Product Description Tarzan Collection Starring Johnny Weissmuller, The (DVD)TARZAN THE APE MAN TARZAN AND HIS MATE TARZAN ESCAPES TARZAN FINDS A SON! TARZAN'S SECRET TREASURE TARZAN'S NEW YORK ADVENTURE -Johnny Weissmuler. Maureen O'Sullivan. He Tarzan, she Jane - the most memorable pair ever to portray Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle hero and heroine. All 6 of the stars' vine-swinging teamings are in this 3-disc set. The Lord of the Apes swoops Jane Parker into his life in the trendsetting Tarzan the Ape Man. He man, she woman in the sensual pre-Code Tarzan and His Mate, a tale that includes the sacred elephant graveyard. Next, Tarzan Escapes when a vile bwana aims to exploit him as a sideshow freak. A rift over how to raise Boy (John Sheffield) divides treehouse-sweet-treehousewhen Tarzan Finds a Son! Then, so-called civilized folks clash over gold, a metal not worth a coconut to the Ape Man in Tarzan's Secret Treasure. And a different jungle awaits in Tarzan's New York Adventure. Hold that taxi: ungawa!]]> .com Many actors have slipped on a loincloth and swung from a jungle vine, but nobody reached the treetops of Tarzania quite like Johnny Weissmuller, the Olympic swimmer. And Tarzan's greatest Jane was Maureen O'Sullivan, who moved into T's treehouse for six films at MGM, all collected in this splendid boxed set. It is possible to find these films hokey... but only if you have absolutely no feeling for the magic of early-sound pictures, or no joy in the gee-whiz, Saturday-matinee wonder of Tarzan's prelapsarian lifestyle. To say nothing of the surprisingly overt running theme of (implied) hot jungle sex.Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932), made with the blessings of Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, establishes the basics of the series (and uses extra Africa footage MGM had compiled for Trader Horn). There'd been many Tarzans before, but Weissmuller's buff bod and innocent charm won over audiences. Tarzan and His Mate is generally considered the best of the lot; it is also the sexiest, especially after the restoration of a hotsy-totsy nude swimming scene. The formula still works in Tarzan Escapes, which brings Jane's cousins out for a visit to the Mutia Escarpment, with its elephant-powered elevator for Tarzan's pad. (Always keep in mind that this is Africa of kiddie imagination, not the real deal.) Tarzan Finds a Son! introduces Johnny Sheffield as Boy, and stirs up the nest. Things were getting rote by the time of Tarzan's Secret Treasure, and the jungle is left behind entirely for Tarzan's New York Adventure, which has some fun stunts. Also included in the boxed set is the documentary Tarzan: Silver Screen King of the Jungle, which is a fine overview not just of the MGM Tarzan series but of its predecessors (though it does not mention the fact that Weissmuller went on to crank out more Tarzan pictures at RKO). It does delve into the mystery of just what the heck "ungawa" means. --Robert Horton
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Tarzan dvd
1000 percent satisfied,couldn't be more!
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The best way to see Tarzan is right here
This entire set is great, the first one being better. A powerful story of love,communication, corrupt white people & surviving the jungle in Africa. It also makes the white man look corrupt trying to take all the riches from the jungle. Johnny Weissmuller is easily the best Tarzan. Maureen O'Sullivan plays Jane perfectly...Tarzan the Ape Man introduces Tarzan & Jane, and how they wound up together. Love at first sight. A great great movie,with a surprising amount of somewhat graphic violence. Now these are in black and white, but the shooting of animals and the flesh penetration was heavy duty for its time.Tarzan Escapes is the 3rd film in the series with her family plotting to bring Jane home, but it is trick to capture Tarzan and get Jane back to 'civilization'. I cant blame her for staying in the jungle.Tarzan & his Mate - yes this has nude scenes with Jane swimming - I was shocked when I saw this - still another great film with more corrupt whites wanting to make money in Tarzan's land and he has to save the bad guys from an evil tribeTarzan Finds a Son - "Boy" is his name and this was another fun story basically the same formula - bad white guys who wind up being saved by TarzanSecret Treasure has more greedy white guys using boy to round up all the gold that is in Tarzan's land that boy found. Pretty much the same story of the bad white guys who get captured by an evil tribe and Tarzan has to save everyone. Tom Conway plays a great villain in this.Tarzan's New York Adventure rounds out this set,more greedy white guys kidnap Boy who will be a circus act with the animals. Tarzan in a suit no less goes to the circus and climbs buildings to find boy. Tarzan goes to court over Boy. It was different. I do like it because it got away from the Jungle, it was like a curve ball from someone who threw fastballs,a change of pace..I think overall these are fantastic films(especially the first ones). The DVD's are completely uncut & the movies are fun to watch. Watching the animals as always entertaining. Tarzan fights an alligator scene pops up in 3 movies. Same footage, still fun. If you like jungle films, you cant miss Tarzan and this whole series..highly recommended
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Nazis have Boy? .... Now , Tarzan make war!
Oh, thank you MGM! I have waited years for the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies to come to DVD.Quite simply, they were the best of them all, even better than the RKO ones he did afterward. These were lavish and big movies, a delightful fantasy. I just hope they fix up the quality of the first movie, Tarzan of the Apes. I have them all on video, and the quality was fine, but the first movie needs a clean-up.After I see the DVD I'll come back to edit this review.Now let's get something straight here, boys and girls. This is Hollywood's version of Tarzan, though I think Johnny is the closest in physique and ferocity to the real Tarzan of the books.By virtue of his lifestyle Tarzan should be built like a gymnist/swimmer, long, lean, well defined muscles and not blown-up like a weightlifter. He played it with great dignity also, and did most of his acting with his eyes. Tarzan spoke more than a dozen languages, lived on an estate in British east Africa, flew planes and even had a girlfriend on the side, one La of opar. His real son was named John Clayton also, but in jungle parlance he was known as Korak the Killer, having been kidnapped as a child and grown up in the wild as did his father. His best animal friend was not a chimp named Cheetah, but a golden lion named Jad-bal-ja. Jane was blond and American, not brunette and British. ..But what difference does it make? These movies are wonderful fun. I wax nostalgic when I recall as a young boy in the fifties watching these movies on Sundays at 1pm on the CBS Movie for a Sunday Afternoon. And yes, all the stores were closed and life was for the better. People were visiting relatives and not running to shopping malls to sped money and abdicate parental responsibilites.After all, Tarzan searched for his son for ten years!Well, I now have the set and have watched the movies. I'm disappointed. They did nothing to clean up the movies. They're the exact quality of what's showing on TCM on a regular basis. Why bother to do it if they don't improve on it?
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preorder pictures helpful
Complete and in very good condition as described. The pictures were helpful in deciding to order.
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Great set of films here! Highly recommend!
These are a great set of classic Tarzan films from the 1930's. Lots of humor. Highly recommend them!
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The Maureen O'Sullivan Set
The first 5 films, in this alternate universe, portray Tarzan living in an exotic paradise, high on a plateau in the unexplored interior of equatorial Africa. Tarzan wishes to be left alone, unfortunately, there are those who have heard of the fabulous wealth to be had in Tarzan's realm. All they have to do is trek across miles and miles of jungle teeming with sharp-toothed beasts and hostile tribes and then climb a treacherous 1,500 foot cliff called the Mutier Escarpment. Once on top, they'll find Tarzan's territory is just as dangerous . . . .The last film is a departure from the rest. Some men have taken Boy to New York to exploit his skill handling animals. Tarzan and Jane fly to the city to retrieve him. You might expect this to be a "fish out of water" story, but Tarzan easily adapts to this unfamiliar concrete jungle . . . .This set of Tarzan films was produced by MGM and Jane's character was perfectly played by Maureen O'Sullivan. (In "The Tarzan Collection, Volume 2", Jane was played by Brenda Joyce and produced by RKO Radio Pictures.)Best way to view: recommend watching them in the order they were made - note the second film is on disc 2, not disc 1.Special Features disc: no standouts, but interesting.DVD - 2004. Sharpness, Contrast, & Brightness varies from fair to good. Defects: grainy. In "Tarzan the Ape Man" many shots have a darkening in the corners. Sound: volume moderately low. Languages Exception: "Tarzan and HIs Mate" is English only. The Special Features disc has no language/subtitle options. Discs are single-sided.
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