New Adventures of Tarzan
Feature film · 70 min · dir. Edward A. Kull
- Action
- Adventure
Synopsis
The New Adventures of Tarzan is a 1935 American film serial in 12 chapters starring Herman Brix. The serial presents a more authentic version of the character than most other film adaptations, with Tarzan as the cultured and well-educated gentleman in the original Edgar Rice Burroughs novels. It was filmed during the same period as the Johnny Weissmuller/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Tarzan films. Film exhibitors had the choice of booking the serial in 12 episodes, the feature film, or the feature film…
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Details
- Director
- Edward A. Kull
- Writer
- Bennett Cohen
- Cinematography
- Edward A. Kull
- Studio
- Burroughs-Tarzan Pictures Inc.
- Released
- 1935-05-21
- Series
- Tarzan (Bruce Bennett) Collection
- Running time
- 70 minutes
Cast & crew
- Edward A. Kull Director
Lewis Sargent
Ashton Dearholt
Bruce Bennett
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · The REAL Tarzan... · RWardMI · 2004-11-10
Not many realize this feature, along with 'Tarzan and the Green Goddess', were produced by E.R. Burroughs, himself. He wanted a screen portrayal of Tarzan as he had written him, a noble intelligent Ape Man/Lord Greystoke, not as Hollywood had made him ("Me Tarzan, you Jane"). And NO Cheetah. Olympic-winning athlete Herman Brix (later known as Bruce Bennet) makes the transition from refined English Lord to savage Lord of the Jungle very convincingly. Both New Adventures and Green Goddess were actually filmed in Guatimala as a theatrical multi-part serial for Saturday matinees, later to be made…
★★★★★ · Bruce Bennett · ubang · 2012-07-20
I just had to chime in and say that Bennett is the epitome of Tarzan. Having read all of the E. R. Burroughs books as a young lad I had Bruce Bennett pictured in my mind having never seen a Tarzan movie. Watch the movie for the treat of seeing Tarzan a Burroughs described him. (Although the literary Tarzan was not as politically correct as the silver screen version)
★★★★ · Lord of the Apes · Sixbluemonkeys · 2007-03-18
A search to find out more about this Tarzan lead me to some interesting facts. Herman Brix only just died in February 2007 at the age of 100! Those Olympic genes certainly paid off. This, in turn lead me to discover E.Burroughs did NOT produce or have anything to do with the making of this film. It was, however, produced by a close friend who had the same vision. Overall, this is a very entertaining film and is especially good paired with The Green Goddess. These two films were actually twelve parts of a serial edited for some theaters into two full length features. This was done at the time…
★★★★ · No Cheeta (who's still alive, BTW) · picfixer · 2010-02-10
Ignore the screwball plot that has Tarzan (Herman Brix a.k.a. Bruce Bennett) off to Guatemala to rescue a French pilot who crashed while flying over stock footage of East Africa. (I told you it was a screwball plot.) The first half of this movie is mostly a bad travel log. In the second half all hell breaks loose with Tarzan battling a ferocious jaguar and a nasty leopard. (Don't ask me how the damn leopard got to Guatemala!) Then he moves on to rescuing babes, and ends up in an extended, single-handed fist fight with about a thousand natives. (Phew!) Brix/Bennett makes a pretty decent…
