Tarzan Triumphs (1943)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Wilhelm Thiele

Writers:

Edgar Rice Burroughs (characters)
Carroll Young (story)

Release Date:

19 February 1943 (USA)

Genre:

Action | War | Adventure

Plot:

Zandra, white princess of a lost civilization, comes to Tarzan for help when Nazis invade the jungle...

Plot Keywords:

Tarzan | Nazi | Jungle | Torture | Rebellion

Cast

Johnny Weissmuller	...	Tarzan
Johnny Sheffield	...	Boy
Frances Gifford	...	Zandra
Stanley Ridges	...	Colonel Von Reichart
Sig Ruman	...	Sergeant
Philip Van Zandt	...	Captain Bausch
Rex Williams	...	Lt. Reinhardt Schmidt
Pedro de Cordoba	...	Oman

Also Known As:

Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan Triumphs (USA) (complete title)

Runtime:

76 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Norway:7 (1972) | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #8892)

Filming Locations:

Sherwood Forest, California, USA

Company:

Sol Lesser Productions

Trivia:

Jane's absence was explained in a letter saying that she's visiting relatives in England. Maureen O'Sullivan was sick of playing Jane, but her absence probably had more to do with the fact that the franchise had switched from MGM to RKO, and O'Sullivan was a Metro contract player.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Tarzan is fighting the Nazis, he rips the magazine off a machine gun and tosses it to the ground. A moment later, one of the Nazis starts climbing to the top of the building to use the gun, and you can see the magazine still there. Yet when the Nazi arrives at the gun, the magazine is missing again.

Quotes:

Tarzan: Nazi hyena dead now.

Movie Connections:

Edited into Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)

Propaganda at its best (worst?).

I haven't seen this film in over twenty years, but I remember it vividly. I remember laughing all the way through. In its day of course, Tarzan defeating a bunch of bumbling nazi idiots was seen as a proper patriotic display. Now it is a wonderful example of propaganda and laughable in its lack of subtlety. The part that I remember most clearly is where Cheetah (the chimpanzee) gets hold of a Nazi radio and begins to chatter away on it. The Nazis on the receiving end assume it is the fuhrer and do the full Heil Hitler bit. Hilarious. If I could get a copy of this film I would use it in my film classes as an example of its era.