Tarzan Goes to India (1962)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

John Guillermin

Writers:

Robert Hardy Andrews (writer)
Edgar Rice Burroughs (characters)

Release Date:

July 1962 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure

Plot:

Princess Kamara asks Tarzan to come to India. A huge dam is going to be opened in order to form a lake which will service an electric power plant...

Plot Keywords:

Tarzan | India | Sequel | Character Name In Title

Cast

Jock Mahoney	...	Tarzan
Jai	...	Elephant Boy
Leo Gordon	...	Bryce, Head Engineer
Mark Dana	...	O'Hara
Feroz Khan	...	Prince Raghu Kumar
Simi Garewal	...	Princess Kamara (as Simi)
Murad	...	Maharajah
Jagdish Raay	...	Raaj
G. Raghaven	...	Chakra
Aaron Joseph	...	Drive
Abas Khan	...	Pilot
Pehelwan Ameer	...	Mooty
K.S. Tripathi	...	Conservation officer
Peter Cooke	...	Foreman
Denis Bastian	...	Servant

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

UK | USA | Switzerland

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

West Germany:12 (nf) | Norway:12 | Finland:K-12 | UK:U

Filming Locations:

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Company:

Allfin A.G.

Movie Connections:

Followed by Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones (1967)

A real tarzan

Jock Mahoney's first outing as Burroughs' Tarzan makes for a nice, enjoyable movie. Though like many sixties adventures it is aimed at a younger crowd, accounting for a rather irritating kid sidekick, it is much truer in tone to Burroughs' work than most of what preceded it. Mahoney is a good Tarzan, portraying him as intelligent and articulate as the written version, although a bit to mellow. This is not the savage Tarzan of the books. The Indian scenery is wonderful, the story, while fairly simple, is well done, and most of the acting is good for it's genre and time. The elephant roundup is spectacular. All in all, one of the better Tarzan movies of those i've seen so far.