Tarzan Finds a Son!
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| Tarzan Finds a Son! | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Richard Thorpe |
| Produced by | Sam Zimbalist |
| Written by | Edgar Rice Burroughs (characters) Cyril Hume (screenplay) |
| Starring | Johnny Weissmuller Maureen O'Sullivan Johnny Sheffield Henry Wilcoxon |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| Release date(s) | June 16, 1939 |
| Running time | 82 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Tarzan Escapes |
| Followed by | Tarzan's Secret Treasure |
| IMDb profile | |
Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939) is a Tarzan film based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was the fourth in the MGM Tarzan series to feature Johnny Weissmuller as the "King of the Apes".
[edit] Plot
A plane flying to Cape Town carrying a young couple and their baby, crashes in the jungle. Everyone on the plane dies, except for the baby who is rescued by Cheeta, Tarzan's chimpanzee. Tarzan and Jane adopt the child and name him "Boy". Five years later, a search party comes looking for Boy, because he is the heir to a fortune worth millions. Jane tries to help the search party and Boy go back to civilization, against Tarzan's wishes.
[edit] Trivia
- This was intended to be Maureen O'Sullivan's last appearance as Jane in the series, with her character being killed off by a spear wound (because Maureen O'Sullivan was sick and fed up with the whole Jane role). It was changed at the last minute.
- Johnny Sheffield who played Boy, claims that Weissmuller handpicked him himself and taught him to swim as well.
- Since Tarzan and Jane had no son in 1936 (the date of their previous film) and since the bulk of this plot occurs five years after Boy is found, the date for this film is either 1941 or 1944. Both of these dates conflict with incidents in subsequent films that occurred during World War II.
- Tarzan literally had to "find" a son, because censors would not allow Tarzan and Jane to have a child together because they were not considered legally married.
- Boy in this film was the heir to the Greystoke fortune. In the original Burroughs books Tarzan himself was Lord Greystoke.
