“TARZAN TRIUMPHS”

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 278, 21 August 1944, Page 3

“TARZAN TRIUMPHS”

Woll-ttmed for the school holidays, ’‘Tarzan Triumphs” (State) should tract crowded bouses of children during the coining week. The film certainly deserves such audiences —there Is plenty or good fast action, some excellent animal seq.uenees, aud right triumphs satisfyingly over might at the end. Tho familiar Edgar Rice Burroughs characters arc there —Tarzan, Tarzan s son, “Boy," and, in the absence of Maureen O’Sullivan, Tarzan’s traditional mate. Frances Gifford portrays one of those exceptionally attractive jungle princesses, found, alas, only in pictures. To larzan s peaceful jungle comes war, in the. term ox an airborne Nazi detachment seeking rubber aud other raw materials irom the hidden citv. The simple natives, asking only to be left in peace, welcome them, and treat them with kindness, till the visitors show their true natures, and return evil for good with monotonous regularity. In spite of the pleadings of Hie beautiful princess, all this leaves Tarzan untouched, till bis own jungle peace is threatened, when he quickly routs tho invader—not one being left aiivc. Johnny Weissmuller , more muscular than ever, continues his tree-climbing, rock-jumping career as Tarzan, with the attractive youngster Johnny .Sheffield as his son. but Hie star of the film is the pet monkey, Chita. Her performance is unfailingly entertaining and enjoyable, whether she is coyly apologizing for some piece of mischief, dancing with positively fiendish glee at the discomfiture of (he Nazis, or heroically climbing an almost, smooth wall to rescue Tarzan himself when he is temporarily captured. Chita concludes the film with an imitation of Hitler which is much more lifelike than the Fuehrer himself. .