LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

quridley George Scott's Tarzan is very much like Superman and this "film" is probably modeled on the old Superman TV show. This is 3 episodes of a planned series edited into a movie and it works. I think the use of 3 directors and stories gives the film more structure and diversity of tone than the typical films from that period.The 1st story details evil white hunters hurting animals and meeting Tarzan. Pt 2 has the hunters hunting Tarzan like game and the 3rd has Tarzan getting revenge for his tribesman friend (played by Scatman Crothers!). Its cheap and stagey, but well shot and the action is good. There's the usual inserts of safari footage but its good footage of cute and exotic animals. The treatment of the black characters is well done. Jane and Boy are barely in this but the cast is good. Gordon Scott is really a lovable hero, so it all comes off well.Minus color, effects and a multimillion dollar budget, this is comparable to today's superhero films. Modest fun.

Eric Stevenson When I first heard the title of this movie, I thought it was going to be about Tarzan stopping some trappers, that is, people who were trapping animals. It turns out I got exactly what I expected...and not much else. I hate this if only because it was just so boring. There's relatively nothing of substance here at all. I haven't seen all the Tarzan movies so maybe this goes back to the classic days of the Weismuller era. You know, like how it takes place in that continuity. Tarzan was one of the few film series in Leonard Maltin's movie guide I was fully aware of when I first read it.It's vaguely like "The Most Dangerous Game" with one hunter talking about how he wants to take on Tarzan. At its very short length, it's mostly just a B-movie. There is very little going on at all. This would have been a great movie to feature on "Mystery Science Theater 3000". I'm used to films like this being shown there. I got bored without any riffing. *1/2

Cristi_Ciopron Tarzan, the environmental awareness leader, faces four trappers who by most unorthodox means abduct animals to get them to Zoos. Tarzan has a bland but sexy enough wife with an impeccable hairdo, and a kid. No one should fault Tarzan for being grieved by the vicious actions of the hunters.This Gordon Scott Tarzan flick is one of the silliest, completely and unnecessarily silly; for one reason or another, the team did not find anything charming to sustain the movie, and so it's just some silly rubbish. Tarzan and his family are threatened by a group of evil trappers ,because Tarzan's environmental awareness brought him into open conflict with the evildoers. The kid and the chimpanzee, both belonging to Tarzan, are kidnapped by the malevolent trappers; so Tarzan summons the unleashed animal forces of the jungle to release the kid and the chimp—with Tarzan leading the attack. TARZAN AND THE TRAPPERS is silly, unappealing, quite uninteresting. Maybe as a kid I would have liked it? Now one has to be too mean—as viciously mean as those pathetic trappers punished by Tarzan—to ask a Tarzan flick not to be silly; this I concede. But one is also truly entitled to ask these Tarzan flicks, however silly, to have and to show some gusto—a bit of gusto—even a tiny bit of gusto. Some kick, some excitement, some fun. Now the Gordon Scott Tarzan failure is too silly exactly in the sense of not having any gusto at all, of lacking all excitement. (Yes, I liked the sequence of the jungle beast eating a snake. What beast? Watch the movie, kiddos, now here I just gave you one excuse to do so.) For one reason or another, the villains look somewhat pathetic and elicit mercy rather than virtuous anger.The books leave the impression that Tarzan seemed quite bright in his own way; and if finding a decent bodybuilder or another sportsman to look clever enough for the role might prove a too demanding, next to impossible task, Gordon Scott was anyway too far from meeting that ideal.The wife chides Tarzan for disliking books.The script suggests Tarzan was uneducated, almost illiterate, and adverse to learning; but the book says otherwise, and we know that Tarzan studied much, by himself, using the books of his gone family, before even meeting white people.And I did not like that yell.(It's supposed, dear kiddos, to be a genuine wild yell, not a missed yodeler.)

classicsoncall "So this is the mighty Tarzan, King of the Jungle"! That's the reaction of Sikes (Saul Gorse) as Tarzan makes his way to the evil trapper's camp. Tarzan (Gordon Scott) had already put away Sikes' brother for foolishly encroaching on Tarzan's domain, and it would only be a matter of time before he would do the same with older brother. If you're following the story with a discerning eye, you might wonder why Sikes didn't capture Tarzan right then and there instead of going through the motions of a jungle man hunt. I guess he wanted to make it a sporting proposition.Gordon Scott makes for a rather well proportioned Tarzan who might have had a backyard jungle gym (can't believe I came up with that one), but he doesn't come across as believable as Weissmuller, or going even further back, someone like Herman Brix. Besides his well proportioned physique, (notice the lats), Scott's hair never once seemed out of place and perfectly groomed at all times. Hard to imagine how that could be while living in the jungle, traveling by vines and wrestling crocs for sport. I'm still waiting for a picture where the jungle lord might actually bleed following one of his encounters with a wild beast, it just never happens.There was one unique feature to the story, Tarzan actually makes a running mount on to a giraffe to gain some speed across the African veld; that's one I haven't seen before. But the real gem of this picture had to be the appearance of Chief Tyana, who I thought from time to time while watching bore a resemblance to a young Scatman Crothers. Holy cow!, the screen credits after the film listed him as Sherman Crothers! Goes to show, you have to get your start somewhere.Not too much else to say, as others on this board have commented on how the picture was spliced together from some pilot TV episodes, and it did actually have that kind of feel to it. For example, it looked like the movie was just about over very early when Tarzan captured the first two trappers. For a Tarzan flick, I guess I would put it about the middle of the pack and that's being generous. You have to hand it to that Cheetah though (Cheta in the credits). He was twenty six years old at the time the picture was made, and didn't look a day over six!