Tarzan et la Reine de la jungle

Original title: Tarzan's Peril

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Lex Barker and Virginia Huston in Tarzan et la Reine de la jungle (1951)

Escaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe.Escaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe.Escaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe.

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Lex Barker

Tarzan

Virginia Huston

Jane

George Macready

Radijeck

Douglas Fowley

Herbert Trask

Glenn Anders

Andrews

Dorothy Dandridge

Melmendi, Queen of the Ashuba

Alan Napier

Commissioner Peters

Frederick O'Neal

King Bulam

Edward Ashley

Conners

Evelyn Pope Burwell

Native Woman
(uncredited)

Buster Cooke

White Hunter in Africa
(uncredited)

Frances Curry

Mother
(uncredited)

Joel Fluellen

Attendant
(uncredited)

Jamel Frazier

Guard
(uncredited)

Wesley Gale

Lead Native
(uncredited)

Chester Jones

Native
(uncredited)

Dave Kashner

Flogger
(uncredited)

Walter Kingsford

Barney
(uncredited)

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Trivia
The company arrived in Africa just before winter set in. The chimps wouldn't perform, so Cheetah's part had to be cut. The area around Mount Kenya was so cloudy that Lex Barker's tan disappeared and he had to use body makeup. The first time Barker showed up in a loin cloth the native extras burst out laughing.

Goofs
53 minutes into the film one of the African tribesman is seen from behind, and on the shield he is holding can be seen the word "TOP", presumably for the extra to hold the prop correctly.

Quotes
Commissioner Peters: An arrogant sort of devil. No respect for his own people and envy of the whites. And he shares the vices of both!

Connections
Featured in Biography: Dorothy Dandridge: Little Girl Lost (1999)

Radijek , a desperate criminal, has escaped from the Mombasa jail. His sworn aim - to murder Tarzan and his mate Jane.

First, he stirs up the belligerent Yorango tribe knowing they will attack the peaceful Ashubs tribe and bring Tarzan swinging through the trees to liberate the innocent natives and their queen, and divert Tarzan from his weapon selling elsewhere ...

Once he thinks Tarzan's dead, he heads to Tarzan's treehouse and threatens Jane, telling her she will have to guide him out of here ... can Tarzan arrive in time to save Jane?

Tarzan certainly experiences some peril as he's put through the paces here as he faces some mean opponents - actually the villainy is less cartoonish and more gritty. And George Macready can certainly do dark and gritty. He's one cold hombre here, one by one despatching his partners in crime (well, one of them survives but the other is shot in the back) and has revenge on his mind - to get Tarzan and Jane. First, he sells guns to a barmy chief. Such characterisation reminded me of Anthony Quayle in Tarzan's Greatest Adventure. Also of note is the knife fight between the Yoranga chief and Tarzan - it's a wild knife fight with Tarzan looking like he's going to lose ...

The plot is quite solid, the story takes its time to build up to the crescendo- there's some humour, courtesy of Cheetah, but limited. It's a vast change in direction to Tarzan and the Slave Girl and Tarzan's Magic Fountain, which were more fantastical. I like these two films as well as Tarzan's Peril. Fantasy and gritty. Variety is the spice of life they say!