Tarzan and his son

Movie
German title	Tarzan and his son
Original title	Tarzan Finds a Son!
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1939
length	88 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Richard Thorpe
script	Cyril Hume
production	Sam Zimbalist
music	William ax
camera	Leonard Smith
cut	Gene Ruggiero , Frank Sullivan
occupation
Johnny Weissmüller : Tarzan Maureen O'Sullivan : Jane Johnny Sheffield : Boy Ian Hunter : Austin Lancing Henry Stephenson : Sir Thomas Lancing Frieda Inescort : Mrs. Lancing Henry Wilcoxon : Mr. Sande Morton Lowry : Richard Lancing Laraine Day : Richard's wife Gavin Muir : the pilot
synchronization
chronology
←  Predecessor Tarzan's Revenge Successor  → Tarzan's secret treasure

Tarzan and his son (original title: Tarzan Finds a Son! ) Is an American adventure film by Richard Thorpe from 1939. The basis for the script were the Tarzan novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs . The film premiered on June 16, 1939. In Germany, the film was first shown in cinemas on May 4, 1950.

action

Richard Lancing, his wife and the pilot are killed in a failed emergency landing in the African jungle. The only survivor is Lancing's son, who is found and "adopted" by Tarzan and Jane. They call the boy boy.

Five years later, Sir Thomas Lancing goes looking for his relatives. The safari under his direction finds the plane wreck, which spurs Sir Thomas on to continue searching. His cousin Austin, who would benefit from Richard's proven death, wants to thwart that. Austin and Thomas meet Tarzan and Jane, who explain to them that there were no survivors in the crash. Thomas is not convinced by the family resemblance Boys with the Lancings. Austin's wife suggests employing the boy as a servant to control the expected inheritance. Thomas agrees with the plan. Austin tells him to get Jane to hand over the boy. Tarzan is against the agreement, but is betrayed by Jane, who lures him into a grotto.

Jane leads the safari through the jungle until she is made aware of Austin's real plan by Thomas, who has gotten scruples. Before Thomas can call Tarzan to help, Austin kills him. When the safari is caught by cannibals, Jane puts her life on the line to enable Boy to escape. Boy returns and frees Tarzan from the grotto. Tarzan attacks the cannibal village with a herd of elephants. He saves the badly wounded Jane and forgives her.

background

The MGM production is the fourth Tarzan film with Johnny Weissmüller and Maureen O'Sullivan , who then wanted to give up her role as Jane. According to the original script, Jane was supposed to die because O'Sullivan no longer felt like playing Jane. But fan protests meant that the script was rewritten at the last minute, and Jane survived her wounding. This also changed O'Sullivan's mind, who then carried on.

Johnny Sheffield made his film debut here. He portrayed Boy seven more times. For the swimming scenes he was personally instructed in swimming by swimming Olympic champion Weissmüller.

Producer Sam Zimbalist was posthumously honored with an Oscar for Ben Hur in 1960 , and he died while filming. The staff also included the film editor Gene Ruggiero (Oscar 1957), art director Cedric Gibbons (a total of eleven Oscars) and his colleague Urie McCleary (Oscars 1942 and 1971) and sound engineer Douglas Shearer (seven Oscars).

Reviews

“Naively entertaining adventure film with maudlin interludes, impressive animal shots and a rather amusing jungle family idyll”, so the lexicon of the international film . For Cinema , Tarzan and his son were "[e] in a charming family film".

German versions

A first German dubbed version was created in 1950 in the MGM synchronization studio in Berlin. In 1981 ZDF commissioned another dubbing from Arena Synchron GmbH Berlin, which was realized under the dubbing direction and based on the dialogue book by Franz-Otto Krüger .

role	actor	Voice actor 1950	Voice actor 1981
Tarzan	Johnny Weissmüller	Wilhelm Borchert	Wolfgang Pampel
Jane	Maureen O'Sullivan	Elisabeth Ried	Almut Eggert
boy	Johnny Sheffield	-	René Thamke
Austin Lancing	Ian Hunter	Axel Monjé	Lothar Blumhagen
Sir Thomas Lancing	Henry Stephenson	Otto Stoeckel	Franz-Otto Kruger
Mrs. Lancing	Frieda Inescort	-	Bettina Schön
Mr. Sande	Henry Wilcoxon	Peter Petersz	Jürgen Thormann
Richard's wife	Laraine Day	-	Brigitte Grothum

Web links

• Tarzan and his son in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Critique of Variety (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tarzan and his son. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 25, 2017 .  
2. ↑ See cinema.de
3. ↑ See Synchronization 1950 on synchrondatenbank.de
4. ↑ See Synchronization 1981 on synchrondatenbank.de