This ¨Tarzan En La Gruta Del Oro¨ is a regular Tarzan movie with emotion , adventures , tough battles between the young Amazons and the evil prospectors , underwater fights , quicksands , rapid streams and marvelous outdoors . It deals with group of nasty men are looking for the location of a valuable grotto , ¨The Golden cave¨, a secret cave whose place only knows the Queen of the Amazon women . The Amazons are threatened and the Queen , then , relies on Tarzán (Steve Hawkes , and he didn't speak Spanish language , being dubbed) the position of the ostentous cave . Meanwhile , Tarzan saves the daughter (Kitty Swan) of the Queen from some cruel natives . As Tarzan helps the Amazons defeat two hunters (Jesús Puente , Luis Marin) who wish to take over a sacred gold treasure from the women's tribe . Later on , Tarzan is wounded but he is saved by an old prospector (Antonio Casas) , while his daughter (Krista Nell) attempts to find her father . Soon after , an African tribe along with the band of villains decide to attack the Amazons and discover the lavish cave in a hard entry by swimming underwater . But Tarzan doesn't take kindly the threat and executes against the evil-doers an extreme lesson .
In the film there are silly nasties , gorgeous Amazon girls dressed in in prehistorical furs , drunk Garimpeiros , extensive views of the Central America jungle, and many other things . The movie is dubiously faithful to Edgar Rice Borroughs story . It contains noisy action , sensational adventures , many angry natives , ominous white hunters , several enjoyable underwater scenes starred by Steve Hawkes and Kitty Swam , as well as wonderful outdoors from Surinam , Spain and Florida . Embarrassing and kiddie screenplay by Santiago Moncada , a known as well as prolific novelist , Screenwriter and playwright who wrote ¨La Campana Del Infierno¨ , ¨Corrupción De Chris Miller¨ and ¨Gorilas a Todo Ritmo¨ also starred by another peculiar Tarzan .
The film is lousily performed by Steve Hawkes , born in Eastern Europe , the Croatian Steve Hawkes (aka Hucks) emigrated to America as a teenager to pursue an acting career , citing Johnny Weissmuller as a childhood influence , though his career had sparse glory . He played a Tarzan-type role in a series of Spanish-language movies , as this one and ¨Tarzan Y El Arco Iris¨ (this one filmed on location in Colombia , Florida , Spain) , both of them shot by horror expert Manuel Caño (The swamp of the ravens , Voodoo Black Exorcist) . In Spain his character was referred to as "Tarzan" , but when they were released in English-language territories they directly avoided mentioning the Tarzan name , instead referring to Hawkes' character as ¨Zak¨ or "Zan" to avoid copyright foes . In 1971 he played the lead in the much-loved exploitation movie Blood Freak (1972) , in which he turns into a monster turkey . In the mid-'70s he was badly burned -along with his mate Kitty Swam- in an on-set accident (shooting Tarzan Y Arco Iris) , putting an end to his failed acting career and staying in Florida . Now completely retired , he runs an animal sanctuary out of Miami , a menagerie with a lot of wildlife ; however , being recently closed for a getaway of a dangerous Bengal tiger . This apocryphal Tarzan dressed in leopard , including a rocker lookalike style , long sideburns , like a bouncer and a special image belonging more a gay magazine than a Tarzan movie . Here the producers took the production budget and fled . Rating : 4.5/10 . Average Tarzan movie , though , subsequently , become a ¨Cult movie¨ for some Frikis aficionados to these kinds of weird products .
