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Binding: DVD
EAN: 0883316166819
Format: NTSC
Label: RKO RADIO
Languages: EnglishUnknown
Manufacturer: RKO RADIO
Publisher: RKO RADIO
Release Date: August 04, 2009
Running Time: 79 minutes
Studio: RKO RADIO
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Only beautiful Dorothy Dandridge and handsome Lex Barker in his flapping micro-mini skirt make this film worth watching. Sparks fly in their brief scenes alone but Hollywood was too racist in the 50's to let nature take its course, so Plain Jane gets the beef.
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While I always liked this movie, I want to know why the best Tarzan movies ever made, The Gordon Scott color Tarzan movies, specifically, "Tarzan's Greatest Adventure" and "Tarzan the Magnificent" as well as Jock Mahoney's "Tarzan Goes to India" and "Tarzan's Three Challenges" have not been released on DVD? It has been acknowledged among those who have a lot of movie knowledge this these were generally the best Tarzan movies ever made and if they were ever to be released on DVD (Blu-Ray please?) they would make the companies who put them out a fortune. While I recorded these movies off of AMC when they had their Tarzan movie marathon about 14 years ago, I would still love to have cleaned up, improved sound and all the extras they could hold DVDs of these movies, as I am sure many others would. So who is in charge of all this? Are you listening? I hope so.
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Before I review this edition of "Tarzan's Peril", let me give you all the negatives; the Warner Archive Collection at the WB site sells this title for nearly $6 less than Amazon; there are no special features, subtitles, nor even a scene index; the encrypting process prevents this DVD from playing on any DVD player with recording capabilities (which means you probably won't be able to play this on your PC).
While the Lex Barker 'Tarzan' films were run frequently on TV in the 1950s and 1960s, his third, "Tarzan's Peril" was only rarely aired, as the film is certainly the most brutal and violent of all his outings! Foreshadowing Gordon Scott's seminal "Tarzan's Greatest Adventure", the story, of Tarzan's manhunt of a ruthless killer he'd initially helped capture, has the novelty of some location scenes shot in Africa, and the added pleasure of the legendary Dorothy Dandridge in one of her rare screen appearances, as the young queen of a beleagered tribe. Sinister George Macready ("Gilda") is certainly a worthy adversary for Tarzan, with motives of revenge against both Tarzan and Jane (Virginia Huston, a voluptuous actress with a 50s hairdo, in her only 'Tarzan' appearance). Other notables in the cast include Alan ("Alfred") Napier, in his second Barker outing, this time as a retiring jungle commissioner; veteran actor Douglas Fowley, as Macready's bearded, gunrunning partner; and Frederick O'Neal as the chubby, sleazy ruler of the tribe warring against Dandridge.
The film is unrepentent in it's bloodletting (even Cheeta gets in the act!), and isn't one I'd share with younger children without being present to explain the context. While it deserves credit for offering a bit more reality than previous Barker outings (with black tribes, for a change), some stereotyping is also present.
All in all, a most unusual entry in Lex Barker's 'reign' as the Ape Man!
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For those that liked Lex Barker as Tarzan and want the 5 Tarzan DVDs that Warner Archives has available, I advise that you save yourself some big money and buy the set for $49.95 directly from Warner Archives Shop.
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