Tarzan's Savage Fury
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| Directed by | Cy Endfield |
| Produced by | Sol Lesser |
| Written by | Hans Jacoby |
| Based on | Characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| Starring |
Lex Barker Dorothy Hart Patric Knowles |
| Music by | Paul Sawtell |
| Distributed by | RKO Pictures |
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81 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Tarzan's Savage Fury is a 1952 film starring Lex Barker as Tarzan, Dorothy Hart as Jane, and Patric Knowles. The movie was directed by Cy Endfield. While most Tarzan films of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s presented Tarzan as a very different character from the one in Edgar Rice Burroughs' novels, this movie does make some allusions to the novels. It was shot in Chatsworth, California's Iverson Ranch. The film was the last to be directed by Cyril "Cy" Endfield in the US. Finding himself one of Hollywood's film-makers blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee he moved to Britain. The film was co-written by Cyril Hume, who'd contributed substantially to the "Tarzan" series back in its bigger budget MGM days.
Tarzan agrees, against his better judgement, to guide supposed British government agents Edwards and Rokov into the land of the Wazuri Tribe, to harvest uncut diamonds for national-defense purposes. But it transpires the "agents" are secretly criminals who intend to use the gems for their own sinister purposes.
The film was originally known as Tarzan, the Hunted.
The original Variety review succinctly said, "A series of unexciting jungle heroics are offered..." Recent TV guides for re-run viewers say little more – The Radio Times, "plenty of action helps the story along" ; TV Guide, film was "uninteresting and slowly paced."
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