***SPOILERS*** Lex Barker in his final role as Tarzan the Ape Man is kidnapped and tortured by a gang of Ivory poacher's lead by She-Devil Lyra, Monique Van Vooren, and held hostage by them. That's until he can bellow out his famous bull elephant, not ape, call to get the local heard of elephants to meekly get into line to have their precious ivory tusks amputated by the pouches. It's after Tarzan's luxury's tree-house, that didn't have fire insurance, in the jungle was burned down by the pouches with his wife Jayne, Joyce Mackenzie, and pet monkey Cheetah possibly perishing in the flames Tarzan felt that he had nothing to live for. And even welcomed death at the hands of his kidnappers lead by a whale like Vargo, Raymond Burr, who tried to get him to play along, by getting the elephants to turn themselves in, with them.
It's when both Jane and Cheetah showed up alive that Tarzan agreed to give the bull elephant call only to have the elephants stampeded their intended killers into chopped meat not go quietly to their death. With Vargo getting the worst of it being crushed alive when the roof, of his headquarters, came crushing down on him. As for She-Devil Lyra she ended up getting hers not from the stampeding elephants but from her wimpy butter-fingered husband Fidel, Tom Conway,who in trying to prevent from getting trampled shot her , by accident, instead before the charging and out of control elephants did a number on him.
Raymond Burr just back after staring in his last jungle film "Bride of the Gorilla" where he played the gorilla was excellent here as Vergo the 275 pound heavy who liked to throw his weight around and ended up getting a lot more weight, in being trampled to death, thrown at him instead. It was 4 years later after shedding some 75 to 100 pounds that a slimmed down looking Burr got the role as TV's Perry Mason that not only turned him, who up until then was always playing villains, not only into a good guy but also a TV icon and legend as well.
It's when both Jane and Cheetah showed up alive that Tarzan agreed to give the bull elephant call only to have the elephants stampeded their intended killers into chopped meat not go quietly to their death. With Vargo getting the worst of it being crushed alive when the roof, of his headquarters, came crushing down on him. As for She-Devil Lyra she ended up getting hers not from the stampeding elephants but from her wimpy butter-fingered husband Fidel, Tom Conway,who in trying to prevent from getting trampled shot her , by accident, instead before the charging and out of control elephants did a number on him.
Raymond Burr just back after staring in his last jungle film "Bride of the Gorilla" where he played the gorilla was excellent here as Vergo the 275 pound heavy who liked to throw his weight around and ended up getting a lot more weight, in being trampled to death, thrown at him instead. It was 4 years later after shedding some 75 to 100 pounds that a slimmed down looking Burr got the role as TV's Perry Mason that not only turned him, who up until then was always playing villains, not only into a good guy but also a TV icon and legend as well.