- Tarzan Finds a Son!
Infobox Film | name=Tarzan Finds a Son!
director =Richard Thorpe
producer =Sam Zimbalist
writer =Edgar Rice Burroughs (characters)Cyril Hume (screenplay)
starring =Johnny Weissmuller Maureen O'Sullivan Johnny Sheffield Henry Wilcoxon
distributor =MGM
released =June 16 ,1939
country = USA
runtime = 82 min.
language = English
imdb_id = 0032007
preceded_by = "Tarzan Escapes "
followed_by = "Tarzan's Secret Treasure ""Tarzan Finds a Son!" (1939) is a
Tarzan film based on the character created byEdgar Rice Burroughs . It was the fourth in theMGM "Tarzan" series to featureJohnny Weissmuller as the "King of the Apes".Plot
A plane flying to
Cape Town carrying a young couple and their baby, crashes in the jungle. Everyone on the plane dies, except for the baby who is rescued byCheeta , Tarzan'schimpanzee . Tarzan and Jane adopt the child and name him "Boy". Five years later, a search party comes looking for Boy, because he is the heir to a fortune worth millions. Jane tries to help the search party and Boy go back to civilization, against Tarzan's wishes.Trivia
*This was intended to be
Maureen O'Sullivan 's last appearance as Jane in the series, with her character being killed off by a spear wound (because Maureen O'Sullivan was sick and fed up with the whole Jane role). It was changed at the last minute.*
Johnny Sheffield who played Boy, claims that Weissmuller handpicked him himself and taught him to swim as well.*Since Tarzan and Jane had no son in 1936 (the date of their previous film) and since the bulk of this plot occurs five years after Boy is found, the date for this film is either 1941 or 1944. Both of these dates conflict with incidents in subsequent films that occurred during
World War II .*Tarzan literally had to "find" a son, because censors would not allow Tarzan and Jane to have a child together because they were not considered legally married.
*Boy in this film was the heir to the Greystoke fortune. In the original Burroughs books Tarzan himself was Lord Greystoke.
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*imdb title|id=0032007|title=Tarzan Finds a Son
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