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Revision as of 18:30, 18 January 2013
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Directed by | Richard Thorpe |
Written by | William R. Lipman Myles Connolly |
Produced by | Frederick Stephani |
Starring | Johnny Weissmuller Maureen O'Sullivan Johnny Sheffield |
Cinematography | Sidney Wagner |
Edited by | Gene Ruggiero |
Music by | David Snell |
Distributed by | MGM |
Release date |
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Running time | 71 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Tarzan's New York Adventure is a 1942 film, the sixth Tarzan film to feature actors Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan. This film was the sixth and final film in MGM's Tarzan series and was the studio's last Tarzan film until their 1958 release, Tarzan's Fight for Life, directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and starring Gordon Scott and Eve Brent.[1] Of interest is the uncredited appearance as a circus roustabout by Elmo Lincoln who in 1918 was the first actor to star as Tarzan. This was Maureen O'Sullivan's last picture until 1948. She wanted to devote more time to her seven children.
Plot
Circus workers land an airplane in the jungles of Africa in search of lions for their show. While trapping lions, the three men meet up with Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller), Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) and their adopted son Boy (Johnny Sheffield). Watching Boy's tricks with the elephants, the head of the circus, Buck Rand (Charles Bickford), realizes that Boy would be a great act for the circus. The group is attacked by natives, and it appears that Tarzan and Jane have perished in a jungle fire. The men take Boy on a plane back to the United States. Tarzan's loyal chimp Cheeta wakes Tarzan and Jane before they are burned by the fire. Then Cheeta tells Tarzan that Boy has left with the men on the plane.
Tarzan, Jane and the chimp track across the jungle and eventually end up in New York City where Tarzan is befuddled by the lifestyle and gadgetry of "civilization". Tarzan displays his quaint, "noble savage" ways by complaining about the necessity of wearing clothing, commenting that an opera singer that he hears on a "noisy box" is "Woman sick! Scream for witch doctor!", and expressing his childlike wonderment at taxi cabs. It is noteworthy that Tarzan comments that various African-Americans he sees making a living throughout New York City are from this or that tribe back in their jungle home.
Tarzan and Jane attempt to get Boy back first by legal means. This leads to a moving sequence where the judge asks Tarzan what the fishing is like back in Africa and what he considers to be important things that he needs to teach his adopted son. Unfortunately, the circus retains an unscrupulous lawyer who tricks Jane into admitting that Boy was not born in the jungle and is not her actual child and provokes Tarzan into attacking him in the court room. Tarzan makes a daring escape out the courtroom windows and after a rooftop chase by the police ends up doing a high dive off the Brooklyn Bridge into the East River.
Tarzan somehow finds the circus where Boy is being held and enlists the aid of circus elephants who are chained to stakes. He calls to them with his "jungle speak" and they take their revenge on their tormentors by tearing free from the chains and destroying the circus. In the ensuing bedlam, Tarzan is able to rescue Boy, and in the film's conclusion the judge grants Tarzan and Jane full custody of Boy before the family returns to Africa.
Cast
- Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan
- Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane
- Johnny Sheffield as Boy
- Virginia Grey as Connie Beach
- Charles Bickford as Buck Rand (circus owner)
- Paul Kelly as Jimmie Shields, Pilot
- Elmo Lincoln as Circus Roustabout
- Chill Wills as Manchester Montford
- Cy Kendall as Col. Ralph Sergeant
- Russell Hicks as Judge Abbotson
- Howard C. Hickman as Blake Norton, Tarzan's Lawyer (as Howard Hickman)
- Charles Lane as Gould Beaton, Sargent's Lawyer
- Miles Mander as Portmaster
- Anne Jeffreys as Young Woman
- William Forrest as Inspector at Airport
- Willie Fung as Sun Lee, the Chinese Tailor
- Marjorie Deanne as Cigarette Girl
- Eddie Kane as Eddie, the Headwaiter
- Mantan Moreland as Sam, the Nightclub Janitor
- Dorothy Morris as Hat Check Girl
Notes
Although popular mythology claims that Johnny Weismuller did his own stunt and, as an escaping Tarzan, actually jumped 250 feet from the Brooklyn Bridge, according to the ERBzine research (Edgar Rice Burroughs) the shot was filmed by cameraman Jack Smith on top of the MGM scenic tower on lot 3 and used a dummy plunging into a tank. [2]