Tarzan's Hidden Jungle

1955 "Thundering New Tarzan Thrills!"
5.4| 1h12m| PG| en
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Hunters trespass into Sukulu country, where animals are sacred, posing as photographers.

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Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Mischa Redfern I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Portia Hilton Blistering performances.
pensman I just caught this on TCM Saturday run of Tarzan films. No doubt I must have seen this during a Saturday matinee because I loved Tarzan books and movies when I was a kid but this is a rather slow moving Tarzan and in retrospect it seems the film was aimed at a more sophisticated audience and not just eight year olds. Real fans knew that Tarzan was the well educated Lord Greystoke who constantly yielded to his need to return to the jungle but this Tarzan is still monosyllabic The action here is minimal; not the Tarzan a kid wants to imitate in their backyard play.
LeonLouisRicci Known Most Notably as the Debut Film for Gordon Scott's Stint as Tarzan, but Also for RKO on the Way Out of the Business and Refusing Any Budget for the Thing, and Scott Meeting and Marrying Vera Miles on the Set.The Movie has No Jane, No Boy, and Only Cheta Returns to Pal Along with Tarzan as He Once Again Goes Up Against White Hunters Who are on a Safari of Death for Profit. The Hidden Jungle of the Title Refers to an Across the River Sanctuary for the Critters Helped by a Friendly Native Tribe that Exchanges Remedies with a United Nations Doctor.Jack Elam and His Bad Guys Run Up Against the Natives and Tarzan and the Result is Predictable but Fun. The Series Would Get Better with Gordon Scott Becoming More Articulate and the Stories More Diversified. Glorious Color Became a Tarzan Standard and the Franchise, Once Again, Had Some Critical and Fan Success Following This One.
zardoz-13 Gordon Scott made his motion picture debut as the Lord of the Jungle in "Dinner at the Ritz" director Harold D. Schuster's "Tarzan's Hidden Jungle" co-starring Peter Van Eyck, Jack Elam, Don Beddoe, Rex Ingram, and Vera Miles. Basically, this RKO release qualifies as just another Tarzan movie. Scott maintains the tradition of the choppy delivery perpetuated by Johnny Weismuller and carried on my Lex Barker. Tarzan tangles with big game hunters who have a quota in the number of barrels of animal fat, animal skins, and pounds of ivory they can harvest from the senseless slaughter of jungle wildlife. Of course, Tarzan supports the wildlife and meets a beautiful nurse and a dedicated doctor while he clashes with despicable poachers. When the hunters decimate the numbers of animals on one side of the river, they decide to cross the river into the Sukulu country. The obstacle that they face across the river is that the Sukulu tribe protects the animals and treats them with respect. The evil hunters fool the nurse into helping them convince the doctor that they are legitimate photographers who want to make a documentary about his efforts. Vera Miles learns about how dangerous that the jungle can be when she is caught between either sinking into a quicksand pit or being eaten by a python. Predictably, Tarzan saves the day. Not only does he rescue the comely young nurse, but he also saves the good doctor and her from death at the hands of the Sukulu. Scott makes an okay Tarzan and Elam is a dastard. Richard Reeves is around long enough to become a prisoner of the Sukulus. They hurl him into a den of lions and we are treated to a glimpse of a dummy dressed as him fall into the pit. Schuster doesn't wear out his welcome at a trim 72 minutes. "Perils of Nyoka" scenarist William Lively penned the screenplay in this clash of culture epics. Producer Sol Lesser had this adventure lensed in black & white with many obvious studio interiors. Tarzan doesn't live in a tree house. He neither has Jane as his mate or a son as his companion.
David Vanholsbeeck Tarzan, "The ape man", fights it out (again) with a bunch of hunters, an evil witch-doctor and all those "scary" animals of the jungle. As you can see, this is what Tarzan's all about. Nothing new nor surprising here, no Academy Awards nominations, no great dialogue, not really exciting. When you see a Tarzan flick you know what to expect. I guess for some people that 's the charm of Tarzan, but there are better ways to spend your afternoon. And better Tarzan films (e.g. TARZAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE)too. But it still is a Tarzan film, and there are also worse films than one of those. 4/10