"Actor: Johnny Weissmuller"

• The Johnny Weismuller Tarzan Collection | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £47.99   |  Saving you £-12.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £35.99

  Tarzan The Apeman (Dir. W.S. Van Dyke) 1932: James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds that will provide enough ivory to make them rich. Parker's beautiful young daughter Jane arrives unexpectedly to join them. Harry is obviously attracted to Jane and he does his best to help protect her from all the dangers that they experience in the jungle. Jane is terrified when Tarzan and his ape friends first abduct her but when she returns to her father's expedition she has second thoughts about leaving Tarzan. After the expedition is captured by a tribe of violent dwarfs Jane sends Cheetah to bring Tarzan to rescue them... Tarzan And His Mate (Dir. Cedric Gibbons 1934): In the first sequel to Tarzan the Ape Man Harry Holt returns to Africa to head up a large ivory expedition. This time he brings his womanizing friend Marlin Arlington. Holt also harbors ideas about convincing Jane to return to London. 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. 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. Jane eventually believes that Tarzan is dead but he is nursed back to health by the apes. As Jane and the returning expedition are attacked by violent natives we wonder if Tarzan can rescue them yet again. Tarzan Escapes (Dir. Richard Thorpe 1936): White hunter Captain Fry tries to take Tarzan back to civilization caged for public display. He arrives in the jungle with Jane's cousins Eric and Rita who want Jane's help in claiming a fortune left her. Tarzan Finds A Son (Dir. Richard Thorpe 1939): A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name him Boy and raise him as their own. Five years later a search party comes to find the young heir to millions of dollars. Jane agrees against Tarzan's will to lead them to civilization. Tarzan's Secret Treasure (Dir. Richard Thorpe 1941): A scientific expedition happens to discover that gold exits on Tarzan's escarpment. The villainous Medford and Vandermeer kidnap Jane and Boy to extort from Tarzan the location of the gold. Everyone is captured by wicked natives. Tarzan and his elephants rush to the rescue. Tarzan's New York Adventure (Dir. Richard Thorpe 1942): Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and Jane follow them to New York. At a trial over custody of Boy Tarzan becomes violent and is jailed. With the help of the pilot's girlfriend Tarzan (who has since escaped diving off the Brooklyn Bridge) finds the circus. He and the circus elephants complete the classic rescue.

• Tarzan Collection Vol. 2 - Triumphs / Desert Mystery / The Amazons / Leopard Woman / Huntress / The Mermaids | DVD | (17/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £35.99

  Beasts roar, danger abounds and Johnny Weismuller swoops into the last 5 of his 12 adventures as film's definitive Tarzan. The vine swinger provedes World War 2 heroics in Tarzan Triumphs and Tarzan's Desert Mystery. Next, he welcomes Jane home and champions a secluded female tribe in Tarzan and the Amazons. A deadly cult proves no match for the jungle lord in Tarzan and the Leopard Woman. And the Ape Man calls elephants to deal with poachers in Tarzan and the Huntress and rescues a pearl-diving community in Tarzan and the Mermaids. What came next? Weissmuller would return to the wilds as Jungle Jim, Johnny Sheffield (Boy) became Bomba the Jungle Boy, Joyce played Jane again in Tarzan's Magic Fountain and Cheetah became the world's oldest chimp, celebrating birthday 74 in 2006. Ungawa!