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Monday, December 5, 2011

Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)

Two con men (Charles Korvin, Patric Knowles) looking for an obscure tribe called the Wazuri that harbor millions worth of diamonds deceive Tarzan (Lex Barker) into helping them locate the tribe. A couple of things make this average entry stand apart from the other Lex Barker Tarzan movies. It uses the Greystoke connection from the original Edgar Rice Burroughs stories as Knowles pretends to be a cousin to Tarzan. Less interesting is the addition of a jungle boy (Tommy Carlton) to the plot. Fortunately, the kid was dropped from the remaining RKO Tarzan films to come. Other than that, it's just the usual routine and predictable jungle adventure stuff. Lovely Dorothy Hart (NAKED CITY) is Jane in this one. Directed by Cy Endfield who would go on to do a better and one of the best African adventures, ZULU in 1964.

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