Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959)

This movie has little connection with the 1932 original. It does, however, have lifted footage (tinted to more-or-less match the color), including obvious footage of Weissmuller's ... See full summary »

Director:

Joseph M. Newman

Writers:

Robert Hill (screenplay), Edgar Rice Burroughs (character)

Stars:

Denny Miller, Cesare Danova, Joanna Barnes

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Denny Miller	...	Tarzan
Cesare Danova	...	Harry Holt
Joanna Barnes	...	Jane Parker
Robert Douglas	...	Col. James Parker

Storyline

This movie has little connection with the 1932 original. It does, however, have lifted footage (tinted to more-or-less match the color), including obvious footage of Weissmuller's vine-swinging. Miller is not once called Tarzan in the movie, and his yell is also lifted Weissmuller. The elephants who wreck the pygmy village are lifted/tinted from the original, but the "pygmies" (real in the original) were kids from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles. Costumes are left over from "King Solomon's Mines" so that more stock footage could be lifted. And the crocodile fight is taken from "Tarzan and his Mate"

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Plot Keywords:

sequel | ape man | bare chested male | character name in title

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Taglines:

NEW! TARZAN FINDS FORGOTTEN WORLDS OF ADVENTURE! (original print ad - all caps)

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Genres:

Action | Adventure

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

October 1959 (USA)

Also Known As:

Talttumaton Tarzan

Company Credits

Production Co:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

82 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Follows Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)

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Soundtracks

"Salingo"
(uncredited)
Written by Thomas Yangha

User Reviews

cheesiest tarzan special effects ever

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!

bad bad bad bad bad