Rent Tarzan and His Mate/Tarzan Finds a Son (1939)
3.2 of 5 from 16 ratings
2h 58min
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- Synopsis:
- Tarzan And His Mate
Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan legendary lovers of the silver screen, star in this epic story of jungle romance. Tarzan, the handsome, strong, king of the Apes and Jane, the beautiful, sophisticated English girl, prove that social barriers disappear when hearts beat like native drums.
Tarzan Finds A Son
John Sheffield is introduced as ‘Boy’, the infant son of a couple whose plane has crashed in the jungle, in this exciting installation in the popular film series - Actors:
- Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, C. Aubrey Smith, Doris Lloyd, Neil Hamilton, Forrester Harvey, John Buckler, Benita Hume, William Henry, Ian Hunter, Johnny Sheffield, Virginia Grey, Charles Bickford
- Directors:
- W. S. Van Dyke, Cedric Gibbons, Richard Thorpe
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics
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Tarzan and his Mate. - Tarzan and His Mate/Tarzan Finds a Son review by Steve
This is one where Jane's clothes keep falling off! When not swimming naked, Jane was shot in a two piece. In the later sequels, the censors ensured Maureen O'Sullivan wore a dress, after a fuss created by the Catholic League of Decency... She has a wonderful chemistry with her still-slim Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) which is ostentatiously physical.
The attraction today is for its pre-code exotica and the prestigious production values. There are acrobatics, magnificent sets, underwater scenes and a run out for MGMs zoo animals. Tarzan wrestles a mechanical crocodile. Viewed from today, he seems an ecological hero, as he seeks to defy the European ivory trade in his carbon zero, off grid wilderness...
Unfortunately this is no longer the fabulous family entertainment it once seemed: partly because of its antiquity; but mainly because of the racism. Not so much the British hunters treating Africans with such indifference, as that may be realistic. But because the indigenous people are stereotyped so grotesquely, as was usual in 1930s Hollywood.
It is the best of the Weissmuller Tarzan films, with O'Sullivan a most beautiful Jane. Tarzan was never more monosyllabic, a kind of parody of fantasy machismo, but Johnny has a pleasant comic touch and the stars create plenty of screwball sparkle. But for all its various merits, the racism makes the film now a transgressive experience.
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