Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959) on Netflix
Disguised as natives, mercenaries raid an African village for dynamite and head upriver to reopen a diamond cave. Tarzan gives chase, and bush pilot Angie Loring, downed in the river, joins him.
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Mercenaries disguised as natives have been raiding African villages for supplies. At Mantu their raid goes wrong: the radio operator knows Slade, and Slade shoots him before the group escapes by canoe. The stolen dynamite is meant to reopen a cave where Slade once found rough diamonds. Talking drums call Tarzan to the village, where he can tell the raiders wore disguises. Angie Loring, a bush pilot who put down there because her fuel was low, tells him the dying operator named Slade, and Tarzan starts upriver after the men. The raiders travel in Dino's cabin cruiser with Slade's girlfriend Toni, bickering but set on getting rich. When Angie's plane goes into the river, she swims ashore and joins Tarzan, since his canoe is her only way out.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959)
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Gordon Scott said producers wanted Sean Connery in the next Tarzan film even though his character is killed in this one, but Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman's Dr. No claimed him instead.- With no actor yet replacing Gordon Scott as Tarzan in 1958, the producers signed Theodore B. Sillis to direct in October, and in November Sy Weintraub signed Scott himself to a seven-year deal for the role.
- While Tarzan's Greatest Adventure was in production, MGM made its own Tarzan film, Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959), using remake rights it still held for the 1932 film of the same name.
- The film's take on Tarzan, closer to Edgar Rice Burroughs's articulate and intuitive original, set a new direction for the series, and later entries sent him abroad in Tarzan Goes to India (1962) and Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966).
