Tarzan, the handsome and strong King of the Apes, and Jane, the beautiful and sophisticated English girl, prove that social barriers disappear when hearts beat like native drums. Satisfied, Tarzan agrees to guide their departure, and sends the elephants away. By May 1933, a dialogue continuity by Howard Emmett Rogers was completed. After Arlington leaves, a hippopotamus rescues a semi-conscious Tarzan and carries him to a group of chimpanzees, which tend to him. Pre-Code April #20 While the spectre of colonialism still looms large in this film - the second of the Weissmuller Tarzan outings - this is arguably superior to the original. Betty Roth, wife of lion owner Louis Roth, doubled for O'Sullivan in some close contact scenes with lions near the film's conclusion. 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Discover some of our favorites from the wide range of films the Academy chose to honor with a recap of the big winners at the 2021 Oscars. TARZAN AND HIS MATE. Cheeta escapes and runs off to tell Tarzan. Will Tarzan allow the fiendish huntress to pillage the jungle? These early drafts toyed with the idea of a fight with a huge mechanical crocodile, and a spectacular jungle fire. It was not until Ted Turner took over the M.G.M film library that a positive print of the original film was discovered in the vaults and released in 1986. Tarzan And His Mate (287) 7.3 1 h 44 min 1934 PG. Tarzan and His Mate is a 1934 American Pre-Code action adventure film based on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. See John Taliaferro's biography of Burroughs, Media History Digital Library accessed 6th January 2015, Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Tarzan And His Mate (1934) - (Movie Clip) Did You Get Your Worm? *in some releases, see trivia section. Trailer. In 1932 M.G.M's Tarzan the Ape Man cost $652,675 to make, and took $2.54 million at the box office. Tarzan falls into the water, and Arlington thinks he has killed him. Chased by a lion, Cheeta escapes and comes upon the chimpanzee group tending to Tarzan. Tarzan and His Mate Even the 'fake' animals (some of the immediately-threatening lions, crocodiles, hippos, and 'great-apes') are effective and reasonably realistic. Iceberg (1933), co-starring Leni Riefenstahl, one of the last German-U.S co-productions, due to the rise of the Nazi Party), Murray Kinnell (The House of Rothschild), and Frank Reicher (one of 17 films he appeared in 1934). "[5][4], When M.G.M production head Irving Thalberg protested the jury's decision by claiming that the 1928 film White Shadows in the South Seas had "fifty naked women" in it, the jurors screened that film and determined that none of the women were naked. Tarzan and His Mate is a 1934 American Pre-Code action adventure film based on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Edgar Rice Burroughs Killed Jane. When Jane tries to convince Tarzan to call more elephants, she explains to him about hauling the ivory away. Add the first question. That Jane and Tarzan sleep together is all the more startling by Hollywood standards because they are not married; the end credits list O'Sullvan as Jane ‘Parker,’ emphasizing that she was single and living in sin. (Always keep in mind that this is Africa of kiddie imagination, not the real deal.) Jane kills two lions before she runs out of ammunition. Can he escape the sharp claws of the savage Leopard Woman? The film was directed by Cedric Gibbons with a screenplay written by James Kevin McGuinness, adapted from a story by Howard Emmett Rogers and Leon Gordon. Action, Certificate: Passed Tarzan's jungle home, and his family, Jane and Boy, are threatened by men greedy for gold. Because Jane was a "lady" from England (not Baltimore, as in Burroughs' novel), with manners and poise, her wearing such a provocative outfit was particularly naughty and symbolic of her sexual freedom. [2], Filming was not completed until the end of March 1934, because of re-takes and additional aerial scenes involving Jane and Tarzan. Tarzan, thinking that taking the ivory is profaning the burial ground, refuses. A clever crook and a romantic triangle complicate Tarzan's efforts to bring a wanted criminal to justice. The contest was held in conjunction with the release of the movie Tarzan and His Mate in 1934. Hyman. As Jane and the returning expedition are attacked by violent natives, we wonder if Tarzan can rescue them yet again. Needless-to-say, the movie is a product of its times. In the first sequel to Tarzan, the Ape Man, Harry Holt returns to Africa to head up a large ivory expedition. [5] However, by April 24, 1934, all prints of Tarzan and His Mate in all territories were ordered changed. Troubles arise when hapless Harry Holt (a failed bidder for Jane's attentions in the previous film) returns with his lascivious and unscrupulous partner Martin Arlington (Paul Cavanagh) intending to harvest the ivory from the sacred 'elephant's grave yard'. The roles of Tom Pierce and Van Ness were also changed, and Frank Reicher and Murray Kinnell were replaced by Desmond Roberts and William Stack, respectively.[3]. A trader and his daughter set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes. Tarzan And His Mate is listed in Volume 1 of his 3 volume series. Shortly after, a large herd of elephants arrives, trampling the lions, killing several and running the remainder off. This time he brings his womanizing friend Marlin Arlington. In its 1934 review, Variety referred to the pair as “Mr. It was the second in the Tarzan film series to star Johnny Weissmuller. Meanwhile, Cheeta has returned to Tarzan, who while still weak, sets off after Cheeta. Edgar Rice Burroughs, keen to capitalize on the success of the first film (as were M.G.M), began negotiations in March 1932 for future Tarzan films. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. When the bearer goes down on a ledge, Arlington goes out to save him, and he is attacked by a lion. Directed by Cedric Gibbons, it was the second in the Tarzan film series and starred Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan. O’Sullivan was absent for over a month recovering from an appendectomy. This and earlier script and conference ideas became the basis for the various drafts of the eventual screenplay credited to James Kevin McGuinness. His official credit on the picture was Animal Director. In the first sequel to Tarzan, the Ape Man, Harry Holt returns to Africa to head up a large ivory expedition. Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan played their roles of Tarzan and Jane pretty well and Johnny Sheffield also did his part well as Boy. The head chimpanzee applies plant sap to staunch the bleeding. Jane tells him she would rather stay with Tarzan. After being abandoned by Tarzan and Jane, Arlington and Holt lead their baggage carriers, led by Saidi, a friend of Jane and Tarzan's, to the burial ground, following the wounded elephant. As the lions become more aggressive, Tarzan and the chimpanzees arrive. Also in May, Burroughs contacted producer Bernard H. Hyman with the suggestion that Tarzan films be released as seasonal events. A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. This time he brings his womanizing friend Marlin Arlington. In September 1933, however, the Hollywood Reporter announced that Jack Conway, was to take over the direction of one of Gibbons' units. Harry Holt and his business partner Martin Arlington, leading a large party of locals, meet them on their way to take ivory from an elephant burial ground. But, is she the same person she used to be? Can Tarzan protect the vale's ultimate mystery? When Holt and Arlington show Jane some of the modern clothes and perfumes they brought from civilization, she is impressed but not enough to return. In April, Joseph Breen, director of public relations of the MPPDA, reported to his president, Will Hays, that Tarzan and His Mate had been rejected because of shots in which "the girl was shown completely in the nude. After 3 ½ weeks of shooting, the first unit was shut down; Gibbons had shot a lot of excess footage, and costs were spiraling. The film is also quite harsh and grim at times, with competing ivory hunters found tortured to death, an elephant deliberately mortally wounded to help in the search for the grave yard and, most egregiously, Martin's execution of one of the African porters for refusing to continue the expedition (with little opprobrium from Harry, who observes that the whip would have done as well). As TCM's Paul Tatara observes, “Such big-screen impropriety was virtually unheard of at the time, and the Production Code Office had a fit”. The scene as it exists today is approximately four minutes in duration. An expedition seeking to bring Jane back to civilization, and Tarzan into captivity, gets more than it's bargained for. [8] If seen at all was usually done by dancing girl extras, or non-white actresses due to the time's double standards (witness the topless "native" girls at the start of the film, or the topless "natives" in the 1935 Sanders of the River). With Jane still away for the war effort, Tarzan and Boy set off to retrieve rare medicinal herbs, only to run into an American messenger, Nazi spies, and the mysterious desert's treacherous fauna and flora. [2], A June 29, 1933 Hollywood Reporter news item announced that W. S. Van Dyke (director of the first Tarzan The Ape Man), was to be Gibbons' co-director. To equip the American zoos with as many animals as possible, a cruel trio of big-game hunters team up with an unexpected ally, threatening the African fauna. (1934). [3], The film has acquired a cult status, largely due to O’Sullivan wearing one of the most revealing costumes on screen to that time — a halter-top and a loincloth that left her thighs and hips exposed. In his review, Schwartz praised the film's action sequences, 'brisk' pacing, and cinematography. [16], The film was nominated for American Film Institute's 2002 AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions list. Tarzan and His mate (1934) James Higgins; 3/14/10; 80/100. [3], Filming on Tarzan and His Mate began August 2, 1933. In this pre-Code film, Jane sleeps in the nude, swims nude with Tarzan, is constantly touched by Tarzan, has a scene in which she is stranded in the jungle without clothes on, and is seen nude in silhouette when dressing in a well lit tent. Arlington and Holt have their baggage carriers each take a tusk from the burial ground, and they begin to head back. Seizing on that idea, Arlington shoots an elephant, mortally wounding it so that it will lead them to the burial ground. Further details may exist on the. In 2003, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. When she rises out of the water, Jane (now Maureen O’Sullivan) flashes a bare breast. Holt also harbors ideas about convincing Jane to return to London. M.G.M had spent $1,279,142 on the production. Then he looks down at her skimpy jungle outfit: "Not that I have any complaints on that score." Directed by. Both Foremost Dairies and Beatrice Creamery (Meadow Gold) were two of the known licensed producers. Tarzan and His Mate (1934) is considered the greatest of the Weissmuller-Tarzan films, even better than its predecessor - Tarzan the Ape Man (1932). Wounded, he begins to free Saidi when the lions show up and tear him and Saidi to pieces. Tarzan and His Mate is an American feature film of the adventure genre. Trapeze artists Alfred Codona and the Flying Codonas, who had performed in the first Tarzan film, also doubled for Weissmuller and O'Sullivan, and acted as the elder Cheeta. The rhino, Mary, was imported from the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg, Germany. Tarzan”. Certificate: Passed Discussions between Burroughs’ representative, Ralph Rothmund and M.G.M executives, Irving Thalberg and Sam Marx, had begun in March 1932, and a new contract was signed in May of that year for a second Tarzan feature, with an option for a further two. It's briskly paced, beautifully photographed, and features a racy swimming sequence that was censored at the time of the movie's release. In addition, he refuses to even lead them to the burial ground, now that he knows of their intent. [17], Please expand the article to include this information. One with Jane clothed in her jungle loin cloth outfit, one with her topless, and one with her in the nude. It's the second of twelve films in the Weissmüller Tarzan series, and a direct sequel to the first film, Tarzan the Ape Man.In this … The first actress to play Jane Porter was Enid Markey in Tarzan of … One of the best of all the Tarzan films, and the second one with Johnny Weissmuller. Cheeta appeared in "Tarzan the Ape Man" (1932) and "Tarzan and His Mate" (1934), starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. 4 of 4 people found this review helpful. However, shortly after the safari is confronted by a hostile tribe of "lion men", who kill two of the bearers and intend to kill the entire safari. In part responsible for the increased enforcement of the 1930 Motion Picture Production Code (aka the 'Hays code'), the film includes Martin watching Jane undress in silhouette, several bare-breasted native women, the infamous swimming scene where a completely naked* Josephine McKim (O'Sullivan's swimming stunt double) performs a sensual underwater 'ballet' with Weissmuller, and frequent shots of a ruffled and very satisfied looking (but unmarried) Jane waking up beside her jungle paramour after some treetop tryst. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Arlington returns to the group, claiming that he saw Tarzan being killed by an alligator. Tarzan wrestles every wild animal imaginable to protect Jane but when he disallows the expedition from plundering ivory from the elephant burial grounds, it is he who takes a bullet from Arlington's gun. Can Tarzan, the powerful King of the Jungle, and his trusted companions, Cheeta and Buli, save them? During the crocodile wrestling scene, a mechanical crocodile, equipped with nigrosine dye sacks to simulate blood, was used. It is also the last of pre-Hays Code Tarzans. I remember when Tarzan black and white movies played on television all the time when I was a kid. To escape from an arranged marriage to Aquatania's pagan god, a desperate maiden ends up in Tarzan's fishing net. She does agree to convince Tarzan to act as their guide. [10], In his April 21, 1934, review, Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times praised the film as “if anything, even more fantastic than its predecessor... Aside from the wild tale, this film is a marvel from a photographic standpoint...Needless to say that Miss O'Sullivan and Mr. Weissmuller acquit themselves in the same favorable fashion they did in their former hectic experiences.”[11], Hall followed up on April 29, 1934, with another New York Times piece headlined “LIFE IN THE JUNGLE—Tarzan and His Mate a Marvel of Camera Work”: “FANTASTIC as is the yarn of Tarzan and His Mate, a sequel to the highly successful Tarzan, the Ape Man, it has been produced with such marked cleverness that it affords no little fun and a full measure of excitement...A great deal of credit is due to the expert work of the camera men. When Holt rushes out to save him, he is wounded by a thrown spear. Tarzan and Jane arrive in time to save them, after which Arlington feigns repentance, promising to leave the next day without the ivory. Arlington asks Holt how they found the burial ground the first time, and Holt explains that they had followed a dying elephant. Adventure. As WWII rages on, a group of Nazi paratroopers land on the hidden city of Palandria to exploit its wealth, and they start taking hostages. Tarzan and His Mate is a 1934 American pre-Code action adventure film based on the Tarzan character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This was the second in the Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan and Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane movies. Travelling matte shots were used to depict lions leaping up and holding on to elephants, who then seized them with their trunks and hurled them down, or crushed them beneath their feet. With the lion men and the lions routed, the elephants, along with Tarzan, Jane, and Cheeta, return the ivory to the burial ground. [6] Tarzan brings breakfast to Jane in their treetop shelter. Tarzan and Jane go to New York to rescue Boy after he is kidnapped into a circus. Cedric Gibbons, Jack Conway, James C. McKay. Most Tarzan enthusiasts consider 1934's Tarzan and His Mate to be the best of the Johnny Weissmuller-Maureen O'Sullivan Tarzan efforts. [2], Special effects were to be overseen by Cedric Gibbons and executed by M.G.M's A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe, James Basevi and Irving Reis. Action, Romance, Adventure. Arlington and Holt have everything they own tied up in this venture and are frantic to continue on. Tarzan and His Mateis the second of the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films. Elephants, aware of the impending disgrace of their sacred ground, turn up in the hundreds, and threaten to exterminate Holt and Arlington's party. Tarzan and His Mate is a 1934 film directed by Cedric Gibbons, starring Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan and Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane.. [3] Tarzan rides a rhinoceros in one scene - a first for film. Tarzan and His Mate is a 1934 American pre-Code action adventure film based on the Tarzan character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan and His Mate (1934) ... Tarzan is depicted wearing his traditional loincloth while Jane appears fully nude, her costume having been torn off when Tarzan playfully tosses her from a tree to the water below. Holt also harbors ideas about convincing Jane to return to London. Tarzan wrestles every wild animal imaginable to protect Jane but when he disallows the expedition from plundering ivory from the elephant burial grounds, it is he who takes a bullet from Arlington's gun. Take a look ahead at some of our most anticipated superhero movies coming in 2021 and beyond. [2], Story conferences were held in March, with the author of the play White Cargo Leon Gordon, producer Bernie Hyman, supervising art director Cedric Gibbons, and production manager Joe Cohn. [7], The scene that caused the most commotion, the "underwater ballet" sequence, was available in three different versions that were edited by M.G.M to meet the standards of particular markets. The shots depicting the elephant's graveyard are excellent (both sad and surreal), Weissmuller and O'Sullivan have a great rapport, and, as with the previous movie in the nascent franchise, both the animal 'acting' (especially Cheeta) and the interactions between the human actors and their jungle co-stars are outstanding. McKay had received a Production Assistant credit on Trader Horn (1931) directed by W. S. Van Dyke. When Tarzan calls an elephant, Arlington gets the idea that they can use elephants as pack animals, enabling them to haul much more ivory. Great pace, always of interest, good performances and the controversial nude swimming scene. Cheeta leaves Jane and looks for Tarzan. As a spate of leopard attacks causes panic, a sceptical Tarzan joins a hunting expedition, only to face a pagan cult of Leopard-God worshippers and their fiendish High-Priestess. Tarzan and His Mate (1934) was the second, and easily the most memorable, of Weissmuller's Tarzan pictures. The bearer who was carrying the ammunition crate is killed on the way. [2] Gibbons' wife Dolores del Rio had performed a risqué nude swim in Bird of Paradise (1932), a sequence that is said to have inspired the one in Tarzan. Use the HTML below. When they find the couple, Jane refuses Holt's overtures. Gary Jackson , A direct sequel to 1932's "Tarzan the Ape Man", "Tarzan and his Mate" finds Tarzan and skimpily-attired Jane living-in-sin in the Jungle Lord's idyllic African paradise. Tarzan and His Mate (1934): Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan, legendary lovers of the silver screen, star in this epic story of jungle romance. 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