a kid we'd spend 10¢ every Saturday to go see a Western -- or better yet a Weissmuller Tarzan movie. An Olympic champion swimmer, Johnny was no actor, so they invented the "Me Tarzan. You Jane." routine, and that was the perfect way to revive Edgar Rice Burroughs's legend. Note: Cheetah was played by the same chimpanzee until he was ab. 40, then retired to a nice house trailer with good food, beer, and cigars. He lived 20 years more, richly rewarded for being the best actor in the movie ... Read More
Rating: - New Adventures, Same Gold Medal Performances
When it comes to clearing the path for major Olympic athletes to strike gold in pop culture, Johnny Weissmuller is the leader.
Weissmuller earned 52 U.S. national swimming titles, while setting an incredible 67 world records and winning a total of five gold medals - and one bronze - in The Games of 1924 and 1928. He became the sixth cinematic Tarzan and starred in a dozen films.
The six films in the second volume of the boxed-set retrospectives are Weissmuller's RKO performances ... Read More
Rating:  - The further adventures of Tarzan and friends
Although there have been plenty of other versions of the character, probably the classic movie version of Tarzan is Johnny Weismuller's portrayal in a dozen movies in the 1930s and `40s. The first six of these films were made by MGM (and are in a different set); RKO took over the franchise then and made the final six.
If you watch all twelve films, you can easily see differences between the two sets. Most notably, the MGM films had Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane. In the first two RKO films, Jane ... Read More
Rating: - The "real" though not authentic Tarzan
For folks my age (I'm 68), the only "real" Tarzan is Weismuller. Of course, he bears no resemblance to the Burrough's character. But he's the one I saw as a youngster. All these movies are essentially alike, but they are great nostalgia and I continue to enjoy them. Most people who buy this know what they are getting; those who don't may be disappointed.
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