Tarzan and the Lost Safari
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Director H. Bruce Humberstone Prequel Tarzans Hidden Jungle Duration Country United States | 5.8/10 IMDb Genre Action, Adventure Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date April 12, 1957 (1957-04-12) Cast (Tarzan), (Tusker Hawkins), (Gamage Dean), (Diana Penrod), ('Doodles' Fletcher (as Wilfrid Hyde White)), (Carl Kraski) Similar movies Tarzan's Desert Mystery , Tarzan and the Huntress , Shame of the Jungle , King of the Jungle , The New Adventures of Tarzan , Tarzan in the City Tagline All New And The Greatest Of All ! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tarzan and the lost safari
Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957) is an action adventure film featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous jungle hero Tarzan and starring Gordon Scott, Robert Beatty, Yolande Donlan and Betta St. John. The movie was directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, and was the first Tarzan movie released in color, Eastman Color. It was also MGM's first Tarzan film since 1942 and filmed in Nairobi, British East Africa. The character of Jane does not appear in this motion picture.
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Plot
An airplane crashes in the jungle, stranding passengers Gamage Dean (Yolande Donlan), Diana Penrod (Betta St. John), "Doodles" Fletcher (Wilfrid Hyde-White), Carl Kraski (George Coulouris), and Dick Penrod (Peter Arne). Before the plane slides into a gorge the group is rescued by Tarzan (Gordon Scott), who undertakes to lead them back to civilization.
Diana is kidnapped by warriors from Opar under Chief Ogonooro (Orlando Martins). The Oparians desire the strangers as sacrifices for their lion god. She is recovered by Tarzan and hunter Tusker Hawkins (Robert Beatty), whose advances Diana rebuffs. Secretly, however, Hawkins is in league with the Oparians, and plans to sell the castaways to the natives for a fortune in ivory.
Tarzan, rightly suspecting Hawkins' untrustworthiness, exposes his treachery. Now openly in league with the natives, the hunter helps them take the white party captive in Tarzan's absence. The ape man returns to save them before the sacrifice can take place, aided by his chimpanzee ally Cheeta, who sets fire to the native village. He then leads them to the safety of a nearby settlement.
Hawkins meets his fate at the hands of the Oparians, to whom Tarzan has signaled the villain's double-dealing by a creative use of jungle drums.
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Reception
According to MGM records the film earned $915,000 in the US and Canada and $1.4 million elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $432,000.
References
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