Tarzan and Boy joyfully welcome Jane back to Africa from her stay in London. Tarzan knows where the city is located but is a friend of the Amazons and refuses to share that with anyone. garykmcd, After a brief hiatus from the series, the character of Jane returns now in the form of the statuesque Brenda Joyce. Boy and the party are captured by the Amazons, and their queen declares that in lieu of the death penalty for invading their city, they will all be forced to work the rest of their lives in the Palmyrian quarries with the other men they keep for labor. The Hollywood Reporter in August 8, 1944 announced that director Kurt Neumann was on the lookout for 48 tall, athletic women to portray Amazons in the next Tarzan … 103. A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it. Good dose of adventure as you'd expect from the Johnny Weissmuller era of Edgar Rice Burroughs fabled character. The ape man's (Johnny Weissmuller) son, Boy (Johnny Sheffield), leads greedy Europeans to a valley of Amazons. Tarzan's jungle home, and his family, Jane and Boy, are threatened by men greedy for gold. As WWII rages on, a group of Nazi paratroopers land on the hidden city of Palandria to exploit its wealth, and they start taking hostages. When Henderson objects, Ballister kills him, then fatally knifes the woman who released them. Brenda Joyce plays Jane, in the first of her five appearances in the role, and Johnny Sheffield makes his sixth appearance as Boy. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. Henry Stephenson and Maria Ouspenskaya co-star. The movie was produced by Sol Lesser and Kurt Neumann, written by John Jacoby and Marjorie L. Pfaelzer and directed by Kurt Neumann. Brenda Joyce portrayed Jane in five Tarzan films, four opposite Johnny Weissmuller and one opposite Lex Barker. Tarzan comes to the rescue. Jane turned and saw the Amazon women swimming with remarkable precision and coordination considering there were piranhas and crocodiles in the jungle river. A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He returns the Amazons' treasure in exchange for Boy's freedom. It has been used in the original ERB books as well as numerous Tarzan comics and films. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Tarzan meets a feral woman named Dorrae who can also communicate with animals like Tarzan does and lives in the jungles with the lions Ola and Utu who have raised her since her childhood. Was this review helpful to you? With Jane still away for the war effort, Tarzan and Boy set off to retrieve rare medicinal herbs, only to run into an American messenger, Nazi spies, and the mysterious desert's treacherous fauna and flora. Tarzan and the Amazons is a 1945 film and the ninth film in ther film series starring Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. As a spate of leopard attacks causes panic, a sceptical Tarzan joins a hunting expedition, only to face a pagan cult of Leopard-God worshippers and their fiendish High-Priestess. 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The basic plot to Tarzan and the Amazons is OK, but for the first quarter I thought it was going to be more about Tarzan and his family encountering and dealing with the Amazons.Instead the tired old “white men safari” shows up again and with it all the same plot points we’ve seen before. Tarzan knows where the city is located but is a friend of the Amazons and refuses to share that with anyone. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/tarzan-and-the-amazons/8d6kgwzj5rzl TARZAN AND THE AMAZONS (1945) Johnny Weissmuller (Tarzan), Brenda Joyce (Jane), Johnny Sheffield (Boy), Henry Stephenson (Sir Guy Henderson, the Archeologist), Maria Ouspenskaya (Amazon Queen), Barton MacLane (Ballister), Donald Douglas (Anders), Steven Geray (Brenner), J.M. Tarzan refuses, but Boy, believing he is aiding the advancement of science, is duped into guiding them there. Add the first question. 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