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Tarzan's Fight for Life

  • 19581958
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 26m
IMDb RATING
5.2/10
508
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Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
ActionAdventure
A doctor calls on Tarzan to topple the native witch doctor whose black-magic remedies are killing patients.A doctor calls on Tarzan to topple the native witch doctor whose black-magic remedies are killing patients.A doctor calls on Tarzan to topple the native witch doctor whose black-magic remedies are killing patients.
IMDb RATING
5.2/10
508
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    • H. Bruce Humberstone
    • Edgar Rice Burroughs(characters)
    • Thomas Hal Phillips
  • Stars
    • Gordon Scott
    • Eve Brent
    • Rickie Sorensen
    • H. Bruce Humberstone
    • Edgar Rice Burroughs(characters)
    • Thomas Hal Phillips
  • Stars
    • Gordon Scott
    • Eve Brent
    • Rickie Sorensen
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    • 13User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    Gordon Scott in Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
    Gordon Scott in Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
    Eve Brent and Gordon Scott in Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
    Gordon Scott in Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
    Eve Brent and Gordon Scott in Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
    Eve Brent and Gordon Scott in Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
    Gordon Scott in Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
    Eve Brent in Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
    Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
    Gordon Scott and Rickie Sorensen in Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
    Gordon Scott and Rickie Sorensen in Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
    Gordon Scott and Rickie Sorensen in Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)

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    Gordon Scott
    Gordon Scott
    • Tarzan
    Eve Brent
    Eve Brent
    • Jane
    Rickie Sorensen
    • Tartu, Tarzan's Adopted Son
    Jil Jarmyn
    Jil Jarmyn
    • Ann Sturdy
    James Edwards
    James Edwards
    • Futa
    Carl Benton Reid
    Carl Benton Reid
    • Dr. Sturdy
    Harry Lauter
    Harry Lauter
    • Dr. Ken Warwick
    Woody Strode
    Woody Strode
    • Ramo
    Cheta
    • Self
    Roy Glenn
    Roy Glenn
    • Native Chief
    • (uncredited)
    Paulene Myers
    Paulene Myers
    • Native Mother
    • (uncredited)
    Nick Stewart
    • Molo
    • (uncredited)
    Milton Wood
    • Temple Native
    • (uncredited)
      • H. Bruce Humberstone
      • Edgar Rice Burroughs(characters)
      • Thomas Hal Phillips
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    • Trivia
      During African location filming with Miki Carter for this mostly studio bound film, Gordon Scott got along well with some natives involved in the movie. A Masai warrior nicknamed him "Mtu Ule Na Panda Mitu Minegu" (Warrior Who Climbs Tall Trees).
    • Goofs
      Jane is first shown at the tree home in a two-piece leather outfit with a couple-inch strip of bare midriff showing, and seconds later is wearing a one-piece outfit when Tarzan arrives.
    • Quotes

      Tarzan: If you do not let me go, young chief will die.

    • Connections
      Featured in Biography: Tarzan: The Legacy of Edgar Rice Burroughs (1996)

    User reviews13

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    7/10
    Tarans's Fight For Life
    A lot of critics have panned this movie as a poor Tarzan film ...I totally disagree...Gordon Scott is a magnificent Tarzan with a superman physique - just what the role demanded....Scott must save a tribal village from an evil witch doctor named Futa who hates Tarzan with a passion because Tarzan knows that the witch doctor's medicine is inferior to Dr. Carl Sturdy who is in the jungle trying to develop a serum to fight tropical infections....adding to the film is a romance between Dr. Sturdy's daughter (Jill Jarmyn) and her father's medical cohort. Movie was made in brilliant technicolor with very good lighting effects....Gordon Scott gives the Tarzan yell from a limb on a tree as Futa's henchmen try to attack and kill natives bringing supplies to Dr. Sturday...It should be mentioned that MGM inserted several ft of footage to this film from film from "Tarzan and the Lost Safari" also starring Scott.....Scott is by far the most athletic Tarzan of them all, the handsomest and best athlete for the role... Check out a scene where a 25 ft python is wrapped around Scott who is trying to protect Jane from attack....lots of good action scenes and lions and evil tribesman...standard fare for the day for a Tarzan movie....Scott introduces his son as "Tartu" and not "boy" for some strange reason in the film....James Edwards (the cook in "The Caine Mutiny") gives a good action job as the evil Futa.....I liked this Tarzan film a lot and one year later Scott starred in the classic "Tarzan's Greatest Adventure" with Anthony Quayle and a young Sean Connery of 007 fame.
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    • Release date
      • July 1958 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Burney Falls, McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park - Highway 89, Burney, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Sol Lesser Productions
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    • 1 hour 26 minutes

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