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Tarzan, the Ape Man

USA 1959
produced by
Art Zimbalist for MGM
directed by Joseph M. Newman
starring Denny Miller, Cesare Danova, Joanna Barnes, Robert Douglas, Thomas Yangha, Leon Anderson
screenplay by Robert Hill, based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, music by Shorty Rogers

Tarzan

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Once upon a time, Colonel Parker (Robert Douglas) was a very successful trader in Africa ... but that was long ago, now his company has collapsed, his money has run out to the extent that he had to call his daughter Jane (Joanna Barnes) back to Africa from one of the best private universities in England, and to escape a native uprising and maybe even recoup some of their lost fortune, they see themselves forced to team up with adventurer Holt (Cesare Danova) on his quest into uncharted country in search of the mythological elephant graveyard. On the way there, they almost fall prey to an elephant stampede, and Jane escapes certain death only thanks to the interference of wild jungle man Tarzan (Denny Miller), who's apparently lord of the elephants, and who takes her to his (rather modern) treehouse to get over her shock. At first shock, Jane soon finds herself fascinated by the wild man, even sort of falls for him ... when she's "saved" by her dad and Holt (who has of course long fallen for her). On they go, and then they are attacked by natives, but Tarzan saves them by creating an animal stampede.

On our trio of explorers go to find a lost city - of course inhabitated by a lost tribe that immediately decides to sacrifice them to some God ... Colonel Parker dies, too, before Tarzan can be informed by one of his chimps, and he saves the day by an elephant stampede (see a pattern here?).

One of Tarzan's elephants is fatally wounded in this stampede, and dying, he retreats to the elephants graveyard, with Jane, Holt and Tarzan close behind. Jane and Holt rejoice seeing the millions of Pounds in ivory before them, but Tarzan can't but mourn the death of his friend the elephant ... and when Jane sees this she knows her place is with him, not with Hold and civilisation - and Holt is a good enough sport to let her go.

 

Almost certainly one of the worse Tarzan-movies out there: Made at a time when Sol Lesser (who had made the last more-than-a-dozen Tarzan-flicks) had grown tired of the property and MGM (producer of 1932's Tarzan the Ape Man) saw a chance to make the jungle man their own again - but this lacklustre effort wasn't even worth the little money spent on it. Basically, it was inferior to the movie from 27 years earlier in every aspect (arguably apart from the fact that it was shot in colour, but we'll get to that even): For one, the film was shot on a tight budget, and it shows - especially when scenes of the black and white Tarzan the Ape Man and its sequel Tarzan and his Mate are edited into this movie, giving it a weird and unmotivated back and forth between colour and black and white that's simply not convincing, almost schizophrenic, especially when colour flames are superimposed over black-and-white images. (Another film this film lifts scenes from is 1950's King Solomon's Mines by the way, plus any number of Africa documentaries, supposedly.) On top of that, Tarzan actor Denny Miller simply lacks the charisma the character so badly needs, plus the plot is really dumbed down from the earlier version. On top of that, the jungle sets are often less than convincing, and for a big adventure this was made on a very small scale.

So in all, a disappointment ... though in a so-bad-it's-good way, you will at least find something to enjoy about this.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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