Tarzan's Hidden Jungle is a stock entry in the Edgar Rice Burrough apeman marathon and serves to introduce a new title hero. Gordon Scott, succeeding Lex Barker who last played the character, is a well muscled man but seldom convincing in the part.
Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle is a stock entry in the Edgar Rice Burrough apeman marathon and serves to introduce a new title hero. Gordon Scott, succeeding Lex Barker who last played the character, is a well muscled man but seldom convincing in the part.
A pair of hunters (Jack Elam, Charles Fredericks), who have a contract to deliver fats, skins, heads and ivory are the heavies and they receive rough justice when an elephant stampede tramples them to death. Intervening footage shows them accompanying a United Nations doctor (Peter Van Eyck) who thinks they are cameramen, into savage country where he is the only white allowed. Their purpose is to drive the vast number of animals out of this territory so they can slaughter them without fear of the natives. Tarzan defeats this intention, simultaneously saving the doctor and the latter’s nurse (Vera Miles).
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Harold Schuster’s direction rarely rises above the script deficiencies, and the insertion of stock animal footage fails to match the quality of the footage proper. Zippy, a new Cheta, and another chimp, Lucky, are the real cuties of this show.
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