Tarzan by the great river
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tarzan by the great river |
| Original title | Tarzan and the Great River |
| Country of production | USA , Switzerland |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert Day |
| script | Bob Barbash |
| production | Sy Weintraub |
| music | William Loose |
| camera | Irving Lippman |
| cut |
Anthony Carras , Edward Mann , James Nelson |
| occupation | |
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Tarzan on the Great River (original title: Tarzan and the Great River ) is a 1967 adventure film by Robert Day based on the Tarzan stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs . The film, which was made as a co-production between the United States and Switzerland , is the second of three Tarzan adventures with former professional football player Mike Henry in the title role.
action
Tarzan, on a visit to Rio de Janeiro , learns that the tribal chief Barcuma, a follower of the leopard cult, is terrorizing villages along the Amazon and forcing their indigenous people to do slave labor. When Tarzan's friend and host is murdered by Barcuma's men, Tarzan goes in search of Barcuma with the chimpanzee Cheetah and the lion Baron.
In the Amazon he met Sam Bishop, the owner of a small barge. Bishop's henchman is Pepe, a young native of the Marakeet tribe. Bishop agrees to take Tarzan to Calebah, where he is supposed to deliver medicines. However, the village of Calebah has been attacked and destroyed by leopard men. Tarzan and Bishop find the distraught doctor Dr. Ann Phillips to receive the medication. When the doctor has recovered, she wants to take the drugs to the Marakeet to prevent an epidemic.
The chief of the Marakeet denied Dr. Phillips given permission to vaccinate the tribe members. But when Pepe voluntarily undergoes the vaccination, the natives see that the vaccination does no harm. You now agree to be vaccinated. Tarzan now moves on to find Barcuma. He finds the hiding place of the leopard men who let their slaves dig for diamonds. A fight ensues between Tarzan and Barcuma, in which Tarzan wins. The death of Barcuma causes the leopard cult to collapse. Bishop, Dr. Phillips and Pepe return to civilization, while Tarzan wants to stay in the jungle for a while.
background
The production was shot by Paramount Pictures , Banner Productions and Allfin AG in Brazil .
The role of Tarzan's opponent Barcuna was taken on by the 1960 Olympic champion in the decathlon , Rafer Johnson, who also played a role in the third Tarzan adventure with Mike Henry, Tarzan and the jungle boy .
The film premiered in September 1967. In Germany it first appeared in cinemas on July 9, 1968.
Reviews
"Beautifully photographed [...] ordinary story, often written inappropriately," said Variety . For the lexicon of international film, it was a “naive jungle adventure that only has the sets in common with the classic Burroughs figure; Staged with no talent, with some atrocities that are clear for the time it was made ”.
Compared to the older Tarzan films, Tarzan by the great river is “a very gentle and occasionally boring offshoot that is best enjoyed in the usual scenes with all sorts of helping animals,” said the Protestant film observer , who went on mockingly: “If you don't fear "Children would be mistaken in their school knowledge due to the geographically impossible hodgepodge of animals (lions and hippos in South America!), If the otherwise relatively inexpensive film can be accepted from the age of 12."
German version
The German dubbed version was created in 1967 by Berliner Synchron GmbH under the dubbing direction of Dietmar Behnke based on the dialog book by Bodo Francke .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Tarzan | Mike Henry | Edgar Ott |
| Sam Bishop | Jan Murray | Arnold Marquis |
| Dr. Ann Phillips | Diana Millay | Renate Danz |
| Barcuma | Rafer Johnson | Günter Briner |
| Pepe | Manuel Padilla Jr. | Stefan Sczodrok |
| Tarzan's friend | Paulo Gracindo | Kurt Waitzmann |
Web links
- Tarzan and the Great River in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ "Beautifully photographed [...] strictly run of the mill in story content, often clumsily scripted." Cf. Tarzan and the Great River . In Variety , 1967. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
- ↑ Tarzan by the great river. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Protestant film observer . Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 320/1968.
- ↑ See synchrondatenbank.de