Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
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| Tarzan's Greatest Adventure | |
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| Directed by | John Guillermin |
| Produced by | Harvey Hayutin Sy Weintraub |
| Written by | Les Crutchfield based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| Starring | Gordon Scott Anthony Quayle Sara Shane Sean Connery Al Mulock Scilla Gabel Niall MacGinnis |
| Music by | Douglas Gamley |
| Distributed by | Solar Films |
| Release date(s) | 1959 |
| Running time | 88min. |
| Language | English |
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Tarzan's Greatest Adventure is a 1959 British film directed by John Guillerman and produced by Sy Weintraub. Unique in many ways, the film features a literate Tarzan portrayed by Gordon Scott, no Jane or Cheeta. Cheeta appears only during one line ("So long, Cheeta"). It also boasts a tense and brilliant script, and two interesting villains played by Anthony Quayle and Sean Connery just before he became famous as the first cinematic James Bond.
This film was the first colour Tarzan filmed entirely in Africa. It also portrayed a grittier, more realistic Tarzan who could be as savage as his opponents but could also speak eloquently and politely to a woman (Sara Shane) who gets involved in the plot.
It should have heralded a whole new direction for Tarzan but instead produced only one sequel, Tarzan the Magnificent, and two follow ups with a different actor, Jock Mahoney, as Tarzan. Mahoney played the villain in Tarzan the Magnificent and inherited the lead in Tarzan Goes to India and Tarzan's Three Challenges.
[edit] Trivia
- Sara Shane's interpretation of the role of Angie was recently recognised by an internet fan e-zine as the "Best Non-Jane in a Tarzan Movie".
- This was Shane's final film. Today she is Director of the Hippocrates Health Centre in Queensland, Australia under her real name, Elaine Hollingsworth.
