The person I liked best in the vintage Tarzan pictures, was not Tarzan -- or even Cheeta -- but Jane -- and most especially when she was played by Maureen O'Sullivan or Brenda Joyce. Even when impersonated by Johnny Weissmuller, the phlegmatic Tarzan did not interest me greatly, so I'm afraid I'm not an ardent fan of Mike Henry either. This is the last and best of Henry's three Tarzan entries. (The others, "Tarzan and the Valley of Gold" and "Tarzan and the Great River" were both directed by Robert Day). Obviously inspired by Weissmuller's "Tarzan Finds a Son", this entry benefits from its action-packed story and its exotic Brazilian locations. The actors are competent and it's exciting to see both Mike Henry and young Steve Bond actually do most of their own stuntwork, The one thing I didn't like was that the director was over-inclined to use TV-style close-ups, although oddly countering this approach, he often thrillingly uses the anamorphic dimensions of the Panavision screen most effectively.
Review of Tarzan and the Jungle Boy
