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| Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942) | |
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| Topic Started: Jun 19 2009, 08:07 PM (138 Views) | |
| Laughing Gravy | Jun 19 2009, 08:07 PM Post #1 |
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When Boy is kidnapped by evil guys, Tarzan and Jane head for the most dangerous jungle of all - New York City - to rescue the curly-haired li'l feller. I just love this movie, the last of the six MGM Tarzan films to star Weissmuller & O'Sullivan. It's short (71 min.), fast-moving, has tons of amusing, Hal Roach-type bits with Cheeta and various trained animals, offers Johnny & Maureen lookin' good and feelin' fine, and has some nice stuntwork on the Brooklyn Bridge. Mantan Moreland pops up out of nowhere to do a telephone schtick with Cheeta (whose goofy laugh is supplied by former Our Gang kid Mickey Daniels), too. I just love this movie, and I think I said that already. Paul Kelly is Tarzan's helper in this film, and Virginia Grey pops up long enough to sing a line or two from a song. I've never seen Chill Wills lookin' so skinny, either. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Jun 20 2009, 05:43 AM Post #2 |
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Oh, yeah, I forgot: our short subjects. The 45th greatest cartoon of all time, according to Jerry Beck's poll, is Bob Clampett's "Book Revue". More weird ha-ha than funny ha-ha; Daffy Duck as a zoot-suited hipster scat singing in a foreign accent for several minutes is partially amazing and partially too hard to listen to. A wolf goes to hell and becomes gay. Like I said, weird. We've only seen 6 of the top 50 so far, and what they have in common is that they're so friggin' weird. Obviously from a list of animation pros, who voted for interesting, oddball cartoons. So far at least. Next up was "Fly My Kite". Hilarious Our Gang romp; Grandma's son-in-law is the biggest, meanest, vilest creep you ever saw as he steals the old lady's money and dumps her in the County Home. Well, not if Chubby, Mary Ann, Stymie, Farina, and of course Petey have anything to say about it. Nice stuntwork, probably by Dave Sharpe, for Grandma. And then episode 14 of Mysterious Island, as Cap'n Nemo is unmasked at last and it turns out he looks just like General Custer. Our rock video this week was a clip of the Who calling Kelly Jones of Stereophonics up on stage with them to do "Substitute". |
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| Frank Hale | Jun 20 2009, 02:59 PM Post #3 |
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Me not being a jungle-film-type-guy, this was always my favorite of the series also. Highlights include jumping off the bridge, the car wreck, and trying to guess the chest size of Johnny Weissmuller’s very natty double-breasted suit. However, the Tarzan film I’ve been meaning to revisit is “Tarzan Escapes”. A documentary in the most recent Forbidden Hollywood collection went on at some length about William Wellman’s contribution, including a clip of Tarzan and Cheetah harassing Herbert Mundin, and Mr. Wellman’s comments that he would have loved to direct another Tarzan. Further research reveals that John Farrow, George B. Seitz, and James McKay also worked on the film, but that it was completely reshot by Richard Thorpe after the preview’s violence scared the wits out of the audience. Presumably this preview version would have been included in the DVD collection if it still existed. If any additional Wellman footage remains in the existing film, it no doubt consists of gorillas and chimps standing around. So, Gravy, I understand you’re a real prick. Really, I had no idea! |
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| Laughing Gravy | Jun 20 2009, 03:40 PM Post #4 |
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Oh, yeah, I am. Sadly, no footage survives of the missing pieces of Tarzan Escapes, which included giant vampire bads ripping people apart. |
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| Sgt King | Jun 22 2009, 07:48 PM Post #5 |
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How much do I love Tarzan Finds A Son? Look where I placed it in my top 11 adventure films-- ADVENTURE 1 KING KONG – ‘33 2 TARZAN AND HIS MATE - ‘32 3 GOLDFINGER – ‘64 4 TARZAN FINDS A SON – ‘39 5 SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD – ‘58 6 SUPERMAN – ‘78 7 ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD – ‘38 8 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK – ‘81 9 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE – ‘63 10 TARZAN’S GREATEST ADVENTURE – ‘59 11 SUPERMAN II – ‘81 |
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| CliffClaven | Jun 23 2009, 12:15 AM Post #6 |
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Game to play with the MGM Tarzans: Watch for the stock shot of the crocodile sliding into the water. I'm pretty sure it's in every one of the MGM films. Beyond jungle stock footage, the Tarzans recycled a lot of their own scenes a few films later: -- Tarzan running down and killing dinner -- Tarzan rescuing somebody from a charging rhino (the rear projection is the same) -- Tarzan catching Jane when she leaps from a tree -- The Rube Goldberg fan in Tarzan's treehouse (the actual shots of it working) -- The airplane approaching the wall or cliff or whatever it was -- A whole sequence where unpleasant natives start treating captives like wishbones -- And random individual shots of running natives, used to pad chases I'm not sure anybody else recycled themselves so heavily until Columbia started using whole reels of old Stooges shorts in their "new" releases (Sure, Republic leaned heavily on stock -- but generally in non-sequel serials with new characters). |
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