Tarzan and the Valley of Gold

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Allan C @RT15713161 16h Tarzan joins the swingin’ 60s spy film craze I was expecting a typical dumb Tarzan picture when I set a recording for this franchise entry, which I’d never heard of before, but I was rather shocked and delighted to discover this entry has Tarzan battling James Bond-like villains and has the Lord of the Jungle wearing a suit, shooting machine guns, and even driving a tank! Tarzan does sport a loincloth and does have animal friends once he hits the jungle, but this AIP attempt to cash in on the 60s spy film craze by dropping Tarzan into the thick of it is so utterly ridiculous, that the film feels nearly like a Mexican wrester genre mashup type of picture, where you take Santo and have him fighting Dracula one movie, and then having battling secret agents in the next. Personally, I love the Santo movies, and I loved the ridiculousness of this film too. Overall, it’s probably a ** film as best, but I definitely got *** worth of entertainment out of it. See more 11/07/2019 One year after FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE and two years after two disastrous Jock Mahoney films, producer Sy Weintraub grafts Tarzan into a script with an international criminal seeking a fabled lost city of gold in Mexico. The sole purpose of the chimp, lion and jaguar in the film is to give a tenuous African reference point, as the script, right down to the Indiana Jones, ending, owes more to Ian Fleming than Edgar Rice Burroughs. That's not to say the film is not entertaining. It is, but it only works as a Tarzan film if you twist it one side and squint your eyes. See more 08/12/2016 It doesn't look like a Tarzan movie at all to begin with, or for the rest of the film really, with all the action taking place in Mexico, and our hero wearing a suit and tie when we first see him. After a while he's heading off into the Mexican dessert with a lion, a cheetah, and Cheetah substitute - a giant cola bottle kills a would-be-assasin too. Perhaps its strangeness is its most alluring feature! See more 05/08/2016 I was kind of confused when this film started because Mike Henry was wearing a suit and then has a shootout with some bad guys in a big city, because that did not seem anything like the Tarzan adventures I was expecting. However, Henry does quickly don a loincloth and goes back to the jungle with his cheetah and chimpanzee friends to fight some bad guys trying to find and exploit the titular valley of gold. Outside of "Tarzan and His Mate" I don't think there are any Tarzan films I'd say are great, but this one is definitely near the bottom of that heap. However, I did enjoy the corny Martin Denny Exotica inspired lounge "jungle" music, which did serve to add to the film's enjoyable absurdity. See more 05/05/2016 even color & panavision can't save this hot mess i think the worse Tarzan misadventure See more 12/29/2013 No Jane and no cheetah....and no jungle hardly. Tarzan was given a revamp in the swinging sixties but you get Doc Savage crossed with the Men from UNCLE. Very poor. See more Read all reviews

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