Tarzan and the slave girl
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tarzan and the slave girl |
| Original title | Tarzan and the Slave Girl |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1950 |
| length | 73 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lee Sholem |
| script |
Hans Jacoby , Arnold Belgard |
| production | Sol Lesser |
| music | Paul Sawtell |
| camera | Russell Harlan |
| cut | Christian Nyby |
| occupation | |
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Tarzan and the Slave Girl (original title: Tarzan and the Slave Girl ) is an American adventure film by Lee Sholem from 1950. The basis for the script were the Tarzan novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs . The film premiered on June 23, 1950 in New York. In Germany, the film was shown in cinemas for the first time on November 14, 1952. The film also appeared on German television under the title Tarzan intervenes .
action
Tarzan and Jane meet a group of berry pickers from the Nagasi tribe in the jungle. When one of the women, Moana, disappears, they look for her. In the search, however, Jane also disappears. Tarzan and the chief's son hear Jane's screams and rush over. Jane is kidnapped by warriors of the lion tribe, Tarzan and his companion pursue them and free Jane. When Tarzan captures one of the warriors, he is knocked down by his companions, who flee in a boat and do not take their companions with them.
The lion man collapses in the Nagasi village. Tarzan goes to the village of Randini to get a doctor. Tarzan describes the doctor Dr. Campbell's Symptoms, who diagnosed a fatal and highly contagious fever. The doctor prepares a healing serum and, accompanied by sister Lola, lets Tarzan and the chimpanzee Cheetah take him to the Nagasi village. There he distributes the life-saving serum and prepares to accompany Tarzan to the lion warriors in order to vaccinate them as well. Lola is to stay with Jane. But the sister has fallen in love with Tarzan and cannot accept that Jane is Tarzan's mate. The two women begin to fight. Lola loses the fight and flees into the jungle. There she is also caught by the lion warriors. Jane hears Lola's cries for help, follows Lola and is caught too. Sengo, the leader of the kidnappers, is enthusiastic about Jane's capture because she left him with deep scratches when she escaped.
Tarzan and his companions encounter wadis, members of a hostile native tribe, who fight with blowguns. Some companions are killed in the fight. The survivors can escape after crossing a ravine. At the same time, Jane, Lola, Moana and seven other captured women arrive at the Lion Warrior Camp. Sengo shows the women to the chief's son, whose father died of the deadly fever. His son also has a fever. The high priest warns the chief's son that he should focus on fighting the fever. The power-hungry Sengo urges the chief's son to sentence the high priest to death. Lola, wanted by the chief's son, is beaten by Sengo. Lola gets to Sengo's knife and kills him in self-defense. Lola and Jane try to escape and hide in a crypt. The dead chief is buried there, the two women hide in the empty grave of the chief's wife. Sengo finds out where the two women are and has the crypt locked.
Tarzan and his group are led into the village by armed warriors. They pass the crypt and are spotted by Jane through a gap in the roof. She calls Tarzan's name. Dr. Campbell, who has not noticed that his serum was lost in the jungle, promises the chief's son that his son will be cured. While the doctor is being led to the son, Tarzan sneaks into the crypt and hides in the chief's coffin. Dr. Campbell notices that his serum is missing and is sentenced to death by the chief's son. His father's coffin is to be taken outside for the execution.
Neil, a companion of the group, who is injured in the leg, arrives in the village as a straggler, accompanied by Cheetah, who has found the bottle with the serum. Campbell vaccinates the son, while Tarzan frees Jane and Lola by breaking open the resealed crypt with the help of elephants. Sengo accuses Tarzan of desecration, which leads to a scuffle, because at the same time the high priest is supposed to be killed by being thrown into a lions' den. When the fight is over, all women are set free. Sengo is thrown into the lions' den by Tarzan. Tarzan and the others are called friends by the chief's son, and to Neil's surprise, Dr. Campbell Lola his love.
background
The second Tarzan adventure with Lex Barker in the title role, again directed by Lee Sholem, brings with Vanessa Brown a new actress as Jane. In Barker's five appearances as Tarzan, he had five different film partners as Jane at his side. Vanessa Brown was born in Vienna and had to flee to the USA because of her Jewish descent. Co-author Hans Jacoby came from Breslau .
Anthony Caruso was already an opponent of the jungle hero in the Weissmüller film Tarzan and the Leopard Woman. The French born Denise Darcel can be seen here in her fourth film role.
Film editor Christian Nyby became famous a year later with his directorial debut, the horror film The Thing From Another World , on which cinematographer Russell Harlan also worked. The later two-time Oscar winner Harry Horner , who, like Vanessa Brown, came from Austria and had fled the Nazis to the USA, was responsible for the production design .
Reviews
"Series-produced adventure film without great demands, amusing due to the carefree amalgamation of different 'traditions' from Ramses to Robin Hood", it says in the lexicon of international films .
German version
The German dubbed version was created in 1952 by the RKO Synchron department in Berlin.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Tarzan | Lex Barker | Horst Niendorf |
| Neil | Robert Alda | Heinz Petruo |
| Chief son | Hurd Hatfield | Friedrich Joloff |
| Dr. Campbell | Arthur Shields | Alfred Balthoff |
| Sengo | Anthony Caruso | Ernst Constantine |
| Lola | Denise Darcel | Gisela Trowe |
| High priest | Robert Warwick | Paul Wagner |
Web links
- Tarzan and the Slave Girl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Critique of Variety (English)
- International movie posters on posterdb.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tarzan and the slave girl. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See synchrondatenbank.de