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Tarzan: Silver Screen King of the Jungle

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Initial release
  
8 June 2004 (USA)

Screenplay
  
John Rust

Director
  
John Rust

Editors
  
Eric Clawson, Eric Sanford

Cast
  
Scott Tracy Griffin, Johnny Weissmuller Jr, Rudy Behlmer, Robert Osborne, John Naber

Similar
  
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Tarzan: Silver Screen King of the Jungle is a documentary focusing on the first six sound Tarzan films produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan.

Written and directed by John Rust, the documentary features interviews with film historians Rudy Behlmer and Scott Tracy Griffin, who discuss the films' literary antecedents and behind-the-scenes production details.

The documentary premiered on TBS on June 3, 2004, and was included as an extra in the DVD collection of the first six MGM Tarzan films: Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), Tarzan and His Mate (1934), Tarzan Escapes (1936), Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939), Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941), and Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942).

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Tarzan: Silver Screen King of the Jungle Wikipedia