Four British villains raid a settlement to obtain explosives for use in a diamond mine. In doing so they nearly destroy the settlement, so and Tarzan pursues them to their mine.
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Gordon Scott | ... | Tarzan | |
| Anthony Quayle | ... | Slade | |
| Sara Shane | ... | Angie | |
| Niall MacGinnis | ... | Kruger (as Niall Macginnis) | |
| Sean Connery | ... | O'Bannion | |
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Al Mulock | ... | Dino |
| Scilla Gabel | ... | Toni | |
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After diamond hunters kill two people while stealing explosives, Tarzan sets off after them. The group, led by a man named Slade, are off to excavate a diamond mine. Along the way, Tarzan rescue an attractive woman, Angie, whose crashes her small airplane. She finds the trek demanding but sticks with it proving her worth when the time comes. As for Slade and his group, greed and jealousy take hold leaving only a few of them for Tarzan to fight in the end. Written by garykmcd
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Country:
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21 September 1959 (Sweden) See more »Also Known As:
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan's Greatest Adventure See more »Filming Locations:
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Dr. Quarles: What's wrong with you, little chap? Come on, Little Francis. I love you.
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Producer Sy Weintraub also wanted Anthony Quayle to come back for another Tarzan movie, but Quayle had been offered a part in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) after having been seen in this film, and couldn't accept. See more »Goofs
When Tarzan throws the hunter over the cliff at the end, the hunter's body makes a big splash when it hits the water as seen from below looking up, but then the view switches to the top of the cliff looking down, the hunter's body is on a large flat rock above water level where it could not have caused a splash. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Dr. Quarles: What's wrong with you, little chap? Come on, Little Francis. I love you.
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This film was made 25 years too early. Thats a fact.
Movies from the late 50's were usually worthy efforts but little stirred the blood apart from the Western genre. After all this was the area that sold most tickets and had a palette of colour that helped storytelling. Tarzan movies only sold as part of a double bill.
The biggest factor that held TGA back was that it was a GREAT film in an otherwise p**s poor series of B movies. The reasons for its success are many and hard to pin down. Even so, the main one is easy to identify. Simply put, its a hard b*****d of a film.
1) Tarzan is hard, resourceful, eloquent and cunning. 2) Tarzan gets hurt. The masochistic theme runs throughout the film. People die painfully in this Tarzan universe. 3) The villains are brutally nasty and can physically match Tarzan. 4) It is stripped down and lean. There's no laughs here. Tarzan leaves Cheetah behind. Tarzan doesn't romance or swim in studio back-lots. Tarzan kills people. He doesn't just scare the natives.
In short, TGA was a precursor of what was to come in Hollywood film-making. All you kids out there who watch Predator and think that is the greatest jungle adventure watch TGA. It'll be an eye opener.