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Tarzan Triumphs <\/i>(1943)<\/strong><\/p>\n Director: \u00a0Wilhelm Thiele<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenplay: Carroll Young, Roy Chanslor ; <\/strong>story by Carroll Young;\u00a0<\/strong>based on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs<\/strong><\/p>\n Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Frances Gifford, Johnny Sheffield, Stanley Ridges, Sig Ruman, Philip Van Zandt, Tagline: A new exciting beauty arouses Tarzan’s fighting heart…as ruthless killers from the sky invade his jungle kingdom on a rampage of murder and worse! You’ll see…NEW TARZAN THRILLS by the thousand!<\/em><\/p>\n The Plot…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n World War II rages, but until now has not reached the jungles of Tarzan.<\/p>\n Until now.<\/p>\n A squad of Nazi paratroopers has taken over the the lost city of Palandrya.\u00a0 The Nazis are using the citizens as slave labor to mine rare minerals.\u00a0 When the Nazis kidnap Tarzan’s adopted son, Boy, Tarzan is drawn into the war.<\/p>\n “Ungawa!”<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Tarzan Triumphs<\/em> was Johnny Weissmuller’s seventh outing as Tarzan.\u00a0 Those films were made at MGM.\u00a0 This movie came from RKO.\u00a0 Along with Weissmuller, the studio got Johnny Sheffield (as Boy) and Cheetah.\u00a0 Maureen O’Sullivan (who played Jane in the previous films) was under contract with MGM.\u00a0 That’s why Jane is in England<\/em> during this film.<\/p>\n World War II was still being fought when Tarzan Triumphs<\/em> was made.\u00a0 Sol Lesser, the executive producer of Tarzan Triumphs<\/em> said it was suggested by the US State Department that having Tarzan fight Nazis would be a great morale builder.<\/p>\n If the fort where Tarzan and Boy are held captive looks familiar, it could be because it was the same set used in Gunga Din<\/em>.<\/p>\n When it comes to killing Nazis even Boy, Cheeta and Boy’s pet elephant take part.<\/p>\n The final scene with Cheetah “talking” on the radio and Nazis in Germany thinking it is Hitler speaking is classic.<\/p>\n If you like Tarzan films of this era, Tarzan Triumphs<\/em> is one of the better ones.<\/p>\n Tarzan Triumphs <\/i>(1943) <\/em><\/strong>rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n Tarzan Triumphs (1943) Director: \u00a0Wilhelm Thiele Screenplay: Carroll Young, Roy Chanslor ; story by Carroll Young;\u00a0based on characters created by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,17,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38191,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38190\/revisions\/38191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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