People in America were kept in ignorance about Africa due to films like Tarzan And The Leopard Women. Even taken at face value the film shows the decline in the series since it left MGM.
When Acquanetta says how her leopard god cult has kept secret from Tarzan all these years no one in any theater this was showing could possibly believe that. After all this was Tarzan and in his jungle you don't belch or toot without him knowing about it. How a whole tribe of leopard cultists kept secret from Tarzan until Edgar Barrier came back from civilization as he sneers it no one could buy into that.
Barrier's character is borrowed liberally from that other RKO classic Gunga Din. He's the guru of the tribe and he does not want to see the civilization of the whites spread. Especially when its in the form of some shapely maiden school teachers. He's going to have his leopard guys hijack the caravan and steal the teachers. It falls to Tarzan to rescue them.
By the way note how Barrier sneers also at the decadence of democracies which the British were as represented by Commissioner Dennis Hoey. A lot of that talk was coming from some recently defeated enemies of said British and their allies. Made Barrier an easy guy to hate.
Acquanetta has a young brother played by Tommy Cook and he's looking to become a full blooded warrior. Only he gets a little thing for Brenda Joyce as Jane. For the only time in the series history Johnny Sheffield as Boy gets an adversary his equal. He needs a little help from Cheta in taking him out.
In fact in this most silly of Tarzan films, Cheta gets to save everybody from the Leopard people. If you care you have to see the film to see how everyone's favorite chimpanzee does it in one of the worst of the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films.
When Acquanetta says how her leopard god cult has kept secret from Tarzan all these years no one in any theater this was showing could possibly believe that. After all this was Tarzan and in his jungle you don't belch or toot without him knowing about it. How a whole tribe of leopard cultists kept secret from Tarzan until Edgar Barrier came back from civilization as he sneers it no one could buy into that.
Barrier's character is borrowed liberally from that other RKO classic Gunga Din. He's the guru of the tribe and he does not want to see the civilization of the whites spread. Especially when its in the form of some shapely maiden school teachers. He's going to have his leopard guys hijack the caravan and steal the teachers. It falls to Tarzan to rescue them.
By the way note how Barrier sneers also at the decadence of democracies which the British were as represented by Commissioner Dennis Hoey. A lot of that talk was coming from some recently defeated enemies of said British and their allies. Made Barrier an easy guy to hate.
Acquanetta has a young brother played by Tommy Cook and he's looking to become a full blooded warrior. Only he gets a little thing for Brenda Joyce as Jane. For the only time in the series history Johnny Sheffield as Boy gets an adversary his equal. He needs a little help from Cheta in taking him out.
In fact in this most silly of Tarzan films, Cheta gets to save everybody from the Leopard people. If you care you have to see the film to see how everyone's favorite chimpanzee does it in one of the worst of the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films.