Tarzan conquers India
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tarzan conquers India |
| Original title | Tarzan Goes to India |
| Country of production | USA , Switzerland , Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Guillermin |
| script |
Robert Hardy Andrews , John Guillermin |
| production | Sy Weintraub |
| music | Ken Jones |
| camera | Paul Beeson |
| cut | Max Benedict |
| occupation | |
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Tarzan Conquers India (original title: Tarzan Goes to India ) is an adventure film by John Guillermin from 1962 based on the Tarzan stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs . The film was made in a US-British-Swiss co-production.
action
A dying Maharadjah called Tarzan to India. There he is supposed to save a herd of elephants that are in danger of drowning in the flooded valley due to the construction of a dam. Tarzan's rescue attempts are sabotaged by the project leader O'Hara, who does not tolerate any delay, and Bryce, an old adversary of Tarzan.
Princess Kamara, the daughter of the Maharajah, supports Tarzan. The elephant driver Jai with his elephant Gajendra and the engineer Ragu Kuma also assist Tarzan. After Gajendra kills a maddened elephant, he protects Jai by attacking Bryce and killing him too. Tarzan and the others can get the threatened elephants to safety by guiding them through a pass. The dam is damaged by the flight of the elephants. Tarzan and his helpers accept their responsibility for the damage and repair the damage with the help of the rescued elephants.
background
The film locations were Chennai and Mysore in India as well as Wat Phra Phutthabat , the "Great Royal Temple with the Footprint of the Buddha" in central Thailand .
Jock Mahoney was hired by producer Weintraub to replace Gordon Scott , who went to Italy and enjoyed success in adventure and sandal films. Mahoney already played in Scott's last Tarzan adventure, Tarzan, the mighty . Mahoney was also seen in four episodes of the 1966 to 1969 television series Tarzan with Ron Ely in the title role. Mahoney himself played Tarzan twice, in this film and in the follow-up Tarzan's death duel (1963).
The film premiered in the United States in July 1962. In Germany it first appeared in cinemas on January 25, 1963.
Reviews
"Solid and relatively elaborately staged 'Tarzan' adventure with well-photographed animal and landscape shots", so the lexicon of the international film . For Cinema , the film was simply "[s] tereotypical". According to Variety , the name of the jungle hero is "the same, but the character is copied". The "far-reaching attraction of the original primitive ape-man [...] will never be duplicated by the eloquent, domesticated and business-like descendant of the jet age".
German version
The German dubbed version was created in 1962 in the MGM synchronization studio in Berlin.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Tarzan | Jock Mahoney | Horst Niendorf |
| Bryce | Leo Gordon | Martin Hirthe |
| O'Hara | Mark Dana | Arnold Marquis |
| Ragu Kumar | Feroz Khan | Joachim Pukass |
| Princess Kamara | Simi Garewal | Anneliese Prichert |
| Maharajah | Murad | Eduard Wandrey |
Web links
- Tarzan Goes to India in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Tarzan conquers India. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 25, 2019 .
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ^ "Name's the same, but the character is counterfeit. Widespread appeal of the original primitive ape man will never be duplicated by his jet age descendant, an articulate, subdued, businesslike troubleshooter in the jungles of the world. "Cf. Tarzan Goes to India . In Variety , 1962, accessed on May 25 of 2019.
- ↑ See synchrondatenbank.de