An unusual entry in the series, Tarzan's Revenge (1938), featured Glenn Morris as Tarzan. Aside from a small role in Hold That Co-ed (1938) and a bit part in She Married an Artist (1937), Olympic athlete Morris made no other movies.
Producer Sol Lesser had previously used Buster Crabbe in Tarzan, the Fearless (1933) and was later to become the most famous Tarzan producer of all when he signed Johnny Weissmuller when both the actor and the series were foolishly dropped by M-G-M. Eleanor Holm, who displays much more personality in the "Jane" role here, was also an Olympic gold medalist (for swimming). This is her only feature film, although she did appear as herself in four or five shorts. In 1939, she married the famous Broadway producer Billy Rose (which put an end to her movie aspirations). So this shapes up as an interesting film even before we take a look at it. Top-rate support cast includes George Barbier, C. Henry Gordon and Joe Sawyer. Quite a bit of money has been spent too! Where the movie fails is that the screenwriters are too faithful to the routine characterizations and hum-drum plotting of the original Edgar Rice Burroughs novel and that D. Ross Lederman is not exactly the most sensitive or artistic of directors.
Producer Sol Lesser had previously used Buster Crabbe in Tarzan, the Fearless (1933) and was later to become the most famous Tarzan producer of all when he signed Johnny Weissmuller when both the actor and the series were foolishly dropped by M-G-M. Eleanor Holm, who displays much more personality in the "Jane" role here, was also an Olympic gold medalist (for swimming). This is her only feature film, although she did appear as herself in four or five shorts. In 1939, she married the famous Broadway producer Billy Rose (which put an end to her movie aspirations). So this shapes up as an interesting film even before we take a look at it. Top-rate support cast includes George Barbier, C. Henry Gordon and Joe Sawyer. Quite a bit of money has been spent too! Where the movie fails is that the screenwriters are too faithful to the routine characterizations and hum-drum plotting of the original Edgar Rice Burroughs novel and that D. Ross Lederman is not exactly the most sensitive or artistic of directors.