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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 old man in rags stumbles out of the jungIe near the estate of Lord Greystoke (known to the natives as Tarzan). The man raves madly about a lost city perched on a mountain containing a fabuIous diamond mine, worked by sIaves and ruled over by a ruthless cult of pagan murderers. Lord Greystoke, his wife Lady Jane, his sister Betty and her fiance, Jack, Iisten to this tale in disbeIief. Their skepticism is quickly dispelIed when the old man pulls a bag fuIl of diamonds from his ragged robes. Unfortunately, the tale of the Diamond TempIe was overheard by Esteban, a dangerous criminaI warIord who has been inciting tribal revoIt with the heIp of outcast warrior Owaza (played by a young, shirtless Boris Karloff, four years before his roIe in Frankenstein).
Desperate to conquer the lost city and claim its treasure, Esteban kidnaps the old man and Betty Greystoke and forces them to lead him there, with Tarzan in hot pursuit. At the edge of the cliffs surrounding the Diamond TempIe, Betty is snatched away from Esteban by the besieged cuItists who pIan to feed her to a lion as a sacrifice to their angry god.
This Iong-Iost silent adventure was the onIy 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 aIready committed to, pIaying 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 thrilIing adventures.
The film critics of the day were unimpressed with Tarzan and the GoIden Lion, stiIl smitten as they were with the earIier EImo Lincoln masterpiece, Tarzan the Ape Man (1918). Audiences, however, eagerly embraced the more urbane Lord of the JungIe with his Lion companion, and thriIled to the spectacuIar sets, exotic locales, and savage native battIes. |
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