***SPOILERS*** Movie with a lot of heart in that to prove oneself in this far-out leopard cult lead by the head of the spotty outfit High Priestess Lea, Acquanetta, you have to kill a enemy and bring his or her heart back to her in order to prove your worthiness in being a member of it. The leopard men have being running around the jungle in their leopard outfits using what looks like steel clawed back-scratchers as weapons and killing anyone who happens to get close to their hangout a cave outside the jungle town of Bugandi.
It's when a survivor of a leopard man attack makes it back alive to Zambezi that Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller, who together with Jane and Boy, Brenda Joyce & Johnny Sheffield, with their pet monkey Cheetha who was their looking for bargains at the local bazaar got involved in all this leopard business. Tarzan realized that the attacks that have been taking place around the town of Bugandi were not that of wild leopards but people who were trying to put the blame on the spotted creatures! That's in order to keep the town from becoming modernized! As we soon find out it's , besides High priestess Lea, the highly educated half Bugandian half Englishman Dr. Lazar, Edger Barrier, who's been organizing these deadly attacks in order to keep his hometown Bugandi pure and native and not corrupted by the evils of modern civilization.
Tarzan does his usual vine swinging and diving act in the movie with Johnny Weissmuller looking a bit too old, at age 41, and somewhat flabby to really be convincing. Getting captured by the leopard men after trying to save four pretty teachers from Zambezi who were kidnapped by the cat people and slated to be sacrificed to the Leopard God it's again,like in almost all the Tarzan movies, the cute and mischievous monkey Cheetha using High Priestess Lea's' leopard claw looking back-scratcher who saved the day by freeing Tarzan just as he was about to be done in, together with Boy Jane and the four teachers, by the leopard men.
***SPOILERS*** What in fact really did in High Priestess Lea and her leopard men was her bratty kid brother Kimba, Tommy Cook, who in trying to prove his worth, by killing an enemy of the clan and bringing back his heart, as a full fledged leopard man failed completely which had him and Dr. Lazer, the second in command of the leopard cult, turn on each other in the movies exciting final sequence. It's then that a freed, by his pet monkey Cheetha, Tarzan did in fact a Samson act by pulling the pillars that were holding up the cave, where the leopard men had their headquarters, down and thus finally putting an end to all this out and out jungle craziness!
It's when a survivor of a leopard man attack makes it back alive to Zambezi that Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller, who together with Jane and Boy, Brenda Joyce & Johnny Sheffield, with their pet monkey Cheetha who was their looking for bargains at the local bazaar got involved in all this leopard business. Tarzan realized that the attacks that have been taking place around the town of Bugandi were not that of wild leopards but people who were trying to put the blame on the spotted creatures! That's in order to keep the town from becoming modernized! As we soon find out it's , besides High priestess Lea, the highly educated half Bugandian half Englishman Dr. Lazar, Edger Barrier, who's been organizing these deadly attacks in order to keep his hometown Bugandi pure and native and not corrupted by the evils of modern civilization.
Tarzan does his usual vine swinging and diving act in the movie with Johnny Weissmuller looking a bit too old, at age 41, and somewhat flabby to really be convincing. Getting captured by the leopard men after trying to save four pretty teachers from Zambezi who were kidnapped by the cat people and slated to be sacrificed to the Leopard God it's again,like in almost all the Tarzan movies, the cute and mischievous monkey Cheetha using High Priestess Lea's' leopard claw looking back-scratcher who saved the day by freeing Tarzan just as he was about to be done in, together with Boy Jane and the four teachers, by the leopard men.
***SPOILERS*** What in fact really did in High Priestess Lea and her leopard men was her bratty kid brother Kimba, Tommy Cook, who in trying to prove his worth, by killing an enemy of the clan and bringing back his heart, as a full fledged leopard man failed completely which had him and Dr. Lazer, the second in command of the leopard cult, turn on each other in the movies exciting final sequence. It's then that a freed, by his pet monkey Cheetha, Tarzan did in fact a Samson act by pulling the pillars that were holding up the cave, where the leopard men had their headquarters, down and thus finally putting an end to all this out and out jungle craziness!