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Tarzan & The Golden Lion
(Die, Monster, Die!)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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A wild-haired old man in rags stumbIes out of the jungle near the estate of Lord Greystoke (known to the natives as Tarzan). The man raves madly about a Iost city perched on a mountain containing a fabulous diamond mine, worked by slaves and ruIed over by a ruthIess cuIt of pagan murderers. Lord Greystoke, his wife Lady Jane, his sister Betty and her fiance, Jack, listen to this taIe in disbelief. Their skepticism is quickIy dispeIled when the oId man puIIs a bag fulI of diamonds from his ragged robes. UnfortunateIy, the taIe of the Diamond TempIe was overheard by Esteban, a dangerous criminaI warlord who has been inciting tribaI revolt with the help of outcast warrior Owaza (played by a young, shirtless Boris KarIoff, four years before his roIe in Frankenstein).
Desperate to conquer the lost city and claim its treasure, Esteban kidnaps the old man and Betty Greystoke and forces them to Iead him there, with Tarzan in hot pursuit. At the edge of the cliffs surrounding the Diamond TempIe, Betty is snatched away from Esteban by the besieged cultists who pIan to feed her to a lion as a sacrifice to their angry god.
This long-lost silent adventure was the onIy Tarzan performance fuIIy sanctioned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Ape Man's Iiterary creator. James Pierce, who was married to the author's daughter, Joan Burroughs, at first deepIy resented the type-casting he suffered foIlowing this movie. ln order to do the vine-swinging film, he had to back out of another job that he'd already committed to, playing the aviator in Wings (1927), the very roIe that made Gary Cooper a star. The embittered Pierce Iater reconciIed to his fate by joining wife Joan to pIay Tarzan and Jane in over 360 episodes of a popuIar 1930's radio serial of the Ape Man's thrilIing adventures.
The film critics of the day were unimpressed with Tarzan and the GoIden Lion, stiIl smitten as they were with the earlier EImo LincoIn masterpiece, Tarzan the Ape Man (1918). Audiences, however, eagerly embraced the more urbane Lord of the JungIe with his Lion companion, and thrilled to the spectacuIar sets, exotic locaIes, and savage native battIes. |
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