Sorry, this movie sucks

Blistering performances.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Blistering performances.

The Turner classic version is not the one I remember watching on Saturday mornings as a child but it's just as wonderful, even better! This one includes a nude scene of Tarzan and Jane swimming in the Amazon river! This movie is so ridiculous and so delightful with Tarzan being better than a superhero. Back in the days when women could be "fiercely independent" as well as completely dependent LOL Jand is wonderful and flirtatious. Tarzan is all man ;-). So silly but so great

Anything with Johnny Weissmueller as Tarzan doesn't disappoint and that includes when he first appeared and all things subsequent to that. He was and is the definitive Tarzan even though his character, story lines and adventures can be flawed and dated. It doesn't matter because the spirit of it all is captured quite nicely allowing the imaginations of the viewing audience to do the rest. Normally I would object to the Director taking this approach but back then it helped capture the audience and hold them making them come back for more. I was amazed to see so little clothing on Jane in this film no doubt making it a must see more than once back in the day LOL. Of course today, they have taken nudity to ho-hum heights even perverting it where it becomes distracting and tactless and not entertaining so much. To me, it cheapens the movie going experience and sells short both the viewer and actors. As to the animals in this movie, they religiously obey Tarzan and are literally at his beck & call. He watches over them and they reciprocate quite nicely. In Tarzans element, he is fearless and he should be for nothing in his world threatens him. That's why he hates guns as they allow inferior men to compete in the world of real men. They have a Tarzan collection of all of Johnny's films of which I own and highly recommend too. BTW...he took some of his money and built himself a nice little home with a swimming pool that circles the property. Pictures can be scene online if searched. Man that must have been fun to say the least. Recommend a meal or snack while watching with a tasty drink for maximum enjoyment. Let your inner Tarzan (or Jane) out to play....

It shouldn't be better than the original, "Tarzan the Ape Man." So few sequels are. But -- like "The Bride of Frankenstein," "The Godfather Part II", and a few others -- it's pretty close.The plot is similar to the original and just as silly. Two white men organize a safari to recover ivory from the elephant's graveyard. They run into Tarzan (Weismuller) and his mate (O'Sullivan) living in sin in their tree house. "Oh, it doesn't take Tarzan long to build a tree house. We have a mansion in every glade." They overcome countless dangers. There are attacks by gorillas, by lions, by a rhinoceros, by crocodile, and by superstitious hostile native tribes -- the Gowanus, the Weehawken, the Pacino, the Scorseses and the Deniro. The white folks all survive until the end. However, with each attack, half the native bearers are killed off screaming. But, as in one of Zeno's paradoxes, each time half is killed, there's still half of them left. It's a brutal movie. The lions really seem to be eating the men, and I'm certain that two or three of the lions were actually shot and killed for the movie.Still, it does have its redeeming qualities. Never before or after was Maureen O'Sullivan to wear such a skimpy bustier and loincloth. And when she goes swimming with Tarzan she wears nothing at all. I thought it was a very tasteful and artistic touch.Tarzan has learned more of the Tarmangani language for this production, just as Frankenstein's monster did over at Universal. He hasn't learned to smile yet but when he learns of the white men's goal -- the retrieval of all that ivory from the elephant graveyard -- he's adamant. "Malawi sleep!", he exclaims.The viewer isn't likely to sleep though. There's too much action, too much swinging through the trees and, if nothing else, too much loud yodeling from both Tarzan and his mate.

Harry Holt (Neil Hamilton) decides to return to the African jungle on a safari to secure the tusks in the elephant graveyard, along with a partner, Martin Arlington (Paul Cavanaugh) and 50 slaves. Martin loves women and has spent everything he had to support the safari, so the ivory is top priority but he's more than a bit interested in Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) when she and Tarzan show up to help guide them to the elephant graveyard (not knowing their plans to rape the bones of the dead elephants, the graveyard a sacred place he respects wholeheartedly). When Tarzan learns from Jane what Harry and Martin's true intentions are, he'll not carry them all the way; Martin, desperate, shoots an elephant, the expedition following the wounded animal to the graveyard. Tarzan, though, has a whole fleet of elephants at his disposal, using them to charge upon Harry and Martin's men, who have tusks in hand, not allowing them to carry off what belongs in the graveyard. So Martin will see no alternative than to get rid of the nuisance standing in the way of a fortune, Tarzan.Plenty of eyepopping Pre-Code moments such as Jane's animal skins bikini, her underwater naked swim with Tarzan, the hinting of adultery between Martin and a rich man's wife on the boat ride into Africa, Martin's sexual innuendo with Jane, the tent silhouette of a naked Jane trying on a dress Holt bought for her as a gift to wear (hoping to convince her to come back with him to England), some stunning savagery by two sets of heathen tribes (the regular cannibal tribe Gibonas show up again to take out some of Harry and Martin's men with spears; they also butcher another nefarious duo of white American hunters who stole Harry's map to the elephant graveyard and took some of his slaves), one particular tribe hunt and eat lions (using one of Harry's men as bait for the lions who follow the sound of their horns blowing loudly), with Tarzan using his knife on save missions to kill a crocodile attempting a death roll (actually knocking Jane across the head with its tale, her remarkably able to recover from such a blow), a rhino rumbling towards Jane (and killing Cheetah (the older Cheetah, which is a man in a costume), and a lion (that also threatens Jane).I've used lots of descriptions for O'Sullivan in the past for my user reviews regarding two other Tarzan movies, but in this film she's just plain sexy. This movie goes out of its way to point out just how sexy Maureen is; three men covet her, and it is understandable why. She has lots of qualities, besides her beauty, such as class, courage, vibrant personality, intelligence, resourcefulness, and loyalty to the man she loves. Like in other Tarzan movies, there are those outsiders who want to "take Jane back to a civilized world", and while she does have a hankering to return, we see that she is content living in the jungle. Also, the jungle is both presented at times as idyllic and dangerous. There is *always* a threat; see the different times Cheetah, the younger orangutan, has to evade the pursuit of a tiger or lion (or rhino). Jane is the very definition of "damsel in distress", although, to her credit, she defends herself the best she can (see her at the end, using flames to ward off a lion and tiger drawing closer to her) until her hunky hero in the loin cloth arrives, knife from sheath to the rescue. Plenty of jungle adventure and suspenseful ordeals for Tarzan and Jane in "Tarzan and His Mate". As expected, Martin cannot just shoot Tarzan, lie to Jane that he saw her man losing a battle with a crocodile, and go unharmed for his misdeeds. As far as unpredictable delights, you have Cheetah riding an ostrich, a hippo carrying a wounded Tarzan to shore from the river where he landed after being shot, and angry apes (men in costumes) hurling boulders at Harry's men as they were climbing up the mountain barrier, Mutia Encarpment.