The New Adventures of Tarzan

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Category: Action
All Genres: Action, Adventure
Release Year: 1935
Country: USA
Runtime: 257
Rating: 5.9 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Edward A. Kull Wilbur McGaugh
Sound: Mono
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The Greatest Tarzan of All Time!

Writing by: Edwin Blum - writer (as Edwin H. Blum)
Edgar Rice Burroughs - writer
Bennett Cohen - screenplay (as Ben S. Cohen)
Basil Dickey - writer
Charles F. Royal - writer (as Chas. F. Royal)

Produced by: Edgar Rice Burroughs - producer
Ashton Dearholt - producer
George W. Stout - producer

Cast: Bruce Bennett - Tarzan (as Herman Brix)
Ula Holt - Ula Vale
Ashton Dearholt - P.B. Raglan (as Don Castello)
Frank Baker - Maj. Francis Martling
Lewis Sargent - George
Harry Ernest - Gordon Hamilton [Chs. 1-4, 12]
Dale Walsh - Alice Martling [Chs. 1-4, 12]
Jiggs - Nkima the Chimp
Merrill McCormick - Bouchart [Ch. 1] / Lopez [Ch. 10]
Jack Mower - Ulas Companion [Ch. 1] / Capt. Simon Blade [Ch. 11]
Earl Dwire - Expatriate Scientist [Chs. 8-10] (uncredited)

Music: Mischa Bakaleinikoff
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Plot Outline: The Green Goddess is a totem worshiped by the primitive natives of a lost city deep in the jungles of Guatemala...
Plot: The Green Goddess is a totem worshiped by the primitive natives of a lost city deep in the jungles of Guatemala. It contains both a fortune in jewels and an ancient formula for a super-explosive which could threaten world safety in the wrong hands. From Africa, Major Martling and Ula Vale launch separate expeditions to find the Goddess and place its secrets in safe hands. Ulas fiance died in an earlier attempt at the same goal and she has taken up the trail in his memory against the advice of her lawyer, Hiram Powers, who covets the Goddess for himself and sends Raglan, a mercenary, to get it for him. Aboard their ship to Guatemala is Lord Greystoke - aka Tarzan - on a mission to find his old friend, dArnot, whose plane crashed in the vicinity of the same lost city. Tarzan joins forces with Martling, and they reach the lost city in time to save dArnot, but lose the Goddess to Raglan. Ula joins Tarzan and Martling in pursuit of Raglan, whence they must contend with the perils of the jungle, Raglans henchmen, and a party of primitives from the lost city sent to retrieve the Goddess...

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
A chorus of females dance and sing "No Woman No Cry" during much of the end credits.

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: DArnots plane is a two-seater, but both Bouchart and David Brent are supposed to have been with him in it on the flight when it crashed.

Trivia: There are 4 entries in the trivia list - like these:
The original story for this serial featured munitions runners, Alice and Gordon mistaken for spies and pursued by the Guatemalan police, and Ula Vale as a mysterious figure revealed in the final episode to be an undercover government operative. The script was rewritten during production and these elements dropped. However, the original treatment was used for the pressbook synopsis and the original chapter titles were retained despite lacking relevance any longer (e.g. "Operative 17" as the final chapter). Virtually all Tarzan/serial film "historians" continue to refer to the pressbook synopsis, also, instead of watching the serial, and thus fail to accurately present the story that was finally filmed. Caveat emptor.
Tarzans chimpanzee is called "Nkima" (not "Cheetah"), true to the Edgar Rice Burroughs books.
Urban legend has it that the sound quality was so poor that the actors had to be re-dubbed for theatrical release or TV. In fact, the only re-dubbing done was on the 59-minute British reissue print of the feature version, for reasons unknown. A disclaimer was inserted into the credits of this version claiming that the soundtrack had been affected by "variable atmospheric conditions" in 1935 Guatemala, where parts of the serial were shot. In fact, the bad soundtrack was the result of the cheap equipment used on the British re-dub - (see The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935/II)). No such disclaimer ever appeared on the serial release prints original titles, and the originally-recorded 1935 soundtrack is being heard there as well as in the second feature version Tarzan and the Green Goddess (1938).