Thursday, May 19, 2022

Tarzan's Revenge - 1938!


Tarzan's Revenge is another Sol Lesser production, and I have little recommend about this movie. It's got some fun side characters presented by professionals, but the leads are hopeless amateurs, and it shows time after time. Tarzan here is played by Glenn Morris an Olympic star with no other movie credits and who apparently left acting after this awful effort. He's got a body, but his charm is completely absent. 


His lady in this is Elanor Holm a swimming star who is left to carry the movie despite her inexperience and she trudges on but is not up to it I'm afraid. They muddle around in this one despite setting up a villain early in the flick, but who doesn't return until the last ten minutes or so. There is much bouncing through the trees, swimming in the rivers, and whatnot, but overall, this one is slow. The action when it does erupt at the end isn't half bad with a pretty good battle on a rope bridge, but when Tarzan invades the hidden castle it's like he's on the set of a Busby Berkley production or something and doesn't sell at all. The title doesn't seem to mean anything at all, unless it's that this Tarzan gets the girl despite being shot by the foppish boyfriend.

This diverting and worth the very small money you might pay to see it, but only for Tarzan completists.


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