TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER

Movie trailer from 1967 with Mike Henry as Tarzan.Mike, a former line backer made three Tarzan movies but is probably best known for his role in Smokey and the bandit.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• TARZAN
• MIKE
• HENRY
• WEISSMULLER
• LEX
• BARKER

[eyaaah]

Mike Henry was a 6'3" former football player. He had a well sculpted body. probably one of the best Tarzan physiques ever

[jhrunion]

when i was a kid mike henry WAS tarzan! ron ely was a big disappointment on tv!

[leftyguns221]

Tarzan and the great river was great! Brought me back in time! Keep posting videos like that. We NEED more of them...

[htrrz]

@fyunchclick Do you know where the movie was filmed? Tarzan and the Jungle Boy seemed to shot at the same location? The first 8 shows of the TV series were shot in the same area also, then moved to Mexico due to weather.

[fyunchclick]

@htrrz thanks! as I said I was a kid, then after forty years or so things get a bit fuzzy ! But we found it funny anyway, the Mountain in the background is still there, better known as "Pedra da Gávea" (stone of the "crow's nest"[ the lookout place on a sailing ship]), some 3 thousand miles from the Amazon...

[htrrz]

@johnrunion In the book Tarzan of the Movies reference is made to producer Sy Weintraub was "looking for a young Burt Lancaster for the role", not Lancaster, Lancaster a former Trapeze artist sprung into stardom qucikly and by 1960 had won a academy award. IT was the type well spoken, tall, handsome, muscular, see the films like His Majesty O" Keefe, Jim Thorpe, Trapeze and see a very muscular Lancaster.

[johnrunion]

@htrrz interesting. thanks. i agree william smith was always in shape it seemed. thanks again. i greatly appreciate it.

[htrrz]

@johnrunion In a magazine article I read some years ago, William Smith stated he turned down the role due to leg development was not that good in his own idea, other words his upper body over shadowed his lower he thought, but in ealry Daniel Boone shows Smith played indians on two shows and his leg development looked fine, but in his own words it was his legs, and there was no time to build them up, Ron Ely who was to play a villian on the TV show was moved into the lead.

[htrrz]

@fyunchclick There was no Jane in this film, the female lead was a doctor in the story.

[internautaglobal]

This lion looks like a lioness...

[fyunchclick]

I was a kid when I watched this movie on TV and found it hilarious when T. , to quench Jane's thrist just put his hand on a high grass bush, grabbed a "jaca" (big tropical fruit, found on trees 20 to 50 feet hight, very common in Rio de Janeiro, brought from India by its former portuguese settlers; very edible, delicious, but with a thick pulp and BIG seeds [2x1 ", average!]), cut it in half, and give it to J. telling her :Drink It ! Otherwise a very entertaining movie !

[TheBandit77TransAm]

"daddy........the top came off"

"nooooooo shit."