Tarzan and His Mate (1934) on Netflix
Harry Holt returns to Africa with an ivory expedition and his partner, Martin Arlington. Tarzan alone knows the way to the elephant burial ground, and Holt wants Jane to return to London.
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Tarzan and Jane share a jungle home with Cheeta, their chimpanzee. Harry Holt returns to Africa with his partner, Martin Arlington, at the head of a big safari of bearers, heading for an elephant burial ground. Holt had been there before, guided by Tarzan, on the journey when he first met Jane. He offers her dresses and modern devices from civilization and presses her to come home with him; she chooses Tarzan, but agrees to persuade him to guide the safari. Tarzan calls an elephant, and Arlington realizes the animals could haul far more ivory. When Tarzan understands what they mean to do, he refuses to lead them, and the partners, whose whole investment is in the trip, are frantic to press on.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
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- Three versions of the film's 'underwater ballet' went out to different territories, Jane clothed, Jane topless, and Jane fully nude, until April 24, 1934, when all prints in all territories were ordered changed.
- The new Production Code Office objected to Maureen O'Sullivan's scant costume, and in April 1934 Joseph Breen of the MPPDA reported to Will Hays that the film had been rejected for shots in which 'the girl was shown completely in the nude.'
- The National Socialist Party banned the film in Germany on the grounds that it showed a Nordic man in brutal surroundings, even though it was a huge success internationally.
- After 3 1/2 weeks of shooting, the first unit was shut down because Cedric Gibbons had shot excess footage and costs were spiraling; when filming resumed, Gibbons was no longer director, with Jack Conway as dialogue director and James C. McKay directing animal sequences.
- Rod La Rocque was pulled from the cast in late August 1933 and replaced as Martin Arlington by Paul Cavanagh, which a Hollywood Reporter news item attributed to miscasting.
- Johnny Weissmuller rode a black rhinoceros named Mary, imported from the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg, in a first for film, doing the scene himself and taking only minor scrapes from her rough hide.
- For the crocodile wrestling scene the filmmakers used a mechanical Nile crocodile fitted with nigrosine dye sacks to simulate blood.
- An unedited print of the film was found in the MGM vaults and released only in 1986, after Ted Turner bought the studio's pre-1986 film library.
