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Linda Christian and Johnny Weissmuller in Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)

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Tarzan and the Mermaids

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  • Palanth, the High Priest: If my people knew anyone posed as Balu, they would destroy him.
  • Tarzan: If people know Balu a man, they destroy you!
  • Benji: Tarzan go fishing, catch mermaid, eh!
  • Luana - Mara's Mother: Mara, my child, my love for you is deeper than the great waters.
  • Mara: I love Tiko. And for love of me, he was banished to the outer world. I will not be forced into an unholy marriage with Balu.
  • Luana - Mara's Mother: Mara, child, a mother does not force her daughter to do wrong.
  • Luana - Mara's Mother: Take care, Mara. You cannot defy the will of a living God.
  • Mara: There is no living God.
  • Jane: As usual, Benji's late again.
  • Tarzan: Benji talk fast, walk slow.
  • Mara: For you.
  • Jane: Oh, a black pearl. Oh, it's exquisite, Mara. But I can't accept it.
  • Mara: Oh, I am sorry it doesn't please you.
  • Jane: Oh no, Mara. It's beautiful! I mean I can't accept it because of it's great value.
  • Mara: That's strange. You see value in a pearl. I see only beauty. Since it has value to you and not to me, it should be yours.
  • Benji: [singing] The womens all losing their dignity, Over magnificent Benji...
  • Varga - Pearl Trader: Our arrangement has worked out well, my friend. You have power and I have pearls.
  • Palanth, the High Priest: Mara's kind of troublesome. She's always had too much curiosity.
  • Benji: [singing] Oh, most beautiful mermaid, Close to me, Pray, how did you get here, From the depths of the sea? And if there be others as lovely as you, I think I'd be happy, With all of them too...
  • Tarzan: No. Pearl not earned.
  • Mara: It is not Mara's gift, but the gift of the great waters. Please take it.
  • Jane: Stay here, Tiko. I may be able to help you.
  • British Inspector-General: This tale of yours, Benji, how much of it is true?
  • Benji: All of it. This time I do not exaggerate, Inspector.
  • British Inspector-General: But, Benji, a mermaid?
  • Benji: Ah, there, I might have stretched my imagination just a little bit. But the girl, she was so beautiful.
  • Tarzan: Tiko free. Mara go.
  • Commissioner: I thought this was going to be a trading expedition. But now, I'm afraid, it's going to be an adventure.
  • Palanth, the High Priest: This island is taboo. You have defied our laws.
  • Benji: [singing] When you hear me, You'd agree, That the music I play, Isn't meant for a symphony, But, darling, I'll bring my music, Wherever you are, Played on my heartstring, Bling dada bling bling... .
  • Jane: Tarzan say he make dive.
  • Jane: So, Tarzan will make dive.
  • Jane: It's Tarzan up to one of his tricks.
  • Tiko - Mara's Fiancé: Do you joust, Benji?
  • Benji: I'm the champion jouster of all Nyaga. Ask all the women.
  • Tarzan: Benji come, sometime.
  • Jane: I wonder why he doesn't come?
  • Jane: Come, Mara.
  • Narrator: There dwells a cult of strange people known as Aquaticans. They are a hardy people, thriving on the bounty of the sea. Happy in the enjoyment of their exotic existence.
  • Narrator: Through the hocus-pocus of this High Priest, he makes the god Balu move as if alive.

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