Tarzan the Mighty
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Duration Country United States | 5.8/10 IMDb Genre Action, Adventure Distributor Universal Studios Language Silent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date October 29, 1928 (1928-10-29) Genres Silent film, Action Film, Adventure Film, Black-and-white Cast Similar movies Related Ray Taylor movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tarzan the Mighty is a 1928 American action film serial directed by Jack Nelson and Ray Taylor. It was nominally based on the collection Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The film is now considered to be lost.
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Production
After the failure of Tarzan and the Golden Lion, starring "Big Jim" Pierce, FBO did not make a sequel. Universal paid Burroughs an undisclosed sum to make a new Tarzan serial based on Jungle Tales of Tarzan. This serial was later re-titled Tarzan the Mighty.
Merill, who was the National Gymnastics champion from 1916 to 1918, came up with the vine-swinging technique. Merrill actually swung on a "vine" (a rope) with Kingston in one arm. The footage was later studied by MGM for Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) and the subsequent series of Tarzan films with Johnny Weissmuller.
Production began on 12 April and finished on 28 October 1928 The serial was originally intended to be 12 chapters long but it was so successful that it was extended to 15 chapters in length. Tarzan the Mighty was successful enough for a sequel, Tarzan the Tiger, to be put into production with many of the cast returning (in slightly different roles in some cases).
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