Tarzan and the Lost Safari
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| Directed by | Bruce Humberstone |
| Written by | Montgomery Pittman Lillie Hayward |
| Produced by | John Croydon |
| Starring | Gordon Scott Robert Beatty Yolande Donlan Betta St. John |
| Cinematography | C.M. Pennington-Richards |
| Edited by | Bill Lewthwaite |
| Music by | Clifton Parker |
| Distributed by | MGM |
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Running time | 86 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957) is an action adventure film featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous jungle hero Tarzan and starring Gordon Scott, Robert Beatty, Yolande Donlan and Betta St. John. The movie was directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, and was the first Tarzan movie released in color, Eastman Color. It was also MGM's first Tarzan film since 1942 and filmed in Nairobi, British East Africa. The character of Jane does not appear in this motion picture.
Plot
An airplane crashes in the jungle, stranding passengers Gamage Dean (Yolande Donlan), Diana Penrod (Betta St. John), "Doodles" Fletcher (Wilfrid Hyde-White), Carl Kraski (George Coulouris), and Dick Penrod (Peter Arne). Before the plane slides into a gorge the group is rescued by Tarzan (Gordon Scott), who undertakes to lead them back to civilization. Diana is kidnapped by warriors from Opar under Chief Ogonooro (Orlando Martins). The Oparians desire the strangers as sacrifices for their lion god. She is recovered by Tarzan and hunter Tusker Hawkins (Robert Beatty), whose advances Diana rebuffs. Secretly, however, Hawkins is in league with the Oparians, and plans to sell the castaways to the natives for a fortune in ivory. Tarzan, rightly suspecting Hawkins' untrustworthiness, exposes his treachery. Now openly in league with the natives, the hunter helps them take the white party captive in Tarzan's absence. The ape man returns to save them before the sacrifice can take place, aided by his chimpanzee ally Cheeta, who sets fire to the native village. He then leads them to the safety of a nearby settlement. Hawkins meets his fate at the hands of the Oparians, to whom Tarzan has signaled his double-dealing by a creative use of jungle drums.
Cast
- Gordon Scott as Tarzan
- Robert Beatty as Tusker Hawkins
- Yolande Donlan as Gamage Dean
- Betta St. John as Diana Penrod
- Wilfrid Hyde-White as 'Doodles' Fletcher (as Wilfrid Hyde White)
- George Coulouris as Carl Kraski
- Peter Arne as Dick Penrod
- Orlando Martins as Oparian Chieftain Ogonoore
Notes
The film contains more echoes of the original Burroughs novels than usual in a Tarzan movie, including the ape man's allusions to his origin (which follows Burroughs' version), and the use of Opar, though reducing the romantic lost city described by Burroughs to a generic native village. Tarzan, while retaining the customary film characterization of an inarticulate simpleton, displays considerable shrewdness and resource, foreshadowing the restoration of Burroughs' original concept of an intelligent, multitalented ape man in later movies.
References
External links
- Tarzan and the Lost Safari at IMDb
- Tarzan and the Lost Safari entry on "Down Memory Lane with Tarzan (Gordon Scott)"
- Tarzan and the Lost Safari entry on At-A-Glance Film Reviews
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