Tarzan and the Huntress
Tarzan and the Huntress 1947 is an adventure film starring Johnny Weissmuller in his eleventh outing as Tarzan. Brenda Joyce makes the third of five appearances as Jane and Johnny Sheffield marks his eighth and final appearance as Boy. Patricia Morison and Barton MacLane costar. The film was produced by Sol Lesser and Kurt Neumann, written by Jerry Gruskin and Rowland Leigh based on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs and directed by Kurt Neumann. It was released on April 5, 1947.
In a subplot, Oziri Ted Hecht, nephew to King Farrod, colludes with Weir to allow him to trap more animals than bargained for. He also has Weirs men kill King Farrod and his son, Prince Suli Maurice Tauzin, in order for him to take over the throne. Farrod is shot in the back and killed, and Suli is thrown into a pit full of crocodiles, but, unknown to all watching, he lands on a hidden ledge and is knocked unconscious.Boy Johnny Sheffield trades two lion cubs to the trappers for a flashlight. When Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller finds out, he returns the flashlight, retrieves the cubs, and calls all the animals from King Farrods land across the river to his part of the jungle. When the hunters begin trapping on his side of the river, Tarzan and Boy sneak into their camp at night, take their guns and hide them in a cave behind a waterfall. They then begin to systematically release all the trapped animals from their cages. ........
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