TARZAN ONCE MORE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 112, 13 May 1937, Page 21

TARZAN ONCE MORE.

j The best known character of modern I fiction, and the most popular adven--3 ture hero in history, Tarzan is again to i unreel his thrilling jungle life in a [ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture. This i time it is "Tarzan Escapes," and again Johnny Weissmuller is Tarzan and ! again Maureen O'Sullivan is the hero- > inc. With hordes of jungle beasts, • with enough thrills for a dozen pic- , tures, and with a brand new romantic i idea, the new Edgar Rice Burroughs ' adventure yarn takes Tarzan and his i beloved Jane into-the land of the giant : bats where, perils neyer before filmed i are, encountered.' The new production was directed by Richard Thorpe, famed explorer and director of "Last of the Pagans.." Since her last appearance. Kin a Tarzan picture, Miss O'Sullivan has won dramatic triumphs in an un- : broken series of hit pictures, including , "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," in , which she appeared with Norma Stiear- . er and Fredric March; "David Copperfield," "The Thin Man," "Anna Karenina," "The Voice of Bugle Ann," and i numerous others. Prominent in the supporting cast of "Tarzan Escapes" are Benita Hume, recently seen as the; malevolent spy in "Suzy," William Henry, Herbert Mundin, and . John Buckler. Henry, one of the most pro-mising-young, juveniles, on the M.G.M.. lot, plays the role of Jane's"cVusin, whobraves, darkest Africa" to find her andinduce her to return tol civilisation. Mundin adds considerable hilarity:',l in another of his typical cockney characterisations; Buckler is seen, as Major Fry, the explorer, as villainous a character as ever fought his way through an African swamp. Battles with hostile African natives, an eerie encounter with giant bats, Tarzan's fight to release animals captured for menageries, the rescue of the white party from the wild Ganeloni tribesmen, the mad ele-' phant stampede which saves the scouting party, the escape of Tarzan from a cage in which he has been imprisoned, native tortures, a plunge over a cliff, a perilous adventure in a crocodile-in-fested river—these are a few of the many thrill sequences in "Tarzan Escapes." .% .