07-30-2016, 10:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-30-2016, 12:03 PM by bionicbob. Edited 2 times in total.)
Went with a Tarzan double feature last night....
I was lucky to grow up in small town with an independent family run movie theatre, and every weekend for matinees they would play older movies. It was here I saw my first Tarzan movie on the big screen.....
Part of the Sy Weintraub era of produced Tarzan movies -- Tarzan is fully articulate, there is no Jane, the adventures are shot on location and in colour, the stories have a more serious, edgier undercurrent and they become more global as the franchise continued.
This was Mike Henry's second of three outings as the Lord of the Jungle. He would later go on to the Smokey & the Bandit movies.
While not the strongest of actors, Henry brought a powerful physicality to the role and his action scenes are fantastic. Almost no stunt double in this action adventure. The climatic end fight scene is incredible.
Its amazing this movie from 1967 is rated G, as I am sure if it was released today, based on some of the violence, it would be PG-13. But there is nice comedic relief for the kids in the form of a crusty but loveable river captain and his cute kid sidekick.
Overall, a solid escapist entry!
Though as a young child when I first saw this movie, and even to this day, I find it odd that Tarzan would give his animal friends to a zoo.... lol But how else were the producers going to get his lion and chimp to Brazil?
I was lucky to grow up in small town with an independent family run movie theatre, and every weekend for matinees they would play older movies. It was here I saw my first Tarzan movie on the big screen.....
Part of the Sy Weintraub era of produced Tarzan movies -- Tarzan is fully articulate, there is no Jane, the adventures are shot on location and in colour, the stories have a more serious, edgier undercurrent and they become more global as the franchise continued.
This was Mike Henry's second of three outings as the Lord of the Jungle. He would later go on to the Smokey & the Bandit movies.
While not the strongest of actors, Henry brought a powerful physicality to the role and his action scenes are fantastic. Almost no stunt double in this action adventure. The climatic end fight scene is incredible.
Its amazing this movie from 1967 is rated G, as I am sure if it was released today, based on some of the violence, it would be PG-13. But there is nice comedic relief for the kids in the form of a crusty but loveable river captain and his cute kid sidekick.
Overall, a solid escapist entry!
Though as a young child when I first saw this movie, and even to this day, I find it odd that Tarzan would give his animal friends to a zoo.... lol But how else were the producers going to get his lion and chimp to Brazil?
"... let's go exploring!" -- CALVIN.
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