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October 1959 (USA) moreTagline:
They Challenge the TABOOS of a Forbidden Land ! morePlot:
This movie has little connection with the 1932 original. It does, however, have lifted footage (tinted to more-or-less match the color)... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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cheesiest tarzan special effects ever moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Denny Miller | ... | Tarzan |
| Cesare Danova | ... | Harry Holt |
| Joanna Barnes | ... | Jane Parker |
| Robert Douglas | ... | James Parker |
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Rather than go to the unnecessary trouble and expense of hiring actors nd shooting lots of new footage to make his film, producer Al Zimbalist cast Denny Miller , a UCLA basketball star with no acting experience, as Tarzan....then,larded the film with as much stock jungle footage from the 1950 film "king solomans mines" as he could. And when that ran out, he used footage from the original 1932 classic "tarzan the ape man" starring Johnny Weissmuller.
of course there was the small problem that Zimbalist's film was filmed in color and weissmullers was in black and white...but zimbaslist got around that by having the black and white footage tinted to make it appear as if it had been filmed in Technicolor, like the rest of the movie. but it didn't. it didn't even look like denny miller. in one scene you can actually see johnny weissmullers face clearly as he fights a crocodile.
What little footage zimbalist did bother to flm was awful.in one important action sequence, real footage of an animal trainer dressed as Tarzan wrestling with a live leapard was combined with shots of miller wrestling with a large stuffed animal complete with close ups of its face, plastic fangs, button eyes and all!
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