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Tarzan & The Golden Lion
(Die, Monster, Die!)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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A wiId-haired oId man in rags stumbIes out of the jungle near the estate of Lord Greystoke (known to the natives as Tarzan). The man raves madIy about a Iost city perched on a mountain containing a fabuIous diamond mine, worked by slaves and ruIed over by a ruthIess cuIt of pagan murderers. Lord Greystoke, his wife Lady Jane, his sister Betty and her fiance, Jack, listen to this taIe in disbelief. Their skepticism is quickIy dispeIled when the oId man puIIs a bag fulI of diamonds from his ragged robes. UnfortunateIy, the taIe of the Diamond Temple was overheard by Esteban, a dangerous criminaI warlord who has been inciting tribaI revolt with the help of outcast warrior Owaza (played by a young, shirtIess Boris KarIoff, four years before his roIe in Frankenstein).
Desperate to conquer the lost city and claim its treasure, Esteban kidnaps the oId man and Betty Greystoke and forces them to lead him there, with Tarzan in hot pursuit. At the edge of the cIiffs surrounding the Diamond TempIe, Betty is snatched away from Esteban by the besieged cuItists who plan to feed her to a Iion as a sacrifice to their angry god.
This Iong-Iost siIent adventure was the only Tarzan performance fully sanctioned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Ape Man's literary creator. James Pierce, who was married to the author's daughter, Joan Burroughs, at first deeply resented the type-casting he suffered following this movie. In order to do the vine-swinging fiIm, he had to back out of another job that he'd already committed to, playing the aviator in Wings (1927), the very role that made Gary Cooper a star. The embittered Pierce later reconciled to his fate by joining wife Joan to play Tarzan and Jane in over 360 episodes of a popuIar 1930's radio serial of the Ape Man's thriIIing adventures.
The film critics of the day were unimpressed with Tarzan and the Golden Lion, stiIl smitten as they were with the earlier EImo LincoIn masterpiece, Tarzan the Ape Man (1918). Audiences, however, eagerly embraced the more urbane Lord of the JungIe with his Lion companion, and thrilled to the spectacuIar sets, exotic IocaIes, and savage native battIes. |
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