Summaries

An English colonel's daughter meets the lord of the jungle who makes her his mate.

This movie has little connection with the 1932 original. It does, however, have lifted footage (tinted to more-or-less match the color), including obvious footage of Weissmuller's vine-swinging. Miller is not once called Tarzan in the movie, and his yell is also lifted Weissmuller. The elephants who wreck the pygmy village are lifted/tinted from the original, but the "pygmies" (real in the original) were kids from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles. Costumes are left over from "King Solomon's Mines" so that more stock footage could be lifted. And the crocodile fight is taken from "Tarzan and his Mate"—Ed Stephan <[email protected]>

In search of the legendary Elephant's Graveyard containing a million pounds in ivory, Colonel James Parker, an intrepid British explorer, receives his only daughter, Jane, in his African trading post. As adventurous Jane joins her father and his partner, the great big-game hunter, Harry Holt, on an exploratory expedition across the untamed jungle, apex predators and ferocious pygmy warriors threaten their ambitious mission. But, this is the wild, green realm of an elusive but powerful man-like creature, the mighty lord of the jungle. Is beautiful Jane the perfect mate for Tarzan, the Ape Man?—Nick Riganas

Details

Keywords
  • 1950s
  • character name as title
  • psychotronic film
  • tarzan character
  • jungle adventure
Genres
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Romance
Release date Sep 30, 1959
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) G
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
Production companies Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Box office

Gross US & Canada $1438800
Gross worldwide $3727800

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 22m
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

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