Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Posing
as a film crew, a team of illegal hunters enters the animal sanctuary
of the Sukulu tribe. Their plan: drive the elephants, rhinos and lions
out of the sacred land and slaughter them for their hides. When we
first meet the Ape-Man in Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle, he’s swimming in the
river – a fitting introduction for Gordon Scott, the muscular new
Tarzan who was discovered while working as a lifeguard at a Las Vegas
resort. Zippy, a favorite on numerous ’50s TV shows, portrays Cheetah.
And the sense of jungle love you may detect between Scott and co-star
Vera Miles is real. They became an off-screen Mr. and Mrs.
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
Mayday! Mayday! An airplane flying five high-society travelers to Cairo
has flown into an enormous flock of birds and gone down somewhere in
the African jungle. Fortunately, all five survive. But now they’re in
dire need of food, protection and someone to lead them to safety. They
need Tarzan. The second of the Tarzan movies starring powerfully built,
6’ 3” Gordon Scott is a first in the entire film series that began
nearly 40 years before – the first in color. It also features striking,
filmed-in-Africa cinematography.
Tarzan's Fight For Life
Knowing he cannot heal his tribe’s ailing boy chief, a witch doctor
steals from a jungle medical center…and mistakenly grabs a bottle of
poison. The same tribal medicine man, resentful of Tarzan, hypnotizes
an underling and sends him on a mission: kill Jane. It’s Tarzan’s turn
for peril when he’s captured by the witch doctor’s minions: they need
the heart of a lion for a tribal ceremony, but wouldn’t the heart of
the Lord of the Apes be even better? Gordon Scott stars in this
filmed-in-color adventure that includes the same Jane (Eve Brent) and
Boy (Rickie Sorensen) from Tarzan and the Trappers. Woody Strode
(Spartacus) plays the witch doctor’s henchman.
Tarzan and the Trappers
Trappers intrude into the Ape-Man’s domain, poaching for profit and
capturing Cheta and Boy. Other interlopers seek to plunder the riches
of the lost city of Zarbo, and if that means ensnaring Tarzan in a net
– so be it! Edgar Rice Burroughs’ vine-swinging Lord of the Apes
(Gordon Scott) is busy in Tarzan and the Trappers and for good reason:
the film is an edited version of three episodes intended for a TV
series. The series never came to fruition, but fortunately for fans of
Tarzan, this event-packed film did, complete with a Jane (Eve Brent)
and a turn by Sherman “Scatman” Crothers as Tarzan’s friend Tyana.
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
The mighty Lord of the Apes (Gordon Scott) is determined to find the
diamond hunters (including Anthony Quayle and Sean Connery) who brought
terror and death to a peaceful village. But as much as Tarzan is a
tracker and avenger, he’s also a protector. An irresponsible gadfly
from the so-called civilized world intrudes on his quest and Tarzan
knows he cannot leave her to fend for herself. Tarzan’s Greatest
Adventure is widely applauded as one of the best and most grownup
Tarzan films. It’s “a superior action yarn shot on location in Africa,
more adult than most of its predecessors. Tarzan has a much expanded
vocabulary” (Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide).
Tarzan the Magnificent
Through harsh jungle terrain, Tarzan escorts a notorious killer,
intending to turn him over to authorities at Kairobi. A motley array of
stranded travelers go with him. Meanwhile, the killer’s vengeful kin
stalks the group, waiting for the right time to attack. Gordon Scott,
in his sixth and final grab of the vine, is indeed magnificent in this
dynamic color movie that maintains the mature approach and large-scale
production of Scott’s prior Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure. Highlights
include the powerful climactic brawl that in a sense is Tarzan vs.
Tarzan, because squaring off against Scott is the actor who would succeed him as Lord of the Apes - Jack Mahoney.