IslandGuru
Who payed the critics
Incannerax
What a waste of my time!!!
Ameriatch
One of the best films i have seen
Asad Almond
A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
Eric Stevenson
When I first heard the title of this movie, I thought it was going to be about Tarzan stopping some trappers, that is, people who were trapping animals. It turns out I got exactly what I expected...and not much else. I hate this if only because it was just so boring. There's relatively nothing of substance here at all. I haven't seen all the Tarzan movies so maybe this goes back to the classic days of the Weismuller era. You know, like how it takes place in that continuity. Tarzan was one of the few film series in Leonard Maltin's movie guide I was fully aware of when I first read it.It's vaguely like "The Most Dangerous Game" with one hunter talking about how he wants to take on Tarzan. At its very short length, it's mostly just a B-movie. There is very little going on at all. This would have been a great movie to feature on "Mystery Science Theater 3000". I'm used to films like this being shown there. I got bored without any riffing. *1/2
bkoganbing
After years of producing Tarzan films for the big screen, producer Sol Lesser decided that a television series might be in order. This film which did get some limited release on the big screen was intended for the small. You can clearly see where the commercial breaks were intended.It's also a step backward in terms of recognizing the emerging Africa which later Gordon Scott films did. Besides Scott the cast included Eve Brent as Jane and Rickie Sorensen as Boy.The two stories are only connected by the fact that the villains are brothers. In the first Tarzan stops a trapper from taking animals from his turf the jungle. He turns him over to the authorities. In the second story the first villain's brother challenges Tarzan to a jungle duel where Scott will be hunted like jungle prey. The most neophyte film fan will recognize The Most Dangerous Game as the source for the plot.That one actually could have and in fact was partially the source of a later big screen Tarzan film, Tarzan's Greatest Adventure. That one happens to be one of my favorites in the Tarzan series. This one is just a pale imitation.
Dan Phillips
Gordon Scott made some good Tarzan movies, but this is not one of them.As I watched it, wincing at the bad, obviously interior sets and the hollow wooden "clonking" sounds as they walked across supposedly dirt trails, and cringing at the bad dialog and worse acting among the supporting cast, I kept thinking, "Sheesh! This is TV show level!" Then I find out it was, indeed, three TV show pilot episodes woven seam-fully into one.It's nice to see Scott get outside (alone), away from the lame sets, in a few of the scenes; and the fights do have some pretty nice moves... but oh, ow, and ouch as to the dialog. And did I mention the acting? Heck, Cheetah (or "Cheta," in this version) was a better actor than most of the humans.And that's not saying much.It is kind of a stitch to see a younger Sherman (i.e. Scatman) Carothers acting as a native. But probably not worth the overall time-investment.
rkinsler
Of the countless actors who have portrayed Tarzan since Elmo Lincoln first appeared in 1918's `Tarzan of the Apes,' Gordon Scott remains the best to ever don a loincloth. So it's no surprise that `Tarzan and the Trappers' is one of the better Tarzan films of the past 80 years. The 1958 film was actually intended to comprise the first three episodes of a television series, but instead was made into a better-than-average Sol Lesser production that runs 74 minutes. The film's story remains contemporary, with Tarzan forced to fight for his own life while stopping greedy traders from illegally trapping and removing wildlife from the jungle.With the future of much of the world's wildlife in question, the story is as compelling now as it was 45 years ago...
