Tarzan Triumphs
Tarzan Triumphs is a 1943 adventure film in which Tarzan fights the Nazis. Johnny Weismuller had portrayed the popular Edgar Rice Burroughs character in six films with MetroGoldwynMayer, but this was his first with the producer Sol Lesser at RKO Pictures. Weismuller was reunited with two of his three costars from several of the earlier films, Johnny Sheffield and Cheeta, but Maureen OSullivan was unable to reprise her role as Jane because the franchise switched from MGM to RKO, and OSullivan was an MGM contract player. Instead, Frances Gifford played the princess of the lost city of Palandrya, which is conquered by Germans.
Only when Boy is kidnapped by the Germans does Tarzan shout, Now Tarzan make war Tarzan infiltrates the lost city, destroying a machine gun and defeating the German invaders with his knife and an elephant blitzkrieg. The films final scene has Cheeta speaking into the defeated Germans short wave radio to call Berlin the Germans mistake Cheeta for Adolf Hitler.The U.S. State Department informed Sol Lesser that a Tarzan film would be an ideal way to spread the message of democracys battle against Fascism to the American public. Lessers first RKO Tarzan film had made the Ape Man a symbol of American isolationism. The film was the highest grossing of Lessers Tarzan films. ........
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