While movie fans are often in agreement that TARZAN AND HIS MATE (1935) starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan may be the finest of all screen Tarzan adventures, there is much disagreement as to which films should fill in the second and third-best spots. My choices would be TARZAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE (1959) and TARZAN, THE MAGNIFICENT (1960).
Portions of both were filmed on location Africa adding a realism heretofore unseen in any of the films since THE NEW ADVENTURES OF TARZAN (1936) serial, which was lensed in the Guatemalan jungles. Like the earlier chapter play, Tarzan was allowed to speak without the "Me Tarzan-You Jane" pigeon English that had been a character trait since the Weissmuller films.
Jock Mahoney, who played the villainous "Coy Banton" in TARZAN, THE MAGNIFICENT, would inherit the loincloth for the next ape-man adventure, TARZAN GOES TO INDIA (1962).
Portions of both were filmed on location Africa adding a realism heretofore unseen in any of the films since THE NEW ADVENTURES OF TARZAN (1936) serial, which was lensed in the Guatemalan jungles. Like the earlier chapter play, Tarzan was allowed to speak without the "Me Tarzan-You Jane" pigeon English that had been a character trait since the Weissmuller films.
Jock Mahoney, who played the villainous "Coy Banton" in TARZAN, THE MAGNIFICENT, would inherit the loincloth for the next ape-man adventure, TARZAN GOES TO INDIA (1962).
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