Friday, March 22, 2019

Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)


TARZAN AND THE AMAZONS  (1945)  
¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Kurt Neumann
    Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield,
    Henry Stephenson, Maria Ouspenskaya, Barton MacLane
Tarzan kills a panther with a rock, wrestles a crocodile, frolics with Jane in the jungle, and tries to keep some greedy explorers from a hidden city inhabited by warrior women. The hidden city's in Africa and the women there are all Caucasian, but I guess we're not supposed to think too much about that. A relatively late entry in Weissmuller's Tarzan career, made at a point when he was starting to look less like a young Olympian and more like a middle-aged guy in a loincloth. Joyce was Maureen O'Sullivan's replacement and would play Jane in four more Tarzan films  before retiring in 1949.