Tarzan's secret treasure

Movie
German title	Tarzan's secret treasure
Original title	Tarzan's Secret Treasure
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1941
length	85 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Richard Thorpe
script	Myles Connolly , Paul Gangelin
production	BP Fineman
music	David Snell
camera	Clyde De Vinna
cut	Gene Ruggiero
occupation
Johnny Weissmüller : Tarzan Maureen O'Sullivan : Jane Johnny Sheffield : Boy Reginald Owen : Prof. Elliott Barry Fitzgerald : O'Doul Tom Conway : Medford Philip Dorn : Vandermeer Cordell Hickman : Tumbo
synchronization
chronology
←  Predecessor Tarzan and his son Successor  → Tarzan's Adventures in New York

Tarzan's Secret Treasure (original title: Tarzan's Secret Treasure ) is an American adventure film directed by Richard Thorpe from 1941. The script was based on the Tarzan novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs . The film premiered on December 1, 1941. In Germany, the film was first shown in cinemas on August 4, 1961.

action

Boy, Tarzan's and Jane's adopted son, finds gold pieces in a river. Jane then tells him about civilization, which makes him curious. With his little elephant Buli and the chimpanzee Cheetah , Boy sets out to investigate. On his journey he meets the native boy Tumbo. Both can escape a mad rhinoceros. The boy's mother dies of a fever in Tumbo's village. When the tribal warriors discover the white boy, they believe that he is the cause of the deadly fever and want to kill him.

At that moment a truck with armed men arrives in the village, which Boy liberates. A fight ensues in which Tarzan, who is looking for his son, intervenes. The men are part of a scientific expedition led by Professor Elliott, who is looking for an ancient tribe. On the way to Tarzan and Jane's tree house, Boy shows two scientists, Vandermeer and Medford, a piece of gold and tells them that there is more of it in the river.

In the evening, the photographer from the O'Doul expedition shows a film about airplanes. Boy is thrilled, Medford promises him a flight if he shows him the gold. The professor intervenes because he does not want to destroy the homeland of Tarzan, Jane and Boy. The next morning Boy leads Vandermeer and Medford to the site. He tells them that his father knows a mountain full of gold. Tarzan and Jane come to the river, Tarzan tells the men to leave.

At camp, Elliott promises to leave soon. O'Doul falls ill with a fever, but Tarzan's jungle medicine heals him. Boy and the professor get sick too. Medford destroys Elliott's medicine bottle when he too collapses in a delirium. He tells Jane that better medicine is in the main camp. Tarzan does not want to leave the sick, but is convinced by Jane and Medford to get the medicine. When Tarzan returns, Medford tells him that the professor has died, Jane and Boy are in hiding and would be released if Tarzan showed him the Goldberg. Tarzan leads him there, Medford tells him where his family is. But when Tarzan tries to pull out with a swing on a vine, Medford shoots him.

At the camp, O'Doul pretends to partner with Medford and Vandermeer. On the way back they want to cross the dangerous tribal area of ​​the Jaconi. Tumbo and Cheetah tried to secretly follow Tarzan. You're trying to get O'Doul's attention. Together they can sneak away and look for Tarzan. Medford and his group are meanwhile attacked by the Jaconi. The porters are killed, and Medford and the other survivors are captured by them.

O'Doul and Tumbo find the unconscious Tarzan. When he wakes up, the photographer tells him where to find Jane and Boy. Tarzan rushes to the Jaconi who have fled across the river with their prisoners in canoes. Tarzan reaches the natives and capsizes a canoe. He fights a crocodile that attacks his son who has fallen into the water. Tarzan summons a herd of elephants, which the Jaconi put to flight. Medford and Vandermeer's canoes capsize, both are killed by a crocodile. With Boy and the rescued Jane, Tarzan returns to his tree house. There he gives O'Doul, who wants to return to his home country, a belt filled with gold.

background

The fifth Tarzan film with Johnny Weissmüller and Maureen O'Sullivan was shot in Florida, among others.

Barry Fitzgerald, a born Irishman, won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1945. Philip Dorn was a native Dutchman who also starred in German films as Frits van Dongen in the 1930s .

Richard Thorpe directed a Tarzan film with Weissmüller for the third time. A year later he made a fourth and last film in the series. Other members of the film crew were the set designer Edwin B. Willis , who would later win eight Oscars, the art director Cedric Gibbons , who won eleven Oscars, sound engineer Douglas Shearer , who won seven Oscars, and special effects designer Warren Newcombe (later two Oscars) and cinematographer Clyde De Vinna , who had already won an Oscar in 1930.

Reviews

For the lexicon of international films , the film was "an aive adventure in the 'Tarzan' series with the usual separation of good and bad". The film provides the viewer "with the well-known jungle jokes and some animal scenes [...] undemanding entertainment". Cinema called Tarzan's secret treasure simply "mediocre".

German version

A German dubbed version was created in 1981 on behalf of ZDF at Arena Synchron GmbH Berlin under the dubbing direction and based on the dialogue book by Franz-Otto Krüger .

role	actor	Voice actor
Tarzan	Johnny Weissmüller	Wolfgang Pampel
Jane	Maureen O'Sullivan	Almut Eggert
boy	Johnny Sheffield	René Thamke
Prof. Elliott	Reginald Owen	Friedrich W. Building School
O'Doul	Barry Fitzgerald	Wolfgang Völz
Medford	Tom Conway	Randolf Kronberg
Vandermeer	Philip Dorn	Friedhelm Ptok
Tumbo	Cordell Hickman	Patric Tavanti

Web links

• Tarzan's Secret Treasure in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Critique of Variety (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tarzan's secret treasure. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ See cinema.de
3. ↑ See synchrondatenbank.de