Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)

Johnny Weissmuller: Tarzan

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• Tarzan : [inside the smoke-filled Club Moonbeam in New York]  Smell like a Swahili swamp. Why people stay?

  Jane : It's what they call having a good time.

• Tarzan : Boy little Tarzan.

  Jane : And I want him to grow up to be a big Tarzan.

  Tarzan : Tarzan watch Boy.

  Jane : I know you will. I know I shouldn't worry. I know there's no need to worry as long as you're with me. At first, I used to have so many little fears for myself, for Boy. But one by one, you've chased them all away. Wouldn't it be strange if someday I became as brave as you are?

  Tarzan : Jane no need to be brave. Jane beautiful. Jane good.

  Jane : You are my goodness, darling. My strength.

  Tarzan : [pointing]  Jane. Tarzan. Tarzan. Jane.

• Tarzan : [in New York City, referring to the taxi's baggage handler]  Jaconi tribe. Put clothes on him, too.

• Tarzan : White men no longer make safari. Come through sky like vultures.

• [first lines] 

  Boy : Cheetah! What is it?

  Jane : Cheetah must be seeing things. What is it, Tarzan? What is it?

  Tarzan : Uguna. Strange sound in sky. Big. Far off.

  Jane : I don't hear anything.

  Tarzan : Tarzan hear. Cheetah hear. Elephant hear.

  Boy : Now I hear it. Like a great wind coming.

• [last lines] 

  Tarzan : Swim!

• Jane : We're going into places where men's minds are more tangled than the worst underbrush in the jungle, and I'm afraid. More afraid than I've ever been in my life. Everywhere we'll be met with lies and deceit. Your honesty and directness will only be handicaps. It'd break my heart to see your strength caught in the quicksands of civilization. And I'll be the only guide you'll have. Will you follow me? Will you do as I say? I'll try not to fail you.

  Tarzan : Jane lead way. Tarzan follow always.

• Tarzan : Tarzan catch giant bird. Train bird. Boy fly.

  Jane : Good heavens, no! I don't want him hurtling through the sky on a bird's neck. He's daring enough as it is.

• Jane : Tarzan, what were those men like?

  Tarzan : One man bad. Other man funny.

  Jane : And the third man, what was he like?

  Tarzan : Third man make iron bird fly. Maybe good. Understand Tarzan.

  Jane : Oh, I won't be happy until I see that plane flying away in the morning.

• Jane : Tarzan, what is it? What's Cheeta saying?

  Tarzan : Cheeta say Boy gone. In iron bird.

• Jane : You trust me, darling, don't you?

  Tarzan : Tarzan always trust Jane.

• Tarzan : [flying over Manhattan]  Stone jungle.

  Jane : Yes, a man-made jungle.

  Tarzan : Natives live there?

  Jane : Yes, they live and they work there.

  Tarzan : Why?

  Jane : To help them concentrate their efforts. Get things done in a hurry. Save time.

  Tarzan : Save time? Why?

  Jane : Darling, you're asking me a question all the sages haven't been able to answer.

• Jane : Tarzan, you must stay. The tailor has to measure you.

  [to the tailor] 

  Jane : I'm sorry to be so much trouble, but we must get clothes because we're going to New York.

  Tarzan : Jane get clothes. Tarzan better without clothes.

  Jane : Now, darling, you promised. Cheetah, you behave yourself.

• Tarzan : War dance. Where natives?

  Jane : There're are no natives, darling. That's music. It comes out of that little box. It's called a radio.

  Tarzan : Ra-ra-radio? Woman sick. Cry for witch doctor.

  Jane : You should be a critic, darling.

• Tarzan : Jane be boss here.

  Jane : Thank you, darling.

• Tarzan : Teach Boy where to find water when thirsty, where to find food when hungry. Tarzan teach Boy to be strong like lion and happy like bird.

• Tarzan : Wise men need little.

• Tarzan : White man's law lots of words. Jungle law more easy. Man live own life.

• Gould Beaton : Can you read, Tarzan?

  Tarzan : Read?

  Gould Beaton : Yes, read. Read a book. Ever hear of Shakespeare's Hamlet?

  Tarzan : Tarzan read trails in jungle. Read clouds in sky.

• Tarzan : In jungle, men only kill bad animals. In civilization, men kill good men.

• Tarzan : Boy grow up to be brother of sun and friend of rain. Hurt nobody. Want nothing people have. Grow old like cedar tree. Boy will be good man, happy man.

• Tarzan : Aah-eeh-ah-eeh-aaaaaah-eeh-ah-eeh-aaaaah!

  Boy : Aah-eeh-ah-eeh-aaaaaah-eeh-ah-eeh-aaaaah! Aah-eeh-ah-eeh-aaaaaah-eeh-ah-eeh-aaaaah!