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Tarzan and the Trappers (1958) -- Tarzan deals with the villainous Schroeder, who is illegally collecting animals for zoos, only to be menaced by Schroeder's hunter brother Sikes, out for revenge, who teams up with greedy trader Lapin in a hunt for human game...
Tarzan and the Trappers (1958) -- Tarzan deals with the villainous Schroeder, who is illegally collecting animals for zoos, only to be menaced by Schroeder's hunter brother Sikes, out for revenge, who teams up with greedy trader Lapin in a hunt for human game...

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Edgar Rice Burroughs (characters)
Frederick Schlick (written by) ...
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Tarzan deals with the villainous Schroeder, who is illegally collecting animals for zoos, only to be menaced by Schroeder's hunter brother Sikes... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Gordon Scott ... Tarzan

Eve Brent ... Jane
Rickie Sorensen ... Boy
Leslie Bradley ... Schroeder (as Lesley Bradley)
Maurice Marsac ... Rene
Bruce Lester
Naaman Brown ... Tribesman
Paul Thompson ... Tribesman
Carl Christian
Sol Gorss ... Sikes (as Saul Gorse)
William Keene ... Lapin the Trader
Scatman Crothers ... Tyana (as Sherman Crothers)
Madame Sul-Te-Wan ... Witch Woman
Paul Stader
Don Blackman ... Tribesman
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70 min
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Originally intended as a TV series; three episodes were re-edited into a movie. more
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Followed by Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959) more

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Fair Tarzan Feature, 6 March 2006
Author: Snow Leopard from Ohio

This Tarzan feature from the Gordon Scott series has just enough to make it watchable if you like the series in general. Scott definitely looks like Tarzan, and he has enough of a screen presence to be believable, but his wooden acting style takes the energy out of some of the scenes. The story has a few good moments, but at other times the characters and situations are just too unimaginative not to be noticeable.

The story does have a fair amount of action, as Tarzan must first battle a greedy but rather foolish trapper, and then face the trapper's more malicious brother plus a treacherous jungle trader. Plenty of outdoor footage and scenes of African animals are worked in with the studio shots, and most of the time this helps to mask the low production values. 'Cheta', in fact, gets some of the best moments of the movie.

So many Tarzan movies had been made before this one that it must have been hard to come up with new ideas. This one does at least have a worthwhile idea behind the plot, but it is otherwise rather uninspired in the way that it tells the story.

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