Montage - Tarzan's Revenge (1938)

PLEASE READ THIS - This clip was uploaded to Youtube specifically to embed in my web page abut this film:
http://terrororstralis.com/films/colour/38a.htm

"Tarzan's Revenge" was the second Tarzan film made by producer Sol Lesser, who would eventually make fifteen Tarzan pictures. Lesser's first Tarzan film was "Tarzan the Fearless" from 1933 which atarred Olympic swimming star Buster Crabbe. This time the role of Tarzan was played by Glen Morris, the 1936 Olympic decathlon champion. His female lead was Eleanor Holm, an Olympic backstoke champion from 1928 and 1932. The film also starred George Barbier as Eleanor's father and Hollywood gossip columnist, Hedda Hopper, as Eleanor's mother. The film was directed by D Ross Lederman.

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[sammydavisjrsr]

It's a shame people like YOU don't differentiate between race and nationality. Maybe because you harpsicords think they're the same. Soak your heads and quit with the propaganda.

[pwgr2000]

Sorry, what propaganda am I disseminating? Do you disagee with the idea that the human race was more racist in the past than it is now?

[toninhomalta]

raridade com era as coissa de antigamente muito mas bem feito meu!!!

[pwgr2000]

You are correct. Racism towards foreign cultures was widespread among white populations in the first half of the 20th Century when Burroughs was writing his book and his writings merely expressed the ideas that were widespread in the culture of the day. However, what this opinion does is confirm that racism was present in the novels, which is the viewpoint you were denying in your first comment: " I never thought the Tarzan books were especially racist."

[fatibel42]

@pwgr2000 I wish these comment boxes were longer. What I should have said was I never thought Tarzan - the character - was particularly racist. It's been a few years but I found him mostly indifferent to everyone except Jane and possibly the frenchman whose name escapes me at the moment.

The description of Japanese as monkey jabber may be a slur, but it may also be a writer's description of hearing a foreign language the first time. I doubt Burroughs was very different from others of his time.

[pwgr2000]

The books do contain some unfortunate racist stuff. In "Tarzan and the Foreign Legion" Burroughs referred to the Japanese language as "monkey jabber".

Associate Professor of English Jason Haslam, who edited a new edition of the novel, wrote: “The novel is simply racist. There are no ifs, ands or buts about it. If you revisit Tarzan of the Apes, what strikes you first is its brutal stereotypes of Africans and a plot fueled by sensational African explorers’ tales and absurd racial theories."

[fatibel42]

@pwgr2000 I always enjoyed the contrast between his practical, animalistic sensibilities and his intellect. By the end of the first book he spoke ape, English and French.

He could also be self-sacrificing. He lied about to let Jane off the hook when he thought she loved another man ("My mother was an ape.")

BTW, I never thought the Tarzan books were especially racist. Tarzan was as indifferent to the black Africans as to the whites. Some other characters were less egalitarian.

[bobsmith0247]

@pwgr2000 I agree with you you are so correct Sir!!:)

[ysbaddaden2003]

@pwgr2000

I would say that's true, as long as he was under the influence of Jane. There was a part in the first book where she expressed curiosity about a locket he always wore. She took it and opened it, which he never tried to do. She saw photos of his parents and saw the resemblance. He indicated he wanted her to keep it. Since he didn't speak to her, she kissed it to show acceptance. and then copying her, ape-like, he kissed it in her hand, and she could then picture a gentleman.

[pwgr2000]

One of the best descriptions I have ever read of Burroughs' noble hero. Very sobering.

Of course, the thing to keep in mind is that he was a lot more than that. In other words, he wasn't just a brute, but an exceedingly brave, and sometimes even gentle, individual.