TARZAN'S NEW YORK ADVENTURE
M.G.M.)
N which Tarzan Weismuller, accompanied by Mate Maureen and Cheetah the Almost Human, climbs down
trom his Alirican plateau, crams himself into a double-breasted suit, and descends into "the quicksands of civilisation, those places where man’s ideas are more tangled than the worst undergrowth of the jungle." I am quoting Mate, whose vocabulary when addressing monosyllabic spouse tends, for some peculiar reason, to become flowery with metaphor. The reason for the descent of the Noble Savage is that bad men have invaded the Garden of Tarzan in an aeroplane looking for lions and have kidnapped Boy. (Mr. and Mrs, Tarzan have still only one child, you'll notice, and not their own either, I really think they should read some of the opinions on Pages 4 and 5). Assisted by a bagful of gold nuggets from them thar African hills and by the imperturbable English aplomb of a Resident Commissioner on the Coast, they arrive without undue mishap in the jungles of New York, where Boy is making a fortune for a wicked circus-proptietor by exhibiting his natural talent as an animal-trainer. Before the reunited happy family can escape from the perils of civilisation back to simple savagery, Tarzan is compelled to break a dozen or so laws (including that of gravity), and as a last resort, has to call on all the elephants in New York (I had no idea there were so many), to lend a trunk. Oh, well, if a film’s going to be silly, it might as well make a job of it, and this isn’t bad fun at that, if you still have a taste for the serial-story type of Hairbreadth Escape, -_
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 207, 11 June 1943, Page 10
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281TARZAN'S NEW YORK ADVENTURE New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 207, 11 June 1943, Page 10
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