Product: Tarzan (4 DVD) (UK PAL Region 0)
Rating: 2.0
If your not a collector - forget it!
Even though I am 55 years old all the "Offically Great" Tarzan movies were made before I was born. Yes I do own this set that I picked up for about 3 or 4 bucks at a discount joint just for the Elmo Lincoln 1918 "Tarzan of the Apes". The rest of these are nothing more then fill-ins of a number of off-beats that played the Big T over the years. In my youth Tarzan movies were always on TV, mostly on Sundays. In those days only one person was recognized as the real Tarzan...OK class lets say it togeather..."Johnny Weismuller." I have both the MGM and the RKO DVD sets. As many know Johnny played Tarzan from 1932 to 1948 (after that he busted on the scene as "Jungle Jim")...and yes he was the best. The MGM efforts are outstanding."Tarzan and his Mate" was and still is the finest Tarzan movie ever made and well worth seeing, many parts of the movie were shot on location in Africa and taken from another MGM classic "Trader Horn". In 1939 I could never understand how a movie like "Gone with the Wind" could win the years' Academy Award over a movie like "Tarzan Finds A Son" one of the real Weismuller classics. Talking about classics "Tarzan's New York Adventure" broke the box offices but also ended the years of MGM doing any more Tarzan movies as WWII was about to break out and Maureen O'Sullivin (The only real Jane)went back to England to be with her husband before he entered the was against Hitler!If you want the best Tarzan movies then the MGM set is what you should get, not this sorry set. Some trivia... how many knew that it was Johnny Eck the half boy from the movie "Freaks" who had no legs and therefore walked on his hands that played the prehistoric freaky bird seen walking in the jungle in the Weismuller classic "Tarzan Escapes.""Enjoy" Joe Kopeck