Tarzan (1943)
by W.S. Van Dyke
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Actor: C. Aubrey Smith, Doris Lloyd, Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil HamiltonDirector: W.S. Van Dyke
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Running Time: 99 minutes
Release Date: 1999-09-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Studio: MGM (Warner)
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Movie Review: Great Adventure FIlm
Summary: 4 Stars
Tarzan the Ape Man is the first film of the most popular strain of the Tarzan series. The story is quite familiar now, so it seems trite and dull. However, this film is strangely entertaining although everyone knows what will happen in the film. Girl (Maureen O'Sullivan) goes along with her father on a trek to find the famed elephant graveyard and stumbles upon a man who lives in the wild like an ape (Johnny Weissmuller). The two are quite attracted to each other.
Johnny Weissmuller is not an incredibly attractive man although he is Olympically trained and very fit. He has incredible chemistry with the baby-faced Maureen O'Sullivan; all of their scenes are sexually charged which makes this film really good. The story is primally sexual but incredibly romantic at the same time.
This film was shot with soft lighting which only accentuates the beauty of the wild. Some footage of real natives was used and real animals were filmed for many of the scenes. This film looks realistic which only draws its audience in more.
You might not expect much from a Tarzan film, but you really should; you might be surprised at how well it captures your imagination.
Summary of Tarzan (1943)
"Me beefcake. You bossy." That kind of sums up the dynamics of 1932's Tarzan, the Ape Man, which stars an incredibly hulking Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan and Maureen O'Sullivan as the gorgeous accidental feminist who finds true love with you-know-who in the jungle. Some of the footage in the first Tarzan talkie is comically dated--scenes of the British adventurers seem superimposed over stock footage of tribesmen and African vistas. But the action is swift and often unexpectedly hiply humorous. When Jane spots Tarzan watching her undress to bathe in the river, she says, "I wish you'd knock before you'd enter my boudoir." And it's hysterical how she wraps every man in the film around her finger. A romantic's trip through 20th-century popular culture would be incomplete without first-hand viewing of Tarzan capturing Jane, then swinging from tree to tree. The smoldering looks the man raised by apes exchanges with the cultured Brit? Animal attraction defined. --Valerie J. NelsonAction & Adventure VHS Video
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